The week here has
been really good! On Monday night, we had a meeting with President and Sister
Tateoka. We were talking about MLC for the next day and what should be
discussed. President felt really strongly that we should focus on breaking down
the online proselyting piece by piece. We watched some of the new District 3
training videos and the ideas started to flow very fast. It was definitely
inspired and revelatory! Then we had the MLC on Tuesday, which went really
really well. What Elder Patterson and I helped with was training on how to use
facebook in online proselyting. President thought the MLC went extremely well,
so we were really excited about that!
On Wednesday, we
had a really good lesson with Chris. He is a recent convert since July. We
talked a lot about obedience. He has really seen since his baptism how
obedience has blessed his life. And he is so aware that it is Heavenly Father
who is blessing him in his life. It is really cool to watch. That night, we had
a lesson with Camille and Brian. Camille was baptized in September, and Brian
is her husband who is starting to learn more. We watched the Joseph Smith:
Prophet of the Restoration video with them and they loved it! It has been
awesome to see the way that Camille has been a light to all of those around
her.
One of the coolest
thing that we have been seeing is the softness of the hearts of the young
people here in Newberg. We are teaching a family who has a 10 year old son. The
10 year old sat in on our entire lesson last week and was pretty interested and
participated. This week, we helped him access the Book of Mormon stories book.
We gave it to him on Thursday, and by Saturday he had already read 8 chapters!
That was so cool to see. The Spirit has been touching his heart as he reads and
it has helped him have a desire to learn more. Another kid that we are
teaching, Anthony, is 13. We have taught him for a couple of weeks now. We gave
him a Book of Mormon stories book as well and he has been reading it a ton! His
parents have been okay with us teaching him, but not really open yet. On
Saturday, we planned on calling him around 345 to make sure he would be able to
come to church. We totally forgot to, until about 845! So we called him then
and asked. He said that he could, so we were kind of scrambling trying to
figure out who might be able to take him, but his dad was with him and his dad
said that he would take him! So on Sunday, him and his dad both came to church!
That was really cool. Anthony stayed the entire 3 hours and was really welcomed
by the Deacons Quorum. The Deacons Quorum President has been so helpful in
fellowshipping and friend Anthony. I think it is amazing the way that Heavenly
Father works. It is definitely cool to see.
Last night, we had
another cool meeting with President and Sister Tateoka. One of the coolest
things that I have been able to be a part of here in Newberg is being able to
see the process of receiving revelation. Yesterday was another testimony
builder of receiving revelation, and specifically how inspired President is. It
is truly amazing.
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