This week was a little depressing with the seeming lack of appointments, and the torrential amounts of rain. We still taught quite a few lessons, but it just seemed different. I do have a couple of really awesome things to report though, on Thursday we had a lesson with Joey, and we taught her the Plan of Salvation. She asked a bunch of good questions, and we were able to help her understand. She readily accepted everything once she understood. We asked her if she would be willing to be baptized, and not only did she say yes, but she asked what she would need to do before it happened. Right now, her only hold up is that she is not married. They have plans to marry, but were waiting on her divorce to finalize, that's now done, and now they are talking about a date. Once we get a date for marriage, we can set a date for baptism.
Friday night we met with the Smiths, and had another great lesson with them. We taught the Restoration, which is always a little tough for kids, we repeated a lot, and kept it simple. To illustrate the apostasy, and the need for restoration we played the restoration game. The kids and the parents loved it. We had great participation in the lesson.
Saturday night I had a cool experience. I won't go into detail, because it is pretty special, but the basis of it is I have a stronger testimony. It was an experience where I poured out my soul in prayer, and He poured out His Spirit upon me. Sunday as I fasted, I felt especially close to the Spirit. That day, we went out with brother Blanchard, to see Mindy Jo. Apparently she has someone living in her home that wants to be baptized. As we met with her, she told us the background information, and you could feel the darkness come into the room. He thinks that he is possessed, and that the demon that is with him is trying to kill Mindy. He wants to be baptized as soon as possible so that he can get it out of his life. I'm not sure whether he is really possessed or not, but the three of us agreed when we left that there is definitely a darkness in the home. The only ray of light is the children there, whenever they came into the room, the whole place lightened up. Hopefully we can help to bring the Spirit into the home. I have a strange feeling about the situation though...We are going to talk with our bishop tonight, because apparently there is some background information that may be helpful in dealing with the situation. We will seek his guidance and counsel about how to proceed.
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Homemade pizza sounds good. Friday night we met with the Smiths, and had another great lesson with them. We taught the Restoration, which is always a little tough for kids, we repeated a lot, and kept it simple. To illustrate the apostasy, and the need for restoration we played the restoration game. The kids and the parents loved it. We had great participation in the lesson.
Saturday night I had a cool experience. I won't go into detail, because it is pretty special, but the basis of it is I have a stronger testimony. It was an experience where I poured out my soul in prayer, and He poured out His Spirit upon me. Sunday as I fasted, I felt especially close to the Spirit. That day, we went out with brother Blanchard, to see Mindy Jo. Apparently she has someone living in her home that wants to be baptized. As we met with her, she told us the background information, and you could feel the darkness come into the room. He thinks that he is possessed, and that the demon that is with him is trying to kill Mindy. He wants to be baptized as soon as possible so that he can get it out of his life. I'm not sure whether he is really possessed or not, but the three of us agreed when we left that there is definitely a darkness in the home. The only ray of light is the children there, whenever they came into the room, the whole place lightened up. Hopefully we can help to bring the Spirit into the home. I have a strange feeling about the situation though...We are going to talk with our bishop tonight, because apparently there is some background information that may be helpful in dealing with the situation. We will seek his guidance and counsel about how to proceed.
Have you gotten any word on what my topic is?
Thats all I have for this week, love you.
Elder Schultz
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