Hey everyone!
So this week are moves....and I strongly feel that I will be leaving Helston. I've been here for almost 6 months so I feel like thee Elder Keller needs to move on, but who knows I might stay. It's most likely that I will leave so I said bye to a few families that I am really close with and it was sad, but at the same time i might stay so it'll be awkward if I do stay after saying goodbye to a few people haha.
This week has been busy, we have been seeing a lot of less actives, less actives that I havent met yet. They were interesting, but went well. We still haven't really taught that many people, which is sad. We did teach a guy named Richard yesterday after church, and brother Topham came with us! So we were going in there to teach Richard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we told bro Topham that we will ask him questions when we want him to speak haha, so we go in there and brother Topham is off on saying a whole bunch of things. After 10 minutes of trying to take control of the lesson I just gave up cause bro Topham just would not stop, it was so frustrating...especially when he was bringing up the temple, patriarchal blessings, Visions, D&C.. etc. It was bad...so yeah, it was pretty annoying, but Richard and bro Topham are good friends now so that's really good, but way too much info and things that just weren't necessary to say were said. So next Sunday we will see how it goes, haha.
Yesterday I was able to give a member of our ward a blessing. It was my first blessing out on the mission. I didn't really know what to say at all really and I didnt really know the member all that well, but he asked me to give him a blessing, and I did. It was me, Elder Sparks and Brett Jolliffe who is a member. Brett and Derrick (the guy i gave a blessing to) were talking to eachother before Derrick even asked me to give him a blessing, and they were talking about what has been going on in his life...all of his trials, sicknesses, etc. When I gave him a blessing it was just a simple blessing, and I just mentioned a lot about Jesus Christ, how the scriptures will help and guide him in his life etc. It was a blessing that I was really really relying on the Spirit to help me say the right things. I learned that I should not be affraid to just open the blessing and just wait and listen to what the Spirit will tell you what to say, and I learned that when the blessing was already going on. It was wonderful. After the blessing, Brett came up to me and said I did a wonderful spiritual blessing, he knew that was my first blessing and he was really cool about it. He told me everything I said in the blessing was what Brett and Derrick were talking about before I knew I was going to actually give a blessing. Its so amazing how the spirit works in us. I really had a wonderful day yesterday having that experience in using the priesthood that I am blessed to have. It was wonderful! ;)
Anyways I love and miss all of you, I hope everything is going well back at home. If you guys would be so kind, please pray for me. I know you are, but I need some help and guidance. I need to understand how to teach people, and actually find people to teach.
I love and miss all of you. Read and pray everyday, I can't tell you how much I love the scriptures, I've come to realize how powerful and wonderful the scriptures are. I find verses everyday that really uplift me and makes me want to do better and love and care for everyone around me.
Cheers everyone! ;)
P.s. The pictures:
-the tophams and I! They live in a motorhome! It's so fun to have dinner appointments with them! haha.
-a place called St. Ives
-my district...
:)
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