tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46358970891355444912024-03-12T18:32:41.875-07:00 Converting Vegas One Casino at a TimeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-79651599071277600592016-07-25T01:45:00.000-07:002018-05-05T13:56:57.074-07:00The Best Two Years<div class="MsoNormal">
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entire mission! I don't even really know where to start. I have had an amazing
mission from the day I opened my mission call until now so much has happened. I
know I will forever be changed because of this experience. I have met so many
awesome people and have seen so many lives change including myself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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he commanded every missionary to have at least one convert on their missions
and it better be themselves. My goal was to come home converted to the gospel.
And what I can say is that I am coming home knowing how to continually convert
myself to the gospel. Because conversion is not just a single event or moment
but it is something we become. My mission will be the best two years of my life
because who I am now is who I will become. And so down the road I will always
have the best two years! Life just gets better and better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't really know how to wrap up a mission. I've never
done it before. But I ponder about when our Savior left his earthly ministry he
left his Spirit to stay with us. And so I know I will forever remember my
mission because of the Spirit I have felt here, but also all the people I am
leaving behind. I will forever love this desert, haha!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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place - we are either progressing or digressing. I have so much more to improve
and do in my life. I have set the foundation for the rest of my life with this
mission and I encourage everyone to serve a mission! I have learned so much
more of the depth of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and I have felt peace as I
have repented through-out my mission and listened to the promptings of the Holy
Ghost. I have grown to love the scriptures and that will be a part of me for
the rest of my life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has had her family and pastors pressuring her. She came to church Sunday
and even greeted people at the doors with us. Then that night when she got
home from church, all her family was there - cousins, aunts and uncles, everybody
and their dog was there. And she said that her cousin was asking her what was
wrong and then the whole family started talking about Irene, and Irene was
explaining herself and everyone understood. Her cousin even said she would
come to church with her because she shouldn't do it by herself! So that was really
cool! She was so excited about the miracle she had with fasting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Friday and Saturday night and all the missionaries in the zone had to help prepare
dinner Friday night and run a booth on Saturday night. It was in a park by the
church we go to, the church actually owns this park and thousands of people
came - it was so crazy! As a zone we got 53 investigators there and there were at
least 1,000 other non-members that came! It was a huge celebration. To get
people to our booth we started a stick pull competition! Everyone was getting
so excited. It was really fun! Our ward even made like 2,000 tacos they gave
out! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love this gospel and I love this mission. I can look
anyone boldly in the eye and tell them that my mission has changed my life and
that this gospel is true. I have my struggles everyday but I know through Christ
I can be strengthened.</span></span></div>
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be a member missionary. I have thought about what the prophet’s last words have
been and this morning I was reading about Mormon's last words. He spoke simply
of the doctrine of Christ. That reminded me when we had a member of the Area Seventy bear his testimony in a sacrament meeting in one of my areas. He got up
and bore a simple testimony of our Savior. So my desire is to always be a
witness of my Savior Jesus Christ at all times through my words and actions. We
forget how merciful he is and how he has provided all for us. Don't ever forget
that! I know he lives!</span></div>
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representative of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I am touched as I remember
his last week in mortality. One, he did not get trunky. The very opposite actually
occurred. It was in his final week of mortality that he finished what his
father had sent him to do. It was in that week, his final days, that he changed
the world for forever more. Where he did his most important work. In my final
week is where I will do my most important work. As I share my story of the
weekend I just had and the things that we went through, I wish to apply that to
my last week and the last week of my Savior. I have unmistakably seen his hand
in my life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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which he cleansed and chastised those desecrating his holy house. Then the next
day on Tuesday he taught and they tried to reject him, but he was able answer and
teach in such a way to discredit them. The follow day we don't have any information
on him. But then Thursday was a big day. He has the last super and institutes
sacrament. And then he suffers in the Garden of Gethsemane for each and every one
of us. And then Friday he is crucified and Saturday he is in the tomb where he
had been placed the night before and he is teaching the spirits in prison. And
then Sunday he is resurrected. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this last week we had some really neat
experiences and I have some goals for my last week, so starting with Friday! Our
departing missionary temple trip got moved up because it was closed our last
Tuesday. And so I went to the temple asking God if I had done his will on my
mission. Basically, if I had made him proud with my service. I was not a perfect
missionary and I am still not, and at times I was hard on myself for that but I
always tried and I always gave it my best. And so in the temple I once again was
reassured that I was doing my fathers will. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think at times I focus too much on justice, and not enough on mercy. I made a covenant never to not have my temple
recommend and I wish to go at least twice a month, if not weekly to the temple!
And so that's how I started in the temple just like my Savior did. Then on
Sunday we were fasting as a zone to have our investigators come to church, especially those with baptismal dates. We were anticipating a lot of people at
church. Around 10 with a date. But Sunday morning came, and I kid you not, almost
every single one of them told us they couldn't come...now I know so many
missionaries, people that would have just given up and been discouraged. But we
had fasted for this and so I knew it was going to happen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first one who said no was our
really solid investigator, Irene, who I will talk a lot about. She texted us at 8
am, three hours before church, saying she wasn't going to be able to make it. Her
parents are part of another church and Irene is a youth minister
of that church as well, or more like was because of what happened Sunday. But
the reason for her not coming to church was because she told her mom that
morning she was going to a Mormon Church and her mom flipped. Even though she
has already shared a little with her mom, she still got mad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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she made the decision to come to church against her parents’ wishes and when
she returned home that night her mom told her that she wasn't allowed to live
with them anymore if she was going to make this decision. And then later that night, Irene came with us and a bunch of people to a fireside where two of my recent
converts from the Robindale Ward were speaking. And she told us that after the
fireside she was going to talk to her pastors and this morning before our hike
she told us that she was no longer a youth minister! She is so ready to
be baptized. It's so awesome. And so that was the first answer to our prayers
and fast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has never come to our church before because she always had work on Sundays, but
we went by on Saturday and she had just got out of the hospital since she had just had emergency surgery. The doctor had given her the next few days off from work,
which meant she could come to church. But the craziest part of that was before
we had walked into her house we had prayed that she would have a way to come to
church if it was Gods will. And it was.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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committed to come to church the next day and we had a very spiritual lesson.
And then that morning she started telling me all these excuses why she
couldn't go. Her family had just go into town and she wasn't feeling good even
though when I called the first thing she said was she was feeling better. So
I told her that yesterday she had made a promise to God to come to church and that
it was a commandment from him to come and that she could say she had faith but he
had prepared the way for her and she wouldn't have faith and unless she took
the steps necessary. She came to church. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and kind of a wild child, so we went back at 10 and woke her up. And she came
to church. The next one was a guy named Edgar, he is a great guy but very interesting.
He said he has done all these things to find an answer and hasn't found one
yet. And so when we went by Sunday morning to see if he was coming to church he
said he wasn't. And so we told him that God wasn't going to answer his prayers
unless he came to church and did what God required of him. And we were
extremely bold with him. He came to church. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is just so amazing to me how the Lord works! </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going into my last week of my
mission I wish to be as my Savior and make this the greatest week of my mission
yet. When he died and rose again he was perfected and resurrected. When I return
home from my mission I will be a different man that set out on his mission two
years ago and I know I will just continue to grow. I have a strong testimony of
my Savior Jesus Christ. I love the example that he gave me and I know that he
suffered and died for me and for all of us and he knows us personally.</span></span></div>
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all have a great week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We had a meeting with all the mission leadership and then zone conference the
following day. There were a lot of good things discussed there about our culture
and obedience and what we can do as leaders to help others change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El Rancho ward is going well!! Irene
is progressing so fast! I was sad to leave my last YSA ward but it is really
cool because our ward now has a lot of YSA in it. Most of the Hispanic kids like
to stay in the Spanish ward and don't go to the YSA ward. And so we have good
group of YSA and most of them are ward missionaries and our ward mission leader
is young and so it’s a lot of fun. Irene went to high school with a lot of them
and so it has just been perfect fellowship. We have been working a lot with
Irene about faith and courage and following the Holy Ghost. She told her mom
this last week that she went to a Mormon church and now she is going to tell
her next that she is getting baptized. She also has to tell her other church as
well that she is leaving and becoming a Mormon. So there are a lot of hard things
she has to do, but she is so strong! She worked graveyard Saturday night and
still came for all three hours of church. We went on a hike with her and the
sister missionaries and people from our ward last week on p-day and we are
planning a bike trip to Lake Las Vegas for next week! So it's a lot of fun
stuff and great fellowship for her. She also is a photographer and so she takes
good pictures and we even recruited her for our ward activity to take pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The activity we had was a plan of
salvation night. I did this a year ago in my last Spanish ward. We had
everyone get on a "plane" and then we all died and they got to go
through the different kingdoms of glory and learn about where they wanted to
go. Outer darkness was crazy! Nancy, a member of our ward, went all out for it.
We had strobe lights and fog and scary music haha! And the other two kingdoms
were desanimado as well. And so when everyone got to the celestial kingdom they
were very excited! And it showed the stark contrast that is between where God
dwells and the other kingdoms. We had around 50 people there and 5-7 of them
were investigators! So that was a neat activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This last week, as well, I went back
to my old area on exchanges with the assistants. It was great to be back in that
ward. They threw a "surprise" birthday party for me and at the party
there were 4 of my recent converts and 1 investigator! That was just so
cool to see them still going strong! I was able to go out with Ross, one of my
recent converts, to some lessons afterwards! He is not scared at all to share
the gospel its great! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week we saw some miracles in
finding and teaching some people that have real intent. One lady was a member
referral and she came to church on Sunday and we were a little worried what she
would think because the power had gone out and so the chapel was dark and there
was no AC. Ha but she didn't mind and the power came on later and she stayed
all three hours and even signed up on our dinner calendar to feed us! Also at
church a former investigator came and we were able to teach her afterwards. And
it was so cool because now she is ready and we set her with a baptismal date for
August! So the Lord is always ready to bless us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Spanish is coming little by
little. Sadly I won't have as much time as I really want to get fluent. But I
can understand most of it (depending on who is speaking) and can express myself
to some degree and so I will try to hold onto that throughout my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to talk about change and how important it is to always be progressing and
changing. We are going to talk about our founding fathers and the last change
and effect they had in this country. And then in a zone meeting tomorrow we are
making our own zone constitution with a bill of rights about how we will
proselyte, be obedient, and be sustainable. And then everyone will write their
own personal Declaration of Independence from all things carnal that hold us
back and sign it and we are going to put it on a huge flag! Here is our
preamble:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"We the missionaries of the
Nevada Las Vegas North Zone, in order to be more perfect disciples of Jesus
Christ, establish exact obedience, insure long term sustainable growth, preach
repentance and baptize convert, promote the spiritual welfare, secure the
blessing of God to ourselves and our posterity, do sustain and establish this
constitution for the North Zone.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I can't believe my mission is almost
to a close. I am so excited to apply all the things I have learned on my
mission for the rest of my life. To be a covenant keeper in a world that makes
it hard. I am excited to see all of you and share with you my testimony face to
face. I can boldly say that you won't even recognize me because of the person
God has helped me to become through the enabling power of the Atonement of
Jesus Christ. I have two weeks left and it's time to make them the best two
weeks of my mission! We always have to keep growing! I love you all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to weed out some of our investigators this week. It has been really neat. We
have been able to find a lot of families to start teaching. So we are excited
to start teaching them and see them progress. Sadly. one family we met that was
super solid (the dad had already read the Book of Mormon) gave us a wrong address.
But we are going to know the doors where they live and God will put them in our
path if they are ready. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week I got a text from my old area sayings this guy named Patrick was going to
be getting baptized. I met him when I was serving in the Whitney Ranch Ward in
Green Valley. The family he is living with took him off the streets and got him
off drugs and got him living a normal life style. He had never slept in a bed
until he moved in there. His life was crazy. And we started teaching him and at
times there just seemed to be no hope he would change. He ran away many times
and went back to his old life and we never knew if he would come back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other times. But eventually he slowly got off the drugs and then the last thing
was tobacco and he just overcame that and he asked me to baptize this last
week. What a privilege that was. I was so honored to do that for him. It's such
a miracle to see the change the atonement can have on someone. I love him to
death and am so proud of him. We also had a baptism in our area and she was a
sweet kind lady and it was so wonderful to see her change as well. She even
bore her testimony at church on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Truly, it's the change in other people that
motivates me to continue to grow and change myself as well as share this with
everyone. Yesterday I just fasted out of gratitude for my mission, it was my last
fast Sunday and I felt it such a great love for my mission. I have truly grown
and changed so much and it's helped me realize how much more I need to grow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">To be frank, before my mission, I was very complacent. And didn't feel I had much to work on, but as I have
grown I have really seen how much I truly need to work on. A member in a lesson
we had explained it so well. She said it was like a dark room. You didn't know
if it was messy or clean. And as the door opened light was let into the room.
If the door was only cracked then you could only see a little of the mess that
was in the room. And as it opened bigger and bigger then you could see all of
the mess in the room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christ more in our lives. As we come unto to Christ we are humbled and we see
our weaknesses more and more and then they become strengths. I have loved my
mission! It has truly been a wonderful experience. It's hard sometimes looking
at these younger missionaries and see that at times they don't understand the
importance of this great work. It has been wonderful to talk with them and
encourage them to change more on their mission to be obedient and to follow
Christ. We cannot do this work without Him.</span></div>
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It has been fun getting back into Spanish and trying to get as fluent as I
possibly can. I am trying to speak slowly so that I have good pronunciation. But
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frustrating. I am getting totally immersed in the Spanish culture. We invite
lots of people to get baptized and to come to church and then they never follow
through. We even had this church tour set up with this lady and we called her because
she was late and she answered and said I am on my way! And then she never came.
Haha. And so the hardest thing is to find those who are really interested! The ways that I have done it in the past don't work in this area and so, as
always, I am growing and learning every day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But my Spanish is getting better and better every day! In
our ward we have a lot of YSA aged people that are RMs or converts to the
gospel. And so that is still super fun to have young people. They help us out a
lot and really understand the gospel and help out our investigators a lot. One
of our most solid investigators was this YSA member friend. She is so solid.
She is actively going to another Christian church with her family. But she
knows the gospel is true and so she is just building up the courage to tell her
pastor and parents and get Sunday's off at work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other day my comp had a lesson with her, we were on
splits, and she said she had this prompting to tell her mom and then she
didn't. So they had a great lesson and we are really excited for her! Also we have this other investigator who is
getting baptized this weekend and she called yesterday before church saying she
was sick and she needed to come to church and so we talked to her and then she came to church
but she brought her 6 year old son. Ha and so after sacrament she was trying to
take him to primary but he ran out of the church into the parking lot and then
started telling his mom all this stuff. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And then she tried
to have him get in the car and leave and he wouldn't. Ha he was just being a
piece! Haha my comp and I were just like this kid! Haha I call him paco now.
But he was a brat and so they had to leave. </span></div>
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transferred up to North Las Vegas! It's a super fun area. The most ghetto one I
have served in my whole mission. We live with a member of the church, and in his
backyard he has two shacks. And so we live in one and other elders live in the
other. The members name is Brother Loveland. And so we call him love man and
his house the love shack. He is famous throughout the whole mission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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them. It's just like an apartment with four apartments. Like everyone we
talk to lives in those. And we may as well be some of the only white people
around! It's mostly Hispanic and black! So its fun - lots of people to speak
Spanish to. The transition was really good! We had a lot of success and are hopefully
going to see people enter the waters of baptism. Our ward is awesome.
Especially our ward mission. We have a lot of RMs and YSA as our ward
missionaries and ward mission leader and so they are all super awesome! That
is really cool. Still sort of feel like I am serving in a YSA ward. But the
Spanish is coming back to me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's awesome because
my comp speaks really well and has a really good accent and so I am learning a
lot from him on how to say things. I have already come far. And I made a list
with a lot of sayings on them so I can practice them! Como este comida es para
choparse los dedos. Jaja The zone is really cool! We are all in the same stake
and so we get to see each other more often and get to do stuff as a zone on p-day.
So that's really cool! I love being a missionary and have really enjoyed my
time serving in all aspects. It is nice to finish my mission with a little less
responsibility but I still have enough to keep me busy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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stories! I was saying a prayer in Spanish in our shack the other day over our
dinner as our member just dropped off Subway for us. And I said in Spanish "thanks for the food....there it is haha" hay esta! Hahahaha my comp
thought it was the funniest thing ever. Then this other member fed us dinner
yesterday and he called us a half hour before dinner and said his car broke
down and that he needed a ride, and so we went and picked him up and he was
like I need to go to the store to buy food for dinner haha! He was a recent
convert and so he really didn't understand not shopping on the Sabbath
day...but Hispanics in general don't. Haha and so we dropped him off and waited
in the car and as we were waiting we were joking about what if we saw the
bishop or someone come to get food for Father's Day. And like five minutes
later we saw this couple from church walk up to the store and we died laughing
haha! Gotta love the commandments!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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transferred for my last transfer! I thought I was going to stay in the office
until I went home, but God's plans were otherwise. My time in the office, and
especially my time in the Robindale YSA Ward, have been great and I have learned
so much from these last three transfers. I have loved this ward! Never have I
felt so apart of a ward. I honestly felt like it was my home ward. I was
invested in the members and the work and everything just fell into place as we
were able to be instruments in the Lord's hands to bring many unto Christ. I have
met so many people and have seen many changed by the atonement of Christ in
this area. From member madness with the members doing missionary work, to
converts who are truly converted to the Lord and His church. I look back and am
without words at all the blessings God has poured out upon us. I am truly
grateful for the hand God has had in my life and throughout my mission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for all the wonderful people that I have met. But it will be exciting to come
back for some more baptisms and on exchanges to see all these people I have
come to love so much. And then to keep in contact with them throughout the
rest of my life. I think spending my last six weeks in Spanish will be good as that
is what the Lord called me to speak. I am excited to dedicate myself to the
language and plan to only study and speak Spanish as much as I possibly can. I
am excited to apply all that I learned in the office with those in my zone and
to have much more of an one on one impact with the missionaries. To be more of a
minister and not so much as an administrator. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that I love being a missionary and that I have enjoyed seeing so many people’s
lives change these last 4 months. It is a miracle that with all the other
things we do on a day to day basis for the mission that we even have time to
proselyte. But the Lord has put so many people in our path; just random street
contacts and referrals that have just turned out to be people that really
wanted and needed the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it was a member from one of my last wards speaking to all the YSA in the
region. He was part of swat and a convert to the gospel and just gave an
incredible talk. But one part that stuck out to me the most was when he kept
bringing up "real intent". He told of when he was reading and praying
to find out if the Book of Mormon was true and wasn’t getting any answers that
a friend told him to go see a bishop and ask him. And so he found the nearest
bishop and since he didn’t have transportation he figured out how long it would
take him to walk there. He walked hours to speak to a man he had never met
before because he wanted to know if this was true. After receiving advice, he
met back up with the missionaries who had first taught him. And to do so he had
to hitch hike 3 hours to find them. Then later, as a member, he wanted to get his
patriarchal blessing and he had to make a five hour drive to get there. He
talked about how those were moments of real intent. That he would do anything
to know and receive the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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often we talk about having real intent to find out if the church is true, but
how often do we have real intent in our day to day lives and in exercising
faith in god and in receiving answers to our questions? That we pray a lot as
missionaries to find people to teach but do we work at every cost to find them? Will we do whatever it takes to fulfill the prayers we have offered up to god?
So it was a very good fireside and I have enjoyed all the many activities we
have been able to take our investigators to that have helped them on their own
path.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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influence people in a very hands off way and through asking inspired questions.
I learned a lot about not just jumping into things but really looking at things
in depth. The Lord has truly blessed me with so many opportunities to grow on
my mission and he never lets me get comfortable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and I know I will apply the things I have learned here to the rest of my life.
That’s the real test; to take these things and apply them the rest of our
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day it just flies by. We went on two exchanges this last week and had meeting
with President Snow and had to prepare a training for a meeting we have this
upcoming week, as well as take care of some emergency transfers. So we are
staying very, very busy and all the while trying to set the example in our
area. I have learned a lot about how to take on a lot and not get stressed, but
to just focus on the task at hand. President Snow is very good at thinking
things through and trying to get the whole picture. It has been a great experience
learning more about leadership, and it is very humbling to learn from mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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our stake who was wanting their young men to go out with the elders in the area
and so we took out two young men but one happened to not even be a member. One
of his friends had just invited him that night. And it was so cool to see how
this nonmember was brave and talked to more people on the street about the Book
of Mormon then the member we had with us. It must have been a </span>wake-up<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> call for
that member. As we were walking and talking to people, we would teach the nonmember.
He said he really enjoyed the experience, and he didn't really know if God
existed but that this was a positive experience. At one door a lady opened up
and said in a harsh tone "I am an atheist" and then the nonmember
chimed back "Me Too!" Haha He said he would be a good mediator for
the people we talked to! The missionaries took down his info and so hopefully
he will accept the gospel and go be an awesome missionary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Madagascar! Which is pretty unique. When we first met him it was a referral
from a family ward missionaries for his younger brother, but we ran into him
instead. And when I talked to him the first time he said he was agnostic and
not that interested. But we were able to give him a Book of Mormon and he said
we could come back and from them on it was game over. He is so solid and loves
everything we share. He had a job on Sunday and so we started helping him look for
a new job. We took him to a job fair and he got some good leads, but later that
week he texted us and said he had called his supervisor and just told him that
he wasn't going to be able to work on Sundays. And then he also got a new job,
so the Lord blessed him. We also took him to the temple yesterday morning and
that was very neat. He is getting baptized at the end of the month. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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who was being taught by an area seventy. We actually had a lesson with Elder
Larkin, the area seventy, and his wife with Michael this past week. That was
really neat. Elder Larkin knew the scriptures very well. Michael is awesome. He
has a Christian background and knew the Bible very well. He just grew so much
as he studied the Book of Mormon. His baptism was awesome. He had a lot of
people from the west side of Vegas drive over for his baptism. Elder Larkin was
able to baptize him and it was just a great service! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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an awesome guy. He is very logical and he had asked me some very interesting
questions which he wanted to learn about and get answers to in my talk I was to
give about baptism. He has always been intrigued his whole life with the
physical state of Israel and so he wanted to know how his baptism would help
him gather physically and spiritually the house of Israel. It's not many people
who have that in depth understanding at their baptism. But the best part and
most spiritual part of the whole service was at the very end when he bore his testimony
about his conversion process. I will take a few moments to recount what he said
because it was so very powerful and it was the most emotion I have ever seen
him show, and his testimony was solely based on his free will to follow Christ.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was raised a Catholic and went to church every Sunday and went to a Catholic
school, but none of it was my choice and so at the age 17 I began to fall away
from my belief in a God and make choices that were not correct. I eventually
went to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. I didn't know then how close I
was to where the church began. The liberal atmosphere at that school taught me
much and my intelligence grew as I studied. But all the while I continued to
make sub optimal decisions and I did not have true agency and control over my
thoughts and actions and lusts. Eventually, I moved too Dolan Springs Arizona
and started working in the medical marijuana industry. I felt my actions were
justified as I was helping others receive medicine. But as I watched more and
more bad people come through and to not even use it for its correct purposes I
decided to leave and I made my way back up to New York. Eventually, I decided
to travel Israel. I have always been interested in the physical state of Israel
and didn't learn much about the spiritual until now. But as I was there I tried
to cross the border into Israel and I was denied as I had no real time period
or purpose. That was a </span>wake-up<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> call for me. And so eventually I made my way back
to Dolan Springs and the first week I was there the missionaries came to my
door. Just earlier that week I had written a paper on faith for school, so I was
open to listening to them. But I found a job and then moved the Vegas where I
met the missionaries here and continued to grow and get back to my Father in Heaven.
This time though, it was my choice. I used my agency to pray and read and come
to church. One lesson, the elders told me I needed to pray every single day and
to read as well. So I committed to read and start the Book of Mormon over. As I
was walking to the bus stop listening to the first chapter of Nephi and praying
about if the book was true I saw a New Testament laying on the ground. I
thought that was ironic and then a few hours later my sister who was going to
need surgery and my family had no health insurance texted me and said that she
didn't need any surgery. I have made my choice to follow Christ this day. I
know the Book of Mormon to be true, it has filled me. But I still always had
doubts and a questions I was considering was how I could combine my liberal knowledge
I had gained at the university with the things I have learned in this
institution. This past week I was reading about the founder of Cornell University
and in the 1800s he had traveled to Russia and spoke with a very renowned
philosopher, [can’t remember name], and the philosopher asked the founder what
he thought of Mormonism, and the Founder responded saying many negative things
and how they were polygamist. Then the philosopher responded saying " I am
saddened to hear of someone of your stature to feel such a way, because Mormonism
has the purest religion and if the members of its church abide by the
principles beings taught there it will go forth and fill the earth. If it makes
it past three or four generations it will never fall as other nations have
before but it will fill the earth." That was the last thing I needed to
know In order to continue this path I have chosen to take. I know Joseph Smith
is a true prophet of God and that this is the Lord’s church. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it was one of the most powerful moments in my mission. I will have Teddy write
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-45946463861633466642016-05-23T01:07:00.000-07:002016-05-25T01:07:30.646-07:00Ross and Luis<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another week has come and gone! This one just flew by! I don't even hardly remember what happened this week. <br /> <br />We had two baptisms this last week and both were awesome. The first one, the guy was so happy, He was actually out of town for the weekend and got back just before his confirmation, but he still went and had a great time. <br /> <br />The second one, I was able to baptize him. He said that he had called his mom the morning of his baptism and that she told him that he was going to hell. He said he never felt better in his whole life he was so excited for his baptism. I felt the spirit very strongly as he went down into the water. When he came back up again, we had a big wet bear hug! The water was a bit cold. While we were changing, I told him he could bear his testimony if he wanted, but I failed to tell him when. And so when we walked out of the restroom, he just started bearing his testimony, and it was so awesome. It was very spiritual and he was really funny! I am so excited for his progression. <br /> <br />I love you all and hope you have a great week! I am loving serving the Lord. It's not easy, but it's worth it. I am constantly being humbled as I serve with the mission president and I just pray that the mission can continue to see success. <br /> <br />Elder Clark<br /><br /><br /> </span><br /> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-68633670187999042092016-05-16T01:05:00.000-07:002016-05-25T01:06:09.705-07:00Glory Like Ammon<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I could describe how awesome this last week was! Partially because it was full of so many miracles and also because it's hard to remember back a week.<br /> <br />Well this week the Lord blessed us to learn how to use our iPad planners more effectively, and we were able to help teach the zone leaders. I can honestly say this was the first week of my mission since we have had the iPad’s that I really enjoyed planning on them compared to the old paper we used to have. That was a miracle we saw with the missionaries this week, and it really helped out a lot of the zone leaders plans as well. <br /> <br />Also our area is just going crazy! We have the most solid people I have ever taught before and we have so many of them! We will be having two baptisms this week and one of which we weren't even entirely sure if the guy was going to be baptized. He is 18, but worried about offending his mom with his decision to join the church. We had a lesson and addressed his concern and after my companion read a scripture he said "Well I guess I need to be baptized then". We also had a recent convert with us who was able to share her experience and how her dad wasn't particularly happy with her decisions to join the church either. <br /> <br />Then one night at the church, we had a lesson with some sister missionaries who had an investigator they were going to pass off to us His name was Wu. Wu is from China and only speaks a small amount of English. We got to the lesson a little earlier and were waiting at the church for this lesson to happen. While we were waiting, a random guy came to the door and was trying to come in, and so we opened the door for him and stared talking to him. He was a 23 year old from Russia named Dean. We began speaking to him and he said that he had driven by this church many times and that for some reason today he was prompted to come and see what it was about. He spoke of a hard past and a desire to have hope in his life. He came from a traditionally Muslim family but never really practiced, nor did his parents. He never really got involved in any religion and didn't have a strong back ground in Christ. We ended up having a lesson with him, as well as Wu. Dean wanted to meet again the very next day and now he is preparing for baptism. As I was pondering this miracle, I was thinking of my patriarchal blessing which talks about my mission and how the Lord will prepare people for me and my companion to teach with the spirit, but it also mentions that I would gain a love for mankind. Before my mission, I took that phrase to mean I would most likely serve in a foreign place, but when I was called to Vegas I still wasn't sure what that meant. But as I served in Spanish areas, I grew to love the people, as well as the people of Las Vegas, in general. But in one night the Lord put two people in our path from different parts of the world. It was so cool to see that prophecy unfold before my eyes and continue to develop. <br /> <br />My hope and my prayer is that we can continue to stay humble and give thanks to Him.<br /><br />It reminds me of Ammon in Chapter 26 of Alma: <br /> <br />14 Yea, we have reason to praise him forever, for he is the Most High God, and has loosed our brethren from the chains of hell. <br /> <br />15 Yea, they were encircled about with everlasting darkness and destruction; but behold, he has brought them into his everlasting light, yea, into everlasting salvation; and they are encircled about with the matchless bounty of his love; yea, and we have been instruments in his hands of doing this great and marvelous work. <br /> <br />16 Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel. <br /> <br />My goal is to baptize weekly until I return from my mission and I know that as I glory in God and not of myself and always depending on the agency of others, the Lord will hear my cries. As it stands right now, we should have baptisms weekly until June 18th! God is truly wonderful <br /> <br />Elder Clark</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-50280288116539297262016-05-08T00:49:00.000-07:002016-05-25T01:02:40.713-07:00Elder Holland's Visit<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a crazy experience to have Elder Jeffery R. Holland
come and visit our mission. We spent the days prior working with the APs from the
West mission to prepare. It was pretty cool to meet them; they were cool guys.
It's so interesting to see how different missions are run. The day of the
conference with Elder Holland was pretty exciting. We had the chapel all set up
and ready early, and then we locked all the doors to the church as we had
people arriving as early as 11:00 a.m. The meeting started at 2:00 p.m., so we
kept everyone outside and when it was time to get set up for the picture we had
to funnel them in -- all 180 of them in the foyer and the hall! We told them to
all be quiet and we had the office staff helping us keep them all under control.
It got really hot in there but everything went great! We were all set up for
the picture and then afterward we were able to shake hands with Elder Holland
and the other authorities who were with him, which included President Lynn G
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That week we had pulled up the new AP, Elder Green, as Elder
Thorne was going to be leaving the office and so Elder Green and I were able to
sit in the very front row, and then Elder Thorne joined us after he finished
conducting the meeting. That was a very neat experience for him. And it was
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a lot that he said that was very powerful and
impacting. He is just so good at bringing the scriptures to life. He teaches
you new insights from scriptures that you have read a thousand times. The majority
of what he spoke about was about getting down to the level our investigators
are at. He used an example of Christ doing that in the New Testament and that
was really neat. But there was a couple moments when he really threw down. He
was standing right in front of me on the stand and he shouted to everyone and I
mean shouted! He had a mic hooked up and everything. He said "You have no
right to abuse the image of a missionary." He had been telling us how the
members view us as perfect, and he made it clear that we had no right to change
the opinion of the members. It was also very neat because in the beginning he
said, “As I shook your hand, I interviewed every single one of you.” He
continued to say that he is proud of the Las Vegas missions because they are
full of the spirit. He also said that there are some that he could see were
struggling, but that he knew they could do it! It was really neat to just see
how much the spirit really spoke to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our investigator Allyson's mom, we went to the YSA conference that Elder Holland
was going to be at. It was at our normal chapel and so we got a few of our
investigators there! That was another great meeting. He talked about happiness
being a destination and that in this life we will not arrive at happiness but
strive for it. That it is about the pursuit of happiness. In 2 Nephi, they
lived after the manner of happiness. They weren't necessarily happy all the time
but they were living in a manner that would bring them happiness. It was so
funny because the he actually started his talk with a joke, and it was like the
one dad likes to tell with the frog and the butterfly, but it had to do with an
orchestra and everyone thought he was going to relate it into a talk but he
simply just told a joke! So that was pretty funny. It was a great experience
for our investigators to come and see him speak! One of them leaned over to my
companion during the fireside and told him that she wanted to stop cussing, so
that was a cool miracle! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have seen just so many miracles! These last two weeks we
have barely had any time to proselyte -basically only Saturday and Sunday and
then a couple hours every night during the week. We have been putting in almost
twenty hour days this last week! One day we had to get up at 4 am and then we
weren’t able to go to bed until midnight or later with only an hour nap on a
couch to get us by! But even with all these things, the Lord has just blessed
us immensely. Last Sunday Elder Green and I set goals of how we wanted to grow
our faith and we were praying and fasting for it. I was specifically praying
for more people to be ready to be baptized as this ward would take care of
them! Then in third hour of church, our bishop came and grabbed us and took us
to his office to meet a guy named Michael, who wasn't a member. At that same
time, another member grabbed me and told me his non member girlfriend was at
church and that she wanted to meet with us. And so in third hour on Sunday we
had two lessons! Michael had been invited by Elder Larkin, an area seventy on
the west side of Vegas, to learn more about the gospel. When we met with Elder
Larken, we learned that Michael had been having lessons at his house every week
and then he had given him the instructions on how to find the chapel in his
area and it was our chapel! The other day I called Elder Larkin to update him
and he is going to join us for some lessons! That will be really neat. We will
be setting Michael for baptism today at church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another awesome referral came from Dolan Springs, Arizona;
another little town in our mission. It is a miracle that a YSA came from that
little town. His name is Teddy and he is super awesome. He is a software
engineer and so he is very technical about everything. We were having a lesson
with him and he said that he just wasn't too sure yet about the Book of Mormon
and Joseph smith. He had already read all of 1 Nephi and studied a lot. We
asked him if he had specifically prayed about it and he said no, so that was our
commitment to him. The next day he texted us and asked if he could do the audio
version to study as he likes to walk a lot. That night at Institute he told us
how he got an answer to his prayers. He had started the Book of Mormon over and
this time prayed before and after he read. He said as he was walking he found a
New Testament on the street, and that was funny to him because the Book of Mormon
and the New Testament both testify of Christ. And then he said that a couple
hours later when he was still listening to it, his sister, who was supposed to
have a surgery, texted him and said that she didn't need it anymore! He felt
like both of those incidents were answers to his prayers. It was an awesome
miracle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In these last three months that I will be a full time
representative of the Lord, I am excited for all the people we can help come to
Christ. Elder Holland said that as missionaries we are apostolic extensions of
the Quorum of the Twelve. We carry Christ’s name on our chest, and I am proud
to wear it. I know this gospel is true. It is undeniable that the Book of
Mormon is the word of God! I have lots of goals of how I want to finish my
mission and I know the Lord will bless me for it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I can't even explain how blessed we were this week! Coming off
of conference with the many messages we received and the answers to our
questions was awesome. Every time, I am shocked at how fast the brethren answer
the questions that I prepare.</span><br />
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This week we have been extremely busy and we were able to witness many miracles.
We had one investigator that completely changed her life around and was
baptized this last Friday. A month ago when we would go over to teach her
sister, she would go to her room and smoke pot while we were there. And then
out of nowhere she started sitting in with us during the lessons. And even when
her sister didn't come to church or FHE, she did. Where as in the past, she
only came with her sister. She started reading the Book of Mormon and gained a
testimony of the truthfulness of the restored gospel and she committed to live
the commandments and she made a complete shift in her life. Being clean before
her baptism was the longest she had gone without smoking since she was a young
teen. It was amazing the day she was baptized and the transformation she has
had. Her sister, who is also investigating, was hit super hard by her conversion.
And she asked me to baptize her! Afterwards when I was changing, I realized I
had forgotten an extra white shirt as mine was soaked. I was beginning to get a
bit worried as I had no shirt to wear back out and everyone was waiting for me
to change. So it came down to two options, wear my completely soaked white
shirt and just come out sopping wet, or, as I frantically looked around and
prayed for a solution...I saw a dry baptismal suit which had been left behind, hanging
up. I hurriedly put that on and then put my suit on over that. The baptismal
suit was a bit small and the pants hit me at and the waist line was around my
belly button, but it was an old one and had a collar and a pocket! It was a bit
puffy under my suit, but it did the trick!</span><br />
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Then this week we were just blessed to get so many member referrals. At a
dinner we had a member bring a friend who is super interested in the gospel,
then a member from out of town met a guy and we started teaching him today, and
then our dinner tonight sent us to her </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">neighbor who is a less active family with a 19 year old son who is not a
member! My prayers have been answered in full as I plead with the Lord to put
people in our path who are ready for baptism, as this ward can retain everyone
we teach! And then tonight at our last stop, we met </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">two Filipino</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> girls who were super nice and interested and accepted the invitation
to be baptized. We taught them the whole first lesson all from their doorstep!
I knew as we began talking that they would accept the gospel! It was a cool experience.</span><br />
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In the mission there has been an iPad crisis! Missionaries are coming out with
terrible habits. When I came out on my mission we were lucky to have a
"fast" from technology for over a year. And so we learned independence</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> from texting thumbs, and gained the desire to read papers scriptures! We
actually carried paper scriptures with us! But these new young missionaries are
getting caught up in bad habits and are even falling prey to being disobedient
and using the iMessage capability in an inappropriate way. As the crisis has
come to our attention I have learned many valuable lessons from other missionary’s
mistakes, my mission president and the missionary department. 1.) I never want
to be a slave to my device. I have to catch myself on this one all the time!
But when I come home I want to continue good habits with technology. We can't
let them control us, and before my mission mine totally did! But it won't when
I come home. Put it down for a moment, read paper scriptures, do something
else, have a face to face </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">conversation. Don't be caught scrolling through pointless social media! 2.) Don't
make haste decisions and actions. Our first reaction was to shut down
iMessage. My comp and I compiled a pros
and cons list, and there were plenty of both, but one of our biggest concerns
was taking away the agency of the missionary's and how they use their devices.
Our president talked with the mission department and we learned of many
missions who have shut down the iMessage. We were advised to do all we can to
teach correct principles and help them want to live the law for the right
reason; in other words, to fix the root of the problem not just the symptom.
And so our president asked has to create a roll out plan to better teach the
missionaries coming in and also the current ones on how to better use
technology. Where my first instinct was to shut it off, I now want to invite
all of us to be better at using technology! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-70023810098605243962016-03-31T21:16:00.000-07:002016-04-12T23:04:46.574-07:00Member Madness<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well
it was another great week in the mission field! We have had lots of miracles
this week and lots of fun!<br />
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I don't even know where to start. This
past week we have been having our member March madness bracket going. The ward
are all in teams and competing with one another in missionary work. The work is
going off in the ward right now! It's so cool to see all of our members getting
involved and even those that are just coming back into activity. One girl is so
awesome and she has come out with us all week and has been doing tons of
missionary work and getting so excited about it! Today at church, she asked for
a blessing and just told us how thankful she was for us and all we did for her!
She also took our investigator home from church and threw down on him! She was
sharing her testimony and telling him to get baptized. And he was crying, and he
never shows emotion, but almost cried too. The moments that matter most on your
mission is when you see people change their lives. That is what makes you never
want to leave!<br />
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This week we also hit the basketball courts at a nearby park and met a really
cool dude. It's about my fifth time going to the courts to play ball. And man,
the first couple times I had butterflies so bad! I was literally one of the
only white dudes there. But this week we had a cool miracle with the homies. We
played this one guy and after the game we had a lesson and another dude we had
played with before joined in with us. As we were teaching, the guy joining in
was like, "dude I am totally converting, like give me a year! Dude their
churches even got gyms! And you see all them other Christian churches and they
be twerking in church! Now man that ain't right! These bros got it right."
You got to love when you have random
ballers testifying in lessons. The guy we were actually teaching wants to play
ball at Dixie in St George and so we told him everyone there is Mormon, so we
will see how that goes!<br />
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Also this week, Haley was baptized! Which was really neat! It only took 6
times before she was all the way under! She got a bloody nose about the third
time and so she had to step out and take care of that. But she is awesome! She
is so, so converted for missionary work and the gospel! I know in the last few
months, I had really been praying to find people who would truly convert and it
is so cool the see the people we have been teaching and their commitments change.<br />
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So fast forward another week..... Ha I get so busy that I start a draft and don't
get to finish it!<br />
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This last week we had a really cool experience at the temple of multiple
reasons. One of the members in our ward was receiving his endowments and it was
cool to go with him as he has gone through a lot in his life and has changed so
much to be where he is at now. Right after we got out of the session we received
a text from one of our other members saying that she and a few other sisters
from our ward were at the temple with two of our investigators having a lesson
and we could come say hi if we wanted too! It's so cool when your members are missionaries
themselves and fellowship! The funniest part was that they had just completed a
color run and so they were in running clothes and covered in colored dust!<br />
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Other than that, we have been super busy with transfers and training missionaries.
There is so much for me to learn and this assignment I am in now is going to
teach me a lot about humility and dedication and reliance on the Lord.<br />
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With this last Easter marks my final Easter on my mission! I guess you only get
two, so no big deal! But we had a great Easter! I almost died. We had two
dinners that day. One with our investigator and one with some members and both
were so good! That morning, before church, we called a bunch of random people
in our area book and set up lessons with them and sent some referrals! It was
pretty crazy to just call people up and have them be open. I guess the youngins' always answer their phone, ha ha!<br />
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Well hope you all have a good week!<br />
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The Clark's were in Las Vegas for the day, and were able to take Logan and Elder Thorne out to lunch. Sounds like they had a great visit. I am so grateful for a wonderful friend who was willing to take time out of her vacation to have lunch with a couple of Elders! What an awesome surprise text!! Thank you Dave, Joleen and Jonah!<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Things as an assistant are far
different then I could have ever expected. It is a very hard assignment in some
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biggest things I am learning is trying to stay up on the basics even with all
my extra responsibilities. I can truly see a difference when we have a good study
in the morning and I get some personal time to read from the scriptures and
words of prophets, as well as when we just have a normal day to proselyte. Not
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origami at FHE last night. He says he is the origami master and so some people
nick named his origami, corigami! He liked that a lot haha! He is doing well!
For the last week he has brought his tarantula to our lessons, and he always
wants us to hold him! Ha I guess I am slowly overcoming my fear of spiders! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Friday, Hayley is getting
baptized! She has come a long way and it's incredible to see the change the
gospel can bring on people. I already shared part of her story in my last email,
but it's been so cool. She has had a member of the church as her best friend and
that is a major reason why she is changing. That is why being a member
missionary is so important, they can do things we never could do. Like those
two are always together and so it has really helped her out. She posted on
Facebook and Instagram to all her friends about her conversion and baptism. And
many of her friends have hostile views to some stand points of the church and
Hayley herself, only months before, held the same views. But what changed for
her was personal study, prayer, and a good friend. She read all of the gospel principles
book and lots of the Book of Mormon. We would give her homework assignments out
of the back of the pamphlets and she would basically write a dissertation on it
and bring in her own referenced scriptures. She would always go above and
beyond and always surprise us! I am so grateful I was able to see this miracle.
I know without a shadow of a doubt that it was all the power of God! It was
really cool because my comp and I did absolutely nothing. For example, we did a
magic trick just so we could do something that would blow her mind and she
wouldn't already know the answer too! Ha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so in these last three
transfers I have of my mission, I have so much left to do. I am grateful for
the opportunity I had to serve; I have grown so much. I still have doubts and
wonders and struggles, but I know this gospel is true. I serve the people of
Las Vegas because I know I am serving God. I know that I love God by the effort
I have put into my mission. No one would work this hard for two years and not know
it’s true! I know it is. The Book of Mormon stands against the rising new
generation as a testament of Jesus Christ and of the restoration of the gospel
and of the prophet Joseph smith. We have the fullness of the gospel! If you
have doubts, doubt them as Elder Uchtdorf would say. But if you have questions its
ok, just press forward and keep the commandments and one day your question will
be answered. If you don't know if you should serve a mission and are contemplating
it I would recommend you do! Especially if you are a male! It's a priesthood
duty but even more then that it will define you and your love for God for the
rest of your life. The way you serve God and serve a mission is a reflection of
how the rest of your life will be! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Logan's P-days are a little different now, so the letters don't come in every Monday, like before. I didn't get a letter this week, but I received this cute picture.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-368617879211814402016-03-03T21:26:00.000-08:002016-03-20T21:28:44.882-07:00Miracles on Miracles<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't even express all the craziness that is going on right now! I love my mission! It's been so fun to see our area just explode! This last weekend we had a baptism! It was really special. She was so happy! She had been taught for a while in a family ward because her grandparents were in that ward, but then she came over to YSA and she loved it. She was so excited to meet all the people at the ward and for all the new friends she made! <br /><br />And then in my last area a couple that I had taught, got baptized! I am pretty sure I told the story already, but basically the wife became interested in the gospel because she saw how it was changing her husband as he came to church and met with the missionaries! They also were so happy when they got baptized. It really strengthens your testimony when you see how happy these people are and how excited they are to make this covenant with God. It inspires me to be more excited and more dedicated to keeping my own covenants.<br /><br />As for our own area, we are just seeing indescribable blessings! We have one investigator who is so, so, so solid but the only reason she is not getting baptized is because she wants her boyfriend to be there and he is in the marines and isn't home right now. And so we are praying he can come back and visit or she will be ok for him to Skype in. The other day she changed her schedule to work on Sunday and so we had a lesson about the Sabbath day and that week she changed her schedule to having weekends off!! It was cool because she said she sacrificed a little extra money, but that she knew it was worth it.<br /><br />Another investigator we have, has a slight mental handicap! He's super funny. I can't shake his hand or he will never let go! And I mean never ha! He is going to be getting baptized in a week or so and he understands a ton; like sometimes he surprises us how much he knows! He was raised Catholic and so at time it's hard for him to transition out of his old ways but he's doing it. And the funniest part is that he goes to two wards! The morning family one and then the YSA one. And there's nothing we can do to get him to switch to just one-haha! <br /><br />Man the miracles just keep coming! There was a former investigator who cut off the elders really fast because she didn't believe the stance the church had on homosexuality. But then she was coming to church and all the activities and so we set up a time to meet with her again. And when we went by she said she wanted to be baptized and that she and her member friend had already set up the program and they just had to choose the day! It was so crazy. They even took off work to go to the temple and do the reading assignment we left them. <br /><br />And then!! We meet this really cool guy from Georgia who played rugby and he came to institute last night and he really wants to get involved so we are really excited for him! And there are even more people that we are working with who are super awesome! We are so blessed and we are determined it's because of our members. The Lord can trust them to retain all these converts! <br /><br />And then yesterday we had a crazy day! We got up at 4:20 AM to take a missionary to the airport and when we got back we got ready for the day and then went to the church and set up for a meeting and then we were in a meeting from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM and then we went on exchanges! So it was a fun day for sure! <br /><br />Hope y'all have a great week! <br /><br />Elder Clark</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-3369489039165703042016-02-22T21:07:00.000-08:002016-03-20T21:10:35.686-07:00A Stripper to a Saint, Saints and Soldiers<pre style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><pre style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it's about time that I share some pretty awesome miracles the Lord is blessing us with!
We are seeing people truly change their lives! And the name of the blog my mom has for me
is converting one casino at a time, and so I am not totally doing that as we can't go into
casinos but I am doing the second best thing.
We have been teaching a stripper and it's amazing to see the progress she has made! She
totally knows this gospel is true! She has even started teaching her sister and friend and
they both are going to get baptized in April! She just throws down on her friends in lessons
and tells them how it is! It's so cool. So she will hopefully be baptized soon. We are trying to
help her get a new job! And so it's just such a cool experience - all the miracles we see!
She loves all the activities the ward has, and she is just friends with everyone! We even use
her to fellowship our other investigators. She sits by whoever at church for us and she says
hi to everyone! Haha And last night, it was cool in our lesson, we were talking about a new
job for her and she wants to go into real estate and the member that was with us was in real
estate. And the class she was normally going to take was 2-3 months, the class to get their
license at our members place is two weeks! And so hopefully she jumps on that opportunity!
We also had a guy we have been teaching who is in the army get baptized this last week!
He is so, so awesome. He has just known it was all true and has a huge testimony. He has
just moved so fast! We have only taught him for a month and he read all through 1st Nephi
and taught the plan of salvation to his friends! He is just eating up everything the church
has to offer!
Things are going really great in our ward! We have some pretty awesome investigators and
some awesome people going to get baptized soon!
I hope you all have a good week!
Elder Clark
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Happy Valentine's Day!<br />
<br />
It's been a good last couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed being back with Elder
Thorne and working with him. We have a lot of fun together. It's a lot
different being in the office and I am still trying to get used to that. We are
really separated from the mission. I mean we are in a zone, but not really. Everything
we do is a little different and so it is a different point of view. I am really
learning a lot and I know this will even help me more in the future.<br />
<br />
The first week of the transfer we are busy with the old missionaries and then
with the new ones coming in. We have new leadership training meeting right when
transfers are over. And then from there we were just running. We had departing
missionary testimony and dinner with<br />
them. It's really weird to be part of all the going home stuff without actually
going home. We also had to take everyone to the airport and then pick up the
new missionaries. It's pretty cool to see the whole scale in one day, going
home and coming in!<br />
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We still have a proselyting area we are responsible for. It's a YSA ward. And
so that is pretty sweet! This transfer we will actually have quite a bit of
time to proselyte. So, that is still cool all the normal missionary stuff we
get to do. When zone conferences come up in April we will be very busy, but
until then we just mostly have exchanges with the ZLs! It is fun to work closer
with the office staff and with President and Sister Snow. You definitely get to
know them a lot better!<br />
<br />
We have had some pretty cool miracles happen in our area. And some cool stuff.<br />
<br />
One night we were just out visiting people and we got this text. It was at 6:20
at night and the text had been sent like two hours earlier. But because our
phones are dumb, we received it late. Which was a miracle in it of itself
because the text was this random guy asking to meet us at 6pm and we had had a
set lesson, but that fell through and so when we received the text we were open
and able to meet. He met us at a park that was conveniently located by a church
that was open due to mutual. And so everything fell into place to meet with him
in the chapel. We had a super awesome spiritual lesson. The member we had with
us was able to relate to him, and so we set him for baptism and he was super
excited to change his life around. Sadly, we haven't seen him since but we keep
praying he will return our calls.<br />
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Another one was with a member, the appointment had fallen through and we asked
the member to pick any door in the complex, and she picked a door and as we
walked over to it a lady was about to enter. We began talking to her and it
turned out that our member and this ladies brother were like super good friends
in North Dakota. It was just so cool out of all the doors to knock on that was
the one and with that member! Man miracles happen!<br />
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We had another crazy lesson with a lady who is really caught up in her own
church. When we went back to the return appointment she had two of her
"friends" over from San Diego. My companion and I just felt a bad
spirit. We knew that these two men were going to try to bash and argue with us.
We talked a little bit about random stuff and the one guy opened us up with a prayer.
The whole time he was praying, I was praying in my heart to know what to say. I
began to think about my study that morning. I had just read in the Book of
Mormon where Alma and Amulek contend with Zeezrom and how they discerned his
bad intentions and were able to testify to him. The Lord gave us strength. After
the prayer I said, “We are here to share with you what we believe and know to
be true. We are not here to argue and if you want to argue we will leave. We
will only share with you these things if you truly want to know about what we
believe." My companion said that the girl we are teaching, she is in her
early 20s freaked out. He said her expression was just priceless. I never saw
it but I guess she was surprised that we were able to discern what these men
were here for and that we didn't believe the story that they were just guests
visiting her.<br />
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During the lesson, one of the guys who had been the most talkative at first,
never talked for the remainder of the lesson and it actually seemed like he was
sincerely thinking about what we said. But the other guy, of course, tried to
argue with us throughout the lesson. It was amazing to see how the Lord blessed
us to confound him at every turn. He didn't accept our message, but my testimony
grew that day as I saw the Lord use his servants just as he had in the Book of
Mormon. We are still working with the lady and we hope and pray she comes
around. In our next lesson we will see if we keep teaching her or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I hope you all have a great week! It's so crazy how fast the time really goes!
I know these last 6 months will just fly by and I hope and pray that I can
accomplish all that the Lord has for me to do!<br />
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Love Elder Clark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sorry it has taken me so long to get an email out. I have a few
extra minutes before bed and so I wanted to make sure I wrote one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am sure most of you know, but I was called as the new
assistant to President Snow and I am with my MTC comp, Elder Thorne! It's so
sick! It's super fun being with him a year and a half later. I have seen him a
bit, but we have never served around each other. We always are just laughing
about the good times we had in the MTC. Man those were the days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last week Wednesday night I went in with the APs while my comp
three-packed with other missionaries and was with members and I was gone until
Saturday afternoon when transfers came out. It was fun to be in a three-pack
with the APs. We had a fun time, and I got to meet the ward a bit. I am serving
in a YSA Ward and so everyone is super cool! We had a meeting with the president
about transfers and got that stuff all ready. It is pretty neat to see all the
work that goes on behind the scenes. There sure is a lot that needs to get done
just to run a mission. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was then able to go back to my ward for Sunday and say goodbye
to everyone! That was fun. I had a few good families I really liked there, but
I had been there such a short span of time I wasn't really super close to them.
But there are some pretty sweet investigators there that will be getting
baptized soon! And then Sunday night the APs got me. I was all packed up and I
officially moved out. On Monday, we had our weekly meeting with the president
and worked out all the transfer stuff we needed to. Afterwards, Elder Thorne
and I picked up a bench and weights to bring to our apartment! We are going to
get jacked in the mornings! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">We got to meet with a super awesome member that I will talk more
about and send some pictures, but let's just say it is awesome! I'll keep it a
surprise--haha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">This week is a very busy one! Already today we went to the
temple and then trained a new district leader and sister training leader, went
to the departing missionary testimony meeting/ dinner and then had some awesome
lessons and then planned all the rides for the airport tomorrow, dropping
people off and picking up people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">We taught an investigator tonight who is so awesome. He is 18
and was talking to kids at school and he taught them the plan of salvation. One
guy was sort of contesting him on it and he was like, man you can just go to
the second kingdom if you want then! It was so, so funny! He is going to be a
great missionary! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am excited to serve the Lord even more and I hope and pray I
can bring to the table what the mission needs! There is so much work to be
done! We had 97 baptisms as a mission this last month. And so it's only up from
here! I love you all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What a crazy week! So I am guessing you are all wondering why you are getting
this email on a Tuesday not a Monday. Well our mission changed P-day to
Tuesday......it's a new thing they are trying to help us be more effective.....hahah,
just kidding, but really our P-day was switched to Tuesday this week because we
had a general authority visit our mission. It was Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge
of the Seventy. He wrote the Fourth Missionary talk for any that were wondering
who he is. There is so, so, so much I want to share in this letter. I am
reaching a point in my<br />
mission where I only have six months left and it's time that I really begin to
realize that I am weak and God is able. That will hopefully be a reoccurring
theme that I focus on for the rest of my mission. A motto I had for when I was
in Lake Havasu was "Thine, not mine". And that is something we all
have to realize. "The only way to win is to lose" (Corbridge). We had
some pretty neat miracles this past week and I want to share those as well as
some of the revelation I have received and share some things I have learned on
my mission and some goals I have.<br />
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I don't even know where to start! Man oh man. I guess I will start with some things
I have learned and then go on with some miracles and Elder Corbridge and my
goals!<br />
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I have now been a zone leader for 5 transfers and I cannot tell you how
grateful I am for this opportunity I have had to serve; not only the wards and
investigators in the areas I have served in, but as well as the two zones I
have been in as a zone leader. Coming into my mission, leaders were people I
looked up to, but held fear and felt apart from them. And you never really
realize all that they do until you are in their position. I have never been so
tired as I have been as a zone leader. We are always going, going, going! But,
I have learned some important principles of leadership: <br />
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1) Effective Administrator - this can often be overlooked in church leadership
as being a minister is the great focus. But an effective administrator can help
the work become much more efficient with some thought beforehand and some solid
planning. Think ahead and<br />
strategically plan for what's next.<br />
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2) The second is being a minister - this is so important. Anyone can be an
administrator. But to be a minister you just do all the things of an
administrator and still put aside your own needs and responsibilities and
listen to the spirit to know what those in your stewardship may need. It's
putting your missionaries first. It is being in the moment. It is showing love
and charity.<br />
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3) The hardest one for me, is effective delegation and sharing responsibility.
I just try to do too darn much! I need to step back and look at things that I
can give others to do. It is a principle of<br />
empowerment. Others will grow as you give them assignments to fulfill. But not
merely just giving an assignment because it's a good leadership principle, but
giving them an assignment that is really important and helping them see how it
plays into the bigger picture.<br />
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4) Face to face leadership - this is similar to being a minister, but a principle
I have just recently learned. It's taking time to talk to those that look to you
for strength. Pulling them aside when you discern they are struggling and
listening to their concerns. It's spending time with them and working side by
side with them as King Benjamin and his son did! It is about caring about them
enough to sacrifice for them. "Treat your men like your beloved sons and
they will follow you into the deepest valley".<br />
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5) The last one includes a great attitude, lots of energy, and exceeding
faith!! This is so vital. Even when you are tired and discouraged you have to
turn that over to the Lord and have faith that miracles will happen and as you
do that, those that follow you will grow in their faith. A great attitude can
change anything. My middle school football coach used to always say “it's all
about attitude and effort.” In Preach My Gospel, it says our attitude is a reflection
for the love of our savior!<br />
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We had some pretty cool miracles this week!<br />
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The first was while we were blitzing (proselyting in another missionaries area)
a sisters area. We had a teacher with us, and we prayed to find people that
would be open to our message. As we were walking, we saw as lady on a second
level of an apartment complex and we started talking to her. We asked her if we
could share a quick video with her that we had on our iPad. But before we could
show it to her she started talking about a crazy miracle she had had. They were
shopping at Walmart, she and her two little kids, and they missed the bus home
and so they were waiting for the next bus with all their groceries and a fed ex
truck pulled over and offered to deliver their groceries to their house. So
when we came across them they were in awe looking at the groceries at their
doorstep and so we helped carry in the groceries and showed her the video! In
the beginning of the video (Power of Hope) she stopped it, and freaked out. A
picture of a guy in the beginning of the video looked just like the father of
her son. And then she loved the video and we taught her the restoration and she
just accepted everything. The spirit was so strong. We honestly hardly taught
much, just testified a couple times and she talked and bore her testimony. And
then a moment that hit me really hard.... She said in the middle of the lesson
out of nowhere "Thank you for being obedient". I was so hit by that. It was out of nowhere
and taught a great lesson. So back tracking a little, as we began talking to
her, just after showing the video, I felt a strong impression to ask her to be
baptized on March 5th, but I felt the chance never came up. And so throughout
the lesson I was in the verge of setting her with a date and inviting her. At
one point I almost just randomly blurted out "Will you be baptized on the
5th of March?", but I didn't. Near the end of our visit, I did open my
mouth and committed her to be baptized on March 5th. Her 8 year old son shouted
yes and so did she! It was a great miracle to see the Lord working through us!<br />
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When we told the sisters about it they shared with us that they had tried to
stop by there for the last couple weeks, but she was never home. I know the Lord
answers our prayers and I know that based on our obedience and faith the Lord
will bless us. "Thank you for being<br />
obedient." - What a powerful statement to hear. Obedience is the first law
of everything. This life is about living the Celestial law. It is so important
that we prepare and be obedient always because we never know what things will
go undone if we are not a ready and worthy vessel.<br />
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Another miracle happened in our own area. We received a member referral for some
of their neighbors that were from Germany. We did a split and so I wasn't there
for the original lesson, but we had a lesson last night and so I was able to
meet her. My companion and a priest in the ward preparing to go on his mission
went by to contact the referral. She was nice to them and accepted to learn
more. But she also asked if they could help her find someone that would be
willing to live with her and watch her 3 year old son as she worked. She is a single
mother. And so they said they would ask around. In priest quorum in Sunday the
priest was telling his priest advisor about the story. We had been teaching elder’s
quorum and were not present for that part, but after church the priest advisor
came up to us and asked about this referral. He told us that just last night he
had been praying for a friend that was getting evicted and that he could find a
place for her. And that that next day the Lord had answered his prayer! Wow!
How amazing is God!<br />
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So now to get to what Elder Corbridge shared with us. All the zone leaders and
stls had a meeting with him Sunday night and then the whole mission is heard
from him yesterday and then again today. There are just a few things I would
like to highlight from what he shared and from what our mission president
shared.<br />
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The very things that Elder Corbridge shared with us stemmed from the hymn, How
Firm a Foundation. He had us sing all seven verses and had us focus on the
words. It was very interesting as I had never really paid that much attention
to the words. Here are some phrases he highlighted and a couple that stood out
to me:<br />
" We are weak, but thou are able", "when through the deep waters
I call thee to go, the rivers of sorrow shall not thee o'erflow", "
when through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, my grace, all<br />
sufficient, shall be they supply. The flame shall not hurt thee, I only design"<br />
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That last one really made sense. Think of all of those that withstood fire in
the scriptures. Elder Corbridge shared a dream where he had to carry a canoe on
his shoulders all the way back to his ranch. He said the whole time he was
aware of how heavy and hard it was to carry, but he never got tired. And then
he said at one part he had to crawl through mud and he said he never got muddy.
I just think about how we can be in the world and not of the world and how the Lord
will help us as we are founded on him and his doctrine. He also talked about a
way of thinking above the line.<br />
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Above the line: accountable, take initiative, see a need, own it and take
responsibility, make plan, and then execute that plan.<br />
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Below the line: it's not my job, it's not my fault, and someone else will do
it.<br />
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I really loved this way of thinking. It's so, so true, he talked about if a
priest is struggling in the ward and you don't help him because it's not your job,
that is below the line. It is about going above and beyond. Which leads into
something else he said that I really liked. He said his son’s goal for his
mission was to leave everyone he came into contact with better then when he
found them. I remember dad and grandpa always talking about whenever you borrow
something you always return it better then you found it. And so that really
rang true to me. I feel I try to make people smile and feel better, but now it's
a goal I really want to set for myself.<br />
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And so the last thing I will share today is from a story that President Snow
shared. There was a king who placed a boulder in the road, and he watched to
see what would happen. A horse drawn carriage came by and the teamster was mad
at the laziness of whoever left the rock in the road and so he left it and went
around it. Then a soldier came by and wasn't looking and tripped over the rock
and fell and complained about the lazy person that left it there and he went around
it as well. And this happened all day with all different sorts of people. And
then finally the miller’s daughter was walking home in the evening and saw the
boulder. With much effort she moved it out of the way so no one got hurt. Where
the rock had been, there was a box of treasure. He talked about the boulders in
our life that hold us from taking the opportunities to grow or learn or help someone
in need. We all have boulders that we use as excuses not to take opportunities.
Boulders, or limits, are preconceived notions of an unmotivated mind! We have
to engage in this work!<br />
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I love the chance I have to learn so much on my mission. I hoped this helped.
Don't forget to pray for your own missionary opportunities.<br />
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Elder Clark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started talking to him about the gospel and gave him a Book of Mormon. We also
set up a time to go and visit him. So, Monday night we go by his house to visit
him and he wasn’t home. But my comp remembered that this was a house our
bishopric didn’t want us to go by because they just wanted welfare. But, we had
stopped by because we weren’t sure if it was this house and they weren’t home
anyway. So then we went to his neighbors to try them out and we talked to them
for a little bit but they weren’t interested in talking to us. And so as we
were walking back, the guy showed up and so we started talking to him. My comp
began to ask him if we could come in and talk to him and share a message and as
he was speaking. I just got this very bad feeling. I was hoping the guy would
say no; that he was busy. But I stayed quiet and he said sure, we could come
in. The weird part was the rest of his family stayed in the car and didn’t come
out. We just followed him into his house and as we walked in he said, "Welcome
to my dark house". It was like 7:00 at night and it was pitch black
in his house. The only light came from the street light outside through the
opened door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and wanting to get out immediately. He said yes, but then he said “Can I get a
hug first?” Now, he was a middle-aged man, about 5'7”, so we were a
little taken back by that. But, he hugged me and my comp both at the same time;
one arm for each of us and as he hugged us he grabbed the back of our necks
hard and squeezed! And then he said, after letting go of us, “You don’t want to
talk to me. I am a very, very, very bad person. I hurt people. I don’t do nice
things. No one loves me. I hurt people. I am a very, very, very bad
person." He just kept repeating that over and over again. I have served in
ghetto areas on my mission and have walked ghettos streets at night, but this
was the first time on my whole mission I was actually scared. I thought at any
moment he could pull out a knife or a gun and that would be that. I wasn’t sure
whether I should try and fight him right there and take the first strike or to
just stand there. So, I said a quick prayer and my comp said, "We respect
that and have a good night." and we left!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to that house, he had had a bad feeling, as well. I learned a great lesson that
day on how important it is to follow the spirit and that it will truly warn and
protect us. We just have to follow it. At times we don’t know if the spirit is
really with us, but I can truly testify that it is if we are doing all that we
are supposed to do. Be careful, and listen to the spirit! I know that even
though we didn’t heed the prompting right away, the Lord still protected us and
truly there were angels in that room that night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lot of member referrals and that has been really cool, so hopefully those will
start to turn out well. We had a really cool miracle this last week. We had
been teaching that guy that a member had just randomly called us and asked to
give a blessing to. He brought his wife to the last lesson and she was super
nice and now they are both getting baptized in February! It was so, so neat. We
talked about temple marriage and eternal families and we are going to take them
to the temple grounds in a couple weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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upcoming week we have the first broadcast of its kind from Salt Lake for all
full time missionaries! It should be sweet. We also have a General Authority
coming down next week to talk to our mission, so there are a lot of exciting
things ahead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638780511152674096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4635897089135544491.post-61569959253768537052016-01-11T15:38:00.000-08:002016-03-20T15:39:07.196-07:00New Year<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.0pt;">
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more and more! The mission life never takes a break. It’s wonderful though!
This week we had lots and lots of miracles. I am forever grateful for all the
answers to prayers I receive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we just had a crazy, crazy day! We saw a lady get out of her car so we walked
up to her and started talking. She invited us in before we could even really
say much. We figured she was a member or something and as we started talking we
found that she wasn’t and wasn’t really part of any church. She just attended
AA meetings, and so we had a great little lesson with her. Then when I came
back to the return appointment with my companion and taught her the first
lesson and we asked her to be baptized and she said yes right away! And
then we set her with a date, and she said yes right away! It was so crazy, and
even funnier was when she called us a few days later and she was like, “I
didn’t even realize I said yes. I don’t think I am ready!” We told her it was
the spirit and we would help her! We are seeing her tomorrow so we will see how
that goes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walking around and then our phone rang. It was a member and he had an awesome
referral. That night we met him at the church, but we had another appointment
at that time and so a member came and got me to go to that one and I left elder
Thorne, who was just on exchanges, with this referral guy and he gave him a
church tour and had an awesome lesson with him! It was a huge crazy miracle!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to maintain the momentum. Also our mission is making a really big push to work
better with our wards and help the members to start doing more missionary work!
And man, that is one of the hardest things ever to do, but we have a really
great WML so we will see how things go! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to talk about my new area and my new companion. But I have really been loving
my new area. I like Vegas. I miss being in small towns with less traffic and
quicker street lights but the work is progressing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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small area. It takes less than five minutes to get around it, so we are going
to start biking our area! We have started seeing lots of success, but it has
been a little frustrating. We are finding lots of very, very flakey people. Most
of our area is apartments and so it’s pretty transient. But recently we have
seen lots of miracles in finding more solid people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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area, and participate in 7 baptisms of people I had taught there. The Lord
truly blessed us and it was so neat to see the changes they all made in their
lives. I had the privilege of baptizing three of them, and it was so neat to be
in the water for a little longer and to really soak in what was happening! We
had a great time and we went to lunch with some members I knew down there. That
was a really fun and spiritual day. My comp was with a priest all day. The
priest was a champ as we picked him up at 6:30 a.m. I also was able to be with
my old companion, Elder Anderson and catch up with him on the drive and get
ideas from him. I was talking to him on the way back about how I wanted to find
more solid investigators. When I got back to my area for dinner we had a
wonderful dinner, and the couple we were eating with had taken a guy into their
home for the last few weeks and basically adopted him. He has been on the
streets his whole life. He lost his parents at 11 and has been alone since and
has had a really tough life, but he has been making changes and coming to
church and he said he wants to get baptized! It was one of the most spiritual
nights ever. The sister, which he calls mom, was crying and the spirit was so
strong! So we are really excited for him and have been praying for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a referral we went to go see and he wasn't home and so we knocked on his
neighbors door and it was a guy from Grand Junction and so we talked about that.
He was a cool guy! He said he was looking for a new church and would be
baptized. It’s been pretty awesome. The Lord is really blessing us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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everyone in leadership. He announced the new mission vision for this year and
dressed up as rocky and did a rap song. Haha He was so funny! Then we had a
really awesome meeting with our zone. The day before the meeting, we set up
stops on the trail of a mountain to represent different times in Christ’s life.
We got the zone excited, and then met at 6:00 a.m. for the hike. The stops
included His birth, baptism, ministry, suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane,
death, and resurrection. As we were ascending up the trail, we talked about how
we have to raise our discipleship to be more like Christ if we want our members
to be better member missionaries. The district leaders took their districts
through the trail and at every stop had a little 5 minute thought to share. We
ended at the top where my comp and I gave a training and we had a brief
testimony meeting. It was a great time and people really felt the spirit. Some
even carried rocks up the last stretch to remember when Christ carried his
cross. I was deeply touched as I pondered more about my Savior! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tables at the church and the gym was split in half. One side was pitch black
and there was a cart that you put tables on to store them and I didn't see it
in the dark and total ate it over that and really banged up my knees and so I
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am going work harder than I ever have before and there is so much I want to
change about myself before I come home. So nobody get too excited - I still
have 6 months to change and become better! I love my Savior and I am so
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Hope that everyone had a great Christmas! My companion and I had a great one!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">So we have been transferred into
a new area. And there has been so many miracles we have seen since we have got
here! It has been pretty hectic getting used to our new area and zone. But we
have had a great time! </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">The lord truly has been blessing
us! I don't have much time to share many stories, but I wanted to share a
thought I shared in Sunday at sacrament meeting. I didn't use it word for word
but these were my thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">1 In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the
light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." Genesis
1:1-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">The darkness proceeded the
light. That is a principle that happens so much in our lives. Before great
spiritual experiences challenges arise. I cannot tell you how many times the
week before an investigator is to get baptized something comes up that tries to
hinder them from that blessing. Darkness always proceeds the light, but light
will always prevail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">I remember one day returning
home and taking refuge in our home as a storm was brewing outside. As the storm
got progressively worse we felt safe in the confines of our home. But soon
enough the entire house went black, and our power went out. We had no light.
But thankfully we were able to light candles and have an enjoyable evening in
the candle light. We had enough light to see, and it was fun for that one
night. But when our power returned I was grateful for the invention of the </span><span style="line-height: 21.3333px;">light bulb</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;"> and the electricity we had. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so today I wish to speak of
the light we have inside ourselves. We all have been given the light of Christ.
Giving us the ability to choose right and wrong, and to be influenced by the
Holy Spirit. But once we are baptized we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to
have his spirit with us continually. However it is conditional on our obedience.
That light which is in us can be however dim or however bright we allow it to
be. Just as the candles still lit our path and gave us vision. It was limited. We
had to take a candle with us everywhere. And blow it out when we weren't around
for fear of burning our house down. But with our power back on. All it took was
a flick of a light switch to have the whole house lit up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elder Uchtdorf said in last
general conference "Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the
light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly
Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would
expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">Let us not be limited to the
norms or customs of society. Or the ideals of man, or our own rationalization,
but rather let us experience greater light and hope through our savior Jesus
Christ. Let our faith burn bright and steady as a </span><span style="line-height: 21.3333px;">light bulb</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;"> and we will not be dismayed.
The great part about celestial light is that the power never goes out, that
power is our savior. And he is ever ready to welcome us and give us light. All
we have to do is plug into that power. We plug into that power by the greatness
of our faith. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elder Neil l Anderson said, Faith
emits a spiritual light, and that light is discernible. Faith in Jesus Christ
is a gift from heaven that comes as we choose to believe and as we seek it and
hold on to it. Your faith is either growing stronger or becoming weaker. Faith
is a principle of power, important not only in this life but also in our
progression beyond the veil. By the grace of Christ, we will one day be saved
through faith on His name. The future of your faith is not by chance, but by
choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">If we do not have faith it is by
our own choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elder Uchtdorf once said, “If we
make no effort to believe, we are like the man who unplugs a spotlight and then
blames the spotlight for not giving any light. Are we blaming the wrong object
for the lack of our faith or are we asking "Lord is it I?” </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">If we look at how the </span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 21.3333px;">light bulb</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;"> was invented we can learn the tireless efforts we must have to keep our faith burning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the period from 1878 to 1880
Edison and his associates worked on at least three thousand different theories
to develop an efficient incandescent lamp. By January 1879, at his laboratory
in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance,
incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin
platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from
melting. Still, the lamp only burned for a few short hours. In order to improve
the bulb, Edison needed all the persistence he had learned years before in his basement
laboratory. He tested thousands and thousands of other materials to use for the
filament. He even thought about using tungsten, which is the metal used for
light bulb filaments now, but he couldn't work with it given the tools available
at that time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">The electric light has caused me
the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate
experiments," he wrote. "I was never myself discouraged, or inclined
to be hopeless of success. I cannot say the same for all my associates." Genius
is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edison decided to try a
carbonized cotton thread filament. When voltage was applied to the completed
bulb, it began to radiate a soft orange glow. Just about fifteen hours later,
the filament finally burned out. Further experimentation produced filaments
that could burn longer and longer with each test. By the end of 1880, he had
produced a 16-watt bulb that could last for 1500 hours and he began to market his
new invention. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Luckily we don't have to try and
find 1000 different ways to grow our own light, but we can turn to the one that
will never go out. As we exercise our own faith we can grow into a beacon of
light to all others. Let us tirelessly search for that light. To study his
words and pray unceasingly in his name. As we do this we will be like a light
bulb that will never go out. It will not happen overnight, but as we chose
light over and over again we will "grow brighter and brighter until the
perfect day." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let the lower lights be burning;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Send a gleam across the wave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some poor fainting, struggling
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16pt;">You may rescue, you may save.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas 2015 Jammies<br />Elder Clark and Elder Valles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone White Elephant Gift Exchange<br />Christmas, 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's Christmas!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating Balut at a Filipino restaurant with Elder Valles</td></tr>
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