Spiritually Fed

Hello All,

 

Today was a temple day! As always, it was great to step inside the holy halls of the Seattle Temple and feel the Spirit of the Lord. I feel spiritually fed and uplifted and am ready to go out and do the Lord's work.

This was kind of a slow week. We taught many "other" lessons to people not of our faith, and found a few new investigators, but it seems that the people that the Lord has blessed us with to teach simply are not keeping any of the commitments we extend to them, including meeting with us. But the Lord has promised us that there are people ready for the gospel and we just need to go out and find them.

 

We do have one investigator named Doug that we have met with a few times. I feel that he is the closest we have to a progressing investigator. We found him a few weeks ago. He was the last door of an apartment building. He said that he had met with missionaries in the past and said that we could come back. So when we were finally able to go back, he kind of rambled on about things that didn't necessarily pertain to the gospel, but he was willing to read the Book of Mormon. When we went back yesterday, he had "researched" our Church a little more and had many questions, not necessarily wanting to anti us, but because he was simply curious. He also said that he was impressed at how we handled ourselves as he rambled on in the first lesson and how we answered his questions without fighting. He said that our Church had something that he wanted to look into more and basically committed himself to read the Book of Mormon and told us a good day to come back. So we'll see where he goes. I am remaining hopeful with him. 

 

We had our mission Christmas party on Friday night. All in all, it was a good time being with other missionaries that I have come to become good friends with. We had an excellent dinner, which was followed by a short musical program. But the main event was the movie. "17 Miracles" was in one word, amazing! It is the story of the Willie and Martin handcart company traveling to the Salt Lake Valley. It shows the dedication and faith of those early pioneer ancestors of the Chruch and some of the many miracles that the Lord provided to help many of them get across the dangerous plains. It showed the sacrifices that the pioneers went through in order to reach Zion so they could be with the Saints. By the end of it, there wasn't a dry eye in the chapel where we watched it (including mine). It shows all of us that no matter our trials and struggles, the Lord is always watching out for us. The movie opened my eyes to the many miracles that the Lord has shown me because "if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles. And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust. Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth." (Mormon 9:19-21)

 

Interviews were yesterday. It is always great talking to President Larkin as he gives us encouragement, advice, and support in our missionary service. Well, things are going as well as they can. The Lord will continue to bless us because the Church is true!

 

~Elder Fetzer