April 4, 2016
Dear Family and Friends
Missionary work is
crazy! if you have read my letters, served a mission yourself or have
talked with one about what they do lately you will discover we are crazy
and I am no exception, so why do I do what I do, well you could conclude
by my own statements that I am crazy or you could be more logical than
me and realize I am not crazy (clinically) but none the less here is the
awesome rundown of this past week.
Monday was
awesome! We started a new Book of Mormon challenge as a mission. this is
almost identical to the one we started when I first came our we are
focusing on Jesus Christ his names titles and attributes, then the
Doctrine of Christ and what The Lord says, IE thus saith the Lord
"......' so that is going to be awesome so far it is. Well that night we
taught the Arviso Family and it was awesome we taught the plan of
Salvation and they felt the power of their need as a family to
follow God and the husband Xavier isn't a member so he is now praying
about baptism, and we should be setting him for a day soon
Tuesday was a blast we did service at the Stuhr Pioneer museum stacking
wood for their wood piles and that was fun we got to use a golf cart
thingy with a trailer and they let us do that because we stack the wood
better than their employees so ya we are neat and organized even in simple wood piles. So we tried hard all day to find people but we did
get one short and brief lesson in with person about god being their
loving Heavenly Father and we got a return appointment!
Wednesday
we had a good day we got a new investigator family they actually live
in Kearney but they are staying here in GI since they are working here
in GI and their friend who owns the trailer is going to be on a trip for
a while so this is a cool miracle for us. We tried super hard all day
do contact people but most everything fell through
Thursday we had District meeting and it went all right I could have been
more simple in my training but I got nervous so I complicated
things more than necessary and I will do much better next time luckily I
have a week off with district meeting. Our trainings were on how the
Gospel blesses families and simplify the Restoration and also apply it
to teach different principles. So that was awesome. We did
splits with the Zone leaders in our area before they had to go to
Omaha for MLC (mission leadership council) #NotDLProblem so that was fun
but we still didn't teach any lesson even with covering twice the
ground. That evening however was awesome! So first we saw an
investigator Family Eugenia and Pepe they are Cubans and they are super
kind and loving people Elder Davey thought we needed to drop them and
the Branch counsel wasn't opposed but I didn't think it was the best
idea but we planned that out as our lesson, and so we were establishing
our purpose and teaching the restoration and as we got to the great
apostasy their was a disconnect in their minds and I said somethings
simple super simple but super key, "their must be twelve living apostles
in Christ's church" and they were like Huh?!? and I repeated it and
they were slowly grasping it and then we opened their scriptures and
showed them in their own bible where they called Matthias to be the
thirteenth apostle and who Christ's church was built on the foundation of
living apostles and prophets and evangelists and so forth and they got
it and they realized what we have that they don't have yet and so we set
up to go back on Friday. Then we saw the Arviso Family again and they
are progressing they read their assigned chapter and Xavier knows he
wants to and needs to be baptized and we doesn't know what day but we
are going to set him again and then we taught them the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and they are starting to grasp how they will be blessed as a
family and it was awesome two fantastic lessons back to back.
Friday we went back and had a sweet follow up lesson with Eugenia and Pepe Gonzales and we showed them how to find GC so they could watch the Saturday morning session in their home and that was sweet then we set up a brief return appointment for Saturday after the session.
Friday we went back and had a sweet follow up lesson with Eugenia and Pepe Gonzales and we showed them how to find GC so they could watch the Saturday morning session in their home and that was sweet then we set up a brief return appointment for Saturday after the session.
Saturday was awesome the session was tailored to them and Eugenia
watched it and loved it and then that night she found the Women's session
and watched it!
Sunday they came to the morning
session and they again loved it and asked if we could put a copy of the
family proclamation up on the wall in her daycare and yes we can just
like elder Nelson said just ask the missionaries so they love this
Gospel they aren't even baptized but they see how these teachings of
modern living apostles and prophets will bless the lives of those they
are about
--
Sincerely,--
Elder Logan Joseph Draper
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