Well, here goes. Last full week. Last week was a good one. The only down side is we had no lessons with members present. However, the Priesthood was called to repentance by our ward mission leader and the high priest group leader and we several people signed up to go out with us this week and a couple more who said they were going to look at their schedules. The ward really is very willing to help out we just have never been able to find a super effective way to coordinate our efforts and our schedules.
Saturday night we finally got to see an investigator we hadn't seen for several weeks, J. He was discouraged and frustrated because he recognizes he's not living right, he fears what will happen if he were to die right now, and when he shares that with his friends and family and in a way calls them to repentance they just laugh at him. He also said he gets frustrated because people see the Mormons as a different religion, "like they worship another God. But it's the same God! They just have another side to it." He says he wants to make changes in his life but he feels no support from anyone. We encouraged him, promised our support and God's, and he accepted to get married and baptized by December 13th. He came to church the next day and we have a return appointment tomorrow. I think he's finally hit the point where he is ready to do whatever it takes to get right with God. I'm excited for him!
V has been telling everyone about his baptism in two weeks. He didn't make it to church because he got called into work, but it sounds like he has every intention of making it to that baptismal date. We just need to follow up on smoking every day and make sure he stays strong.
I wanted to share some of my feelings about family history for a moment. Last week we took some time to be on family search and I found three names to do temple work for. Just like that! When was the last time you were on familysearch? We had a training on it last week. A few months ago there would be changes all the time but recently those have slowed down. It's about as good as it's going to get. And trust me, it's good! Now-a-days you can do so much just from your computer. You can search records, index (they're adding 1.7 million names a day) and don't assume that because you looked before and didn't find anything that you wont' find anything now. Italy recently asked the church to photograph all of their records. That's 200 million names. 200 million people who are waiting for their work to be done. 200 MILLION!! So get on familysearch, ask your family history consultant what you can do, and go do some work of salvation! We're finding more veery day.
This is going to be a good week. Good things are going to happen. Hope you all have a great one as well!
Love,
Elder Lofthouse
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