Cheyenne is
engaged?!?!?! That's so crazy!!!!
Sorry for not emailing
yesterday by the way. We had a mission leadership conference so we are having
pday today. Only we aren't really having a pday today because we had to plan
for zone meeting tomorrow and then I'm leaving in a few minutes to go to do exchanges
with the Greenville elders so that I can do a baptismal interview for one of
their investigators that is hopefully getting baptized this Saturday. We also
are hoping to baptize this Saturday. If all goes well the K…'s will be baptized
this weekend! The kids were baptized a few months ago but the parents needed
some extra time. They got married and we have been helping them to quit
smoking. We have been having some amazing lessons with them over the past week.
It's so hard to catch the whole family at home but God has made things work out
to where we've been able to teach them powerfully and they are changing. It's
amazing to see how the gospel can change people. If we see people how Heavenly
Father sees them then we won't have any room to doubt that people can change,
because of the incredible potential we all have within us.
Heavenly Father has
really been helping us. We've been so involved with the zone that it's only by
miracles that our own area has been having success. God has literally just
brought people to the church for us and has given us the opportunities to be
able to share the gospel. I believe in setting goals. We need to set goals for
ourselves because it shows God that we care about something, and it invokes His
grace to help us achieve our righteous desires. On Sunday we had a goal to find
2 new investigators. Throughout the day we weren't finding them. We kept
praying and asking, where are they? Where should we go? And we started to
listen better and better to "generous thoughts" or inspirations from
the spirit. It was getting darker and darker and the rain was pouring and it
was 8:30. We had a half hour before the end of the night and we came to several
part member families to try to visit. The first didn't work, the second didn't
let us in, but the third? An incredible family of many children that were
setting up a Christmas tree let us in and we love them tons already and they
are super ready for the gospel :) Set goals, plan to achieve them, have faith,
go to work, and watch how God will operate. I've seen that God often likes to
test us and make us step into the water before he will work His miracle and
cause the Red Sea to split.
Anyways, too many
exciting things are happening at once. The church is doing a Christmas
Initiative with a video called "He is the Gift". Watch it at christmas.mormon.org.
It will be playing in Times Square NY this Friday. Our Schedule for this week
is crazy;
Monday: Mission
Leadership council (8 hours of revelation from President Porter)
Today: Prep for zone
meeting and exchange with Greenville
Wednesday: Zone
Meeting and get the K…'s interviewed
Thursday; 3
Thanksgiving dinners
Friday: Weekly
planning session with the zone. (Basically a second zone meeting that we will
have to prepare)
Saturday and Sunday:
Hopefully a Baptism and Confirmation!!!
This is just on top of
the regular routine of craziness, not including prep for stake presidency
reports that we get to do and possibly another exchange and preparing for zone
conferences next week and trying to keep up with all our investigators. I feel
bad that I’m not good at writing but we are busy to say the least.
Above everything, I'm
grateful for all these experiences. I’m grateful for my family. And I'm
grateful for the Savior. I know that He lives and the spirit testifies of it!
Until next week!!
Elder Kevin Graf
