Yes it was great talking to you all! Yet at the
same time it also feels like it never happened. Everything goes so fast! But I
enjoyed seeing all your beautiful faces :) Oh and yes I did get the package!
Gracias :)
HAPPY 2015!!!!! Wow.
Another year behind us. Set some goals for yourselves this year!
Here's how Preach My
Gospel feels about goals :) "“Goals reflect the desires of our hearts and
our vision of what we can accomplish. Through goals and plans, our hopes are
transformed into action.” There ya have it, the beauty of new year resolutions.
Set some and discover the joy of improving yourself a little bit this year. We
could go into the story of the parable of the talents but I'm going to cut it
here so that I can tell you more about last week.
Such as.... L…'s
Baptism!!! Pictures are worth more than words so I'll be sure to send a few of
those. But yes, L… was a Christmas miracle. I have a testimony of fasting and
prayer. We fasted and prayed with her and God worked the miracles to allow her
to come back to church and to get permission to be baptized. She asked me to
baptize her and Elder Klodnicki confirmed her on Sunday! As she was
getting baptized her feet went out from under her a little bit. So she was a
little embarrassed that she had slipped but I just told her that it didn't
matter, as long as she goes under and comes up again! I don't think anyone
really noticed anyways haha. But she was really really happy afterwords. She
said she felt like a new person! President Rohrbach asked her to give the
closing prayer at the end of Sacrament meeting. She is terrified about talking
in front of a lot of people, but she said she would do it. She was nervous
but she did a great job! We are so proud of her! An amazing senior couple, the
Mudds, that had served in Dayton last year drove 7 hours from somewhere in
Illinois to come to her baptism. It was great to see them again too. But L… is
a total kingdom builder. She is going to be very capable to hold a calling and
serve a lot of people in the future!
Our zone is also doing
very well. We may have set a new record of new investigators. For the Christmas
week we found 73 new people to share the gospel with! We are quite pleased with
them. We are looking forward to a big week this week as well. With the
exception of a couple trunky sisters the whole zone is really catching fire to
hit the ground running with this new year. We are pumped to see what we do this
week. As a mission we baptized around 521 people! We have a great mission and
we love President and Sister Porter. They are the examples that I want to be
about how to live a life with great Faith in the Savior.
My testimony is this:
God is a God of Miracles!!! He has saved us time and time again. When we have
done all that we could for a week and it seems as though if only a few people
will come to church, in will walk several more unexpected investigators. We are
grateful for the many, many miracles that happen each day, if only there were
time to tell. But I love you for forever. Have a great week! Thanks for all
your prayers!
Love, Elder Kevin
Graf
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| I was getting creative with my camera and discovering new functions. |
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| Christmas Tree!! |
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Pictures of baptism :)
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the Mudds!!
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| Here's Elder Klodnicki, L... and Me! |
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| The Senior couple was a major part of her conversion and they helped her through a lot of difficult and dark times. They are Elder and Sister Mudd :) They are the coolest. |
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| This is our district again lookin' fresh hehe. |
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| Here is our D-town District after district meeting! go Dayton!!! |
