FAM,
Sounds like life is going good for you guys! That's what I like to hear!!!! Matt I'm sorry you have been sick my man!!!! I hope you get better soon! When do you get your pads?!?!?! Did you give the family home evening yet?! This week your assignment to read and teach the family is pages 4 and 5 of preach my gospel. Look up all the scriptures and activities in it too! It will bless your mission and your life right now!!! And if Matt is doing it the rest of you three better be doing it!!! Sounds like two a days went well! Football, what a trip! crazy to think about football! Elder Galindo's knee still bugs him so........ I enjoy re-reading that article! See if you can't print it out!
Our family is going to do some serious missionary work when I get home! You guys got to be equipped and know how so we will see success. Sounds like Nate is going to have some serious fun times this week! Nate you ought to spend time with the fam when they get there. Sure it would be nice if we could just have everyone be together at once, but just have vision in your decisions.
This week was pretty crazy. This ward/area is really coming alive, the Lord is blessing us and hastening his work! I remember on the drive over here, they were telling me about how slow the area is. Literally the last thing President Hall ever said to me was "Titusville is the toughest ward in the mission, you've got a big job" but really all it needed was a little spark. I have a testimony of attitude and enthusiasm! I have a testimony of being passionate about the Lords work. If you are passionate about your missionary work, the spirit bears witness, and you bear fruit. Yesterday stronger families in the ward got together and had a planning meeting for cottage meetings they are going to start! It was unlike any missionary effort I have ever seen from a group of members. It was like the district in real life!!! (Hate to burst your bubble, but the district is fake) It was really a tender mercy of the Lord to inspire these members the way he did. I'm grateful for my fearless companion. He's kind of a know-it-all, but he has the best intentions. He gives me opportunities for patience, and then I am able to see the desires of his heart. I forget how fresh he really is.
Also yesterday we had the opportunity to have a dinner and lesson with the H. family. They are already one of the ones I know I will get close to. Brother H's dad has been dying for.... Since I got here and we had the opportunity to teach a lesson about the Atonement of Christ. (They have three sons, one a priest who we've been taking out with us) We really had an opportunity to teach the atonement and share with them how it helps us overcome our challenges. I was able to share stories about Grammy dying and also grandpa dying. I bore testimony of how they were both really hard and really sad, but the difference the understanding of the gospel is from when I was 13 to now and how it benefited me. How the gospel brings us peace, how the plan of salvation is truth that we can have a sure knowledge we will live with our loved ones again. The family was in tears, and I realized how the gospel has grown my capacity to love. Alma 38 Bridle all your passions that ye may be filled with love. When we mourn with those that mourn and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, we are keeping our covenants and we can be edified with them, through the Atonement of Christ. We left to go teach, and as we were driving, they called us saying they had just received a call that he had passed away. The Lord needed all of us to have that experience, and grow one step closer to knowing our savior. That is why bad things happen to good people, and that is why foundations of Christ are so important to have in place like the ones that the H's have laid for their kids and the one the Gottfredson's laid for their kids, because "they cannot fall". Unbreakable spiritual strength is attainable in the worst, as well as the best of times. These things you can be certain of.
I love you guys tons. Tons more to say. I am honestly the happiest I've ever been. Love ya!
ELDER Gottfredson
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