2/17/14

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. We got something like 6 inches of snow on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. And today we have another fresh 4 inches of snow to shovel for the members and our investigators and anybody else that we see outside shoveling, we will go and help. It is a really great way of serving the people and finding new people to teach. Elder Ferney and I will walk around town with our snow shovels in hand and just start shoveling, some times without their permission. It also helps keep us warm, and it’s a great way of exercise. After we are finished with the library we will be doing exactly this. Fun!!!



Service at the Sun Prairie History  Museum
rendered a great find! A large replica bullet that
weighs a ton (well almost - I'm just really strong).

We had another great week. We had more success tracting again this week and we also had a couple of powerful lessons with a few of our less actives. On Sunday we had three less actives come to church, for all three hours. We were so thrilled and it was great to see them. I think the topic for sacrament meeting was also very inspired. The speakers talked about families and the Proclamation to the World. This hit home for one of the less actives who is in the middle of a struggling marriage and has a son who is not a member (we are working on beginning to teaching him the lessons). It was wonderful and the talks were well written and well delivered.

Chinglish exists even in Wisconsin (DVD instructions)!

A great experience I had this week on Saturday came from a prompting. Elder Ferney and I were tracting on Saturday night, we had planned on tracting from 6pm to 7pm and then heading over to a members home for a recent convert lesson and dinner with the family. Around 6:30pm I suddenly felt that we needed to stop tracting and find something else to do. Since we had already visited all the people we had wanted to for that day I thought "who else can we visit, what else are we supposed to do?" Regardless, without hesitation I told Elder Ferney that we are done tracting for the day and that we are heading to the car now, and not knocking on one more door. When we arrived at the car another prompting came to visit Jeff. Jeff is a potential investigator that has been on our potentials list for many months (before I arrived in DeForest). I have only met Jeff once and we have a recurring problem when we try and visit him, He is never home! We have tried nights, mornings, mid-day, weekends and weekdays, seemingly everything to try and talk with him and set up an appointment. So when the prompting came to go and visit Jeff, we were both confused because we assumed that he wouldn't be home. To our glorious surprise, Jeff was home and we had a great but short talk with him and we finally set up the appointment that we had been hoping for for many months. Hurray! We had a wonderful recent convert lesson that night, and a great dinner that made my belly happy.

A family made us a 16 inch pizza so we cut it in
half and had a feast!

 

Scripture for the week: Mosiah 1:6-7

 6 O my sons, I would that ye should remember that these sayings are true, and also that these records are true. And behold, also the plates of Nephi, which contain the records and the sayings of our fathers from the time they left Jerusalem until now, and they are true; and we can know of their surety because we have them before our eyes.

 7 And now, my sons, I would that ye should remember to search them diligently, that ye may profit thereby; and I would that ye should keep the commandments of God, that ye may prosper in the land according to the promises which the Lord made unto our fathers.

Thank you all for your prayers and have a wonderful week.

Love,

Elder Luymes