Dear MOM,
We are teaching a lot, which is good. Lauren, our investigator, picked a baptismal date for june 7th!!! i am so excited for her! she really is remarkable. you want to talk about someone really letting the spirit into her heart, look at this woman. she comes from a very intense Baptist background, had a lot of faults with the church when we first started teaching her, but now she has really given her will to the Father and is doing awesome! she sent us a text a little while ago asking for some advice. the advice we gave her was to read the scriptures, and really that is the answer to everything. my whole mission i have had a fear of going less active after my mission because i hear so many stories of that happening and i just dont want that to be me. Well, i was sitting and thinking about it the other day and it hit me, if i dont want to be less active i need to read my scriptures. then another thought came, that is one of the easiest things in theory to do, but so many people dont make time for it. this gospel isnt the easiest thing to live, a disciple of Christ isnt the path of least resistance. the Scriptures talk about a "mighty change of heart" that is turning our heart to the Father saying "Thy will be done" and making those hard decisions. with that being said, reading your scriptures has so much power. simply reading those words have all the power to cast the adversary out of out mists. in the MTC Elder C. Scott Grow came and spoke about making the words of the scriptures our words. that is how we can forever have the spirit with us. speak with the power of Abinidi, Paul, Alma, Nephi, Isaiah (maybe not as confusing as Isaiah) but you get my drift. back to lauren, she is great and is reading with more intent and focus. the lord really gives us trials to strengthen us. i have a testimony of that, hands down.
we met with Ron this week, and he is awesome! he wants to go to the temple soon, so we are going to help him set up an appointment with the bishop to get that ready to go. he is a Chaplin for hospice and was talking to one of his patients and he quoted conference. he said that the words just came to him, flooded his mind as he says. isnt the spirit so cool? it was just what that man needed to hear and it built Ron’s testimony so much! i have met so many remarkable people here. this man is one of them!
this week the College Station 2nd Zone (CS2Z) had some pretty crazy things happen. one of the companionships were at each other’s throats this week. the other zone leader and i had to take them into a room and talk with them separately. Sterling, now i know what you meant when you said babysitting, crazy!
Well, congrats to the people that graduated Ariel, Chandler and Lacey! yall rock!!! Westly and Stacia, i am so stoked that you are moving to texas! dont be alarmed with the amount and size of American and Texas flags. Also, if you see the Texas flag flying at the same height as the American flag, that isnt a mistake. they do that here... it threw me for a loop at first. Sterling, i hope you make your house looks good for when i move in. ha…who knows. ha Chandler, good luck at your job. Dad, dont hurt yourself. i really do miss football! it will be good to watch the playoffs when i get home!
Well, this week we played soccer with the youth and it was really fun. one of the recently baptized YW brought her brother who has now starting calling himself a Mormon, but isnt baptized. he is a boss. we are going to start teaching him soon. then we needed another player so we asked this guy to play with us. we started talking to him who, and he was really interested. we are going to start teaching him this week!!! good things are happening over here
I Love all of you!!!
Elder Nymeyer
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