While
I was in Corvallis I told you a bit about Eric, well I got news
recently that he got baptized! That's always good news to get.
MOM. I have been absolutely failing in my duties as
your son. This week Bro. Marks, our ward mission leader, drove us to
the medford temple (which is about a three hour drive) and talked pretty
much the whole time. But he has written a bunch of books about raising
children, and "selecting a mate", he also wrote a program that taught
all of his children to read before kindergarten, he has eight kids who
were all extremely successful in highschool and continue to be
successful, one of his sons lives in our ward and recently started
homeschooling his six-or-so kids, another son is a professor on family
values or studies or something who actually uses Bro. Marks books in his
curriculum, and Bro. Marks is a fabulous public speaker, very wise and
pretty hysterical. All that hit me on the drive to the temple and I was
like, duh! He needs to get in contact with mom! So I'm going to send
you his reading program, and you should get in touch with him and fly
him out to your conference! Cuz it's cool to get flashy people like
John Bytheway, but what you really need is down to earth people like
Bro. Marks. ;)
We had a good week last week. We finally taught
Maya and Renee again, Nick is still progressing strong, We had an
awesome lesson with Holly and Ray, and we remade contact with a few
people who fell off the boat. The Lawtons are among our favorite
families to visit, They weren't able to come to church for various
reasons, one being that Bro. Lawton-an in home health care
provider-worked on Sunday. Now we've been praying ever since I got here
that they would be able to come to church. So on Saturday we had
dinner with them and he told us that the patient he took care of on
Sunday had passed away suddenly.... Hmm.
Anyways, we had a really cool experience yesterday.
We were biking along the highway in the dark when we came across a man
walking in the same direction. Elder Antig (I have to brag about him a
bit) always wants to talk to everyone he sees, so he slowed down and
started talking to this guy as he walked. He was cool, and said he
respected us for what we did. As we conversed he told us that he wished
he had been more brave and had taught his girlfriend about Christ
before she had passed away, and that he felt terrible about it now.
Because we were listening intently to what he was saying, we were then
able to testify that all people will have the opportunity to hear the
gospel, even after this life. It was obvious that he was deeply
impacted by what we said. He didn't have a phone, and he lived with his
uncle and didn't feel comfortable with us going there, so we gave him
our number and told him where the church was and the time we met, so
it's entirely up to him and Heavenly Father for him to learn more.
We'll be praying for him, and hoping he will make contact with us.
Love,
Elder Georgia
p.s.
This song was written by an elder in the mission, Elder Henrie. He was
our AP last transfer, and he was also homeschooled. He wrote it for an
investigator, and it's awesome.
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