Sunday, June 12, 2016

Letter Home - Week 45

Dear Family,

This week has been good. We finally were able to teach a less active in our area named Yuandia. She has desires to come back to church and her schedule is changing for work so she will be able to. The Lord is preparing the way for her to come back. We had a really good lesson with her about the Holy Ghost and how it warns and prompts us to repent and do good. She had a question about it. We continue to teach Janelle who is the girlfriend of the guy that moved back to Guyana. She and her son, Luke, stayed and the boyfriend, Calvin, left. I'm glad we get to continue to teach her. She is doing better and moved past what she was going through. I think the lesson and talk on the Strengthening power of the Atonement helped her. She has a testimony!! We taught a lesson with her on Saturday and she expressed that she knows the Book of Mormon is true, that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God, and that the Church has been restored. She still has a few concerns with family that we are working with her to clear up. She has been progressing very well. She reads a lot and marks good things she likes as she reads. She is torn though because she grew up Catholic and her family (Mother and Father) are still devout Catholics. Family is really important to her. She would always go with her family to church. She said she knew it is true but honestly speaking she would come to church three Sunday's out of the month and then the fourth go with her family to the Catholic. She wouldn't go to the Catholic Church because of the church but to be with her family. We are working with her on it. During that lesson we were teaching about the commandments of prayer, scripture study, and attending church when the concern came up. We talked to her about it and taught and testified of the restoration, the priesthood, the need for baptism into the Church, and weekly partaking of the sacrament. She understood and she said she would pray more about it. We are planning on giving her more talks on the subject that would help her with her concern. I was wondering if any of you had any good thoughts that might help her? I had told her in an earlier lesson to imagine what it would be like to be a member and she said that she has. Joan we had a good lesson with her this week. Right now she is going through a tough time and needing answers to her prayers. We taught about a few things that she could do to help her show her faith that would help the needed answers come. We taught about Alma and how he fasted and prayed many days that he might receive his answer. We also taught about how D&C 8 about how she needs to actively do things to seek her answer like scripture study, church attendance, and studying out her decision and even actively pursuing that decision instead of just praying to God for an answer and then sitting around waiting on Him. Answers come as we act in faith. Help comes as we ask in faith and act. Healing comes as we ask in faith and act. If we break our leg we can ask for God to heal us but he would require us to act in faith and go to a hospital to seek that healing. He can help make the process go smoothly and help with a quick recovery but not if we don't actively do something to help in the process. The same goes for spiritual healing. We can't just sit around waiting for answers and waiting on God. We must seek that ourselves. I promise that healing can and will come as we seek it. I know that the Atonement is real. It is a real power. We can find healing as we humbly ask for help in faith. I know that Heavenly Father is aware of the details in our lives. He loves us. He really does. I love you all and continue to pray and fast for you. Exercise your faith. Seek that spiritual, emotional, and mental healing. Heavenly Father will make you stronger and bless us with those things you need. You will find peace and happiness. Always remember your future is as bright as your faith. Take care! Thanks for emailing and letting me know how you all are doing. I would love to hear from each of you! I love you!
 
Love,
Elder King

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