HeyFamily Oct 24 2011!
thisweek was great! there is allot of good things happening! so like you know i amback serving in denham springs! it is really fun to be back and see old friendsthat i once had. it is fun because i am in a ward and most of the ward reallylikes us, almost every day this week a member has either given us food, or hasfed us! :) so i thought that was really nice! I am always nervous to eat at amembers or a non members house, because you never know what you are going toeat or how it was prepared.... but it has been a great week! we are teaching aBrother named Greg! he used to live in Utah and loved the Mormons! he is tryingto get back on his feet, and reading the scriptures and praying he said hasreally helped him! his roommate is a really good friend named Kenny! Kenny imet a year again he lived with his girl friend and them and there kids wereattending church and loved it! they were planning to be baptised, just neededto get married first. well after i left a few months later Andie his girlfriend left him and he got really depressed and he stoped reading and coming tochurch.... it is cool because i now that i am transferred BACK i alreadyknow him and i was able to teach very boldly! we had a great lesson! he pickedback up smoking and drinking and is breaking the Law of chastity... but i askedwhat his real concerns were and it was just really spiritual! i think mostpeople focus on what people DO instead of focusing on how we are being! if thatmakes sense. it was fun because i didn't even really talk about what he wasdoing (smoking, drinking,etc) instead i focused and who he was (father, son,brother). more or less we tried to build his Faith and tried to help himRepent, because if he feels the faith growing then he will have a desire torepent! if he has a desire to repent then he will have a desire to stopsmoking! but if we just tell him to stop breaking commandments they he never wouldhave or will. so i am hoping this new way will work! i think it will! it makesway more sense! lately i have really focused on Faith, Repentance, Baptism,Receiving the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end! i believe it is like a snowball effect! so it is really we need to strive to have faith, and teach othersto have faith! it has been really fun to have spent time focusing on differentwas to learn and different ways to teach! for instance the last missionary herebaptised 7 people in 7 months! the way he did it was just by being therefriend, and instead of teaching them, they just hung out.... and why they werehanging out he would bring up the gospel. it is cool because he baptised somany people... but once he left, the people no have no real testimony, so theynow have not been coming to church. isn't that interesting? this last week ihave been thinking alot about that really! it has really made me focus on ourpurpose (the fourth article of faith), and finding people that has beenprepared to be taught by the Lord! it is fun to do different things and learnfrom them! I just finished the book of Mormon for the THIRD time :) i marked ingreen everything that has to do with faith, repentance, baptism, receiving theholy ghost, and enduring to the end! now i am restarting and i am going to markall the Christlike attributes in purple! i suppose if we become more Christlike ourselves then it will much easier to help others be Christlike! Soanother great experience i had was... a year ago while i was serving here, wewere visiting a Recent convert and was trying to get her to go to the youngsingle adults ward! well the last Sunday i missed her at church and so i askedaround and no one seemed to have see her for a couple of months.. at first iwas really sad:( because she was a great friend. out of any person i have met ithink she is almost my favorite! she is almost def, and tried to go to regularcollage and she is just really go getter and self motivated, even though sheis partly def! it is cool because so many people would use that as anexcuse to take money from the government, or to just give up... but she usesthat to work even harder or to push herself more! anyways so she wasn't atchurch so we went by to visit her! as we drove up to her house shecame out to greet us and we talked, she knew who i was i new her, so wegot right to talking about the gospel! she still has a strong testimonyand has been attending the singles ward for the last while! it brought alot ofjoy to my hart to know that! and it is great to see an old friend with such astrong testimony! at first i was very sorrowful, but when i understoodmore of Gods plan it seemed like i was filled with joy! i betthat that sane things happens to use more then we think. so why dowe get sorrowful? why not just get joy and stay with that joy! :) anotherthing this week was really cool! i think i told you about brother Durand! itaught him last year and he was a hard head and was not really progressing butonly coming to church... we invited him to read out of the Scriptures and itchanged him completely! it was was awesome! he then committed to baptism! andwas off! then we both got transferred out a year ago, and he was just kindaforgotten about because of his smoking problem. well right before i gottransferred back he got sick and had to go to the hospital.. well they told himif he didn't stop smoking he would die!!!!! and well when i got here he wassmoke free for 2 weeks! now it has been 3 weeks! :) isn't that great! we sawhim a few days ago with the bishop and he is still progressing and were prayingthat he will get baptised soon! he wants to when his body heals! he really justneeds to read the Scriptures everyday! so it has been really fun to beback in the area! O ya last Monday on Preparation day i was playing basketball! and well i tried to do a sweet trick... and as i jumped i slippedand well the inner part of my elbow got fractured.. when i landed on my armi herd it pop, so then i went home like half hour later and laid on my bedthinking of what to do.... because i could fill that it weak, so icalled sister wall (after a 2 hours of laying there) and had to go to thedoctor... lame i know. it was really swollen. now it is only kinda swollen andreally bruised. really color full :) ya so that was really lame! thedoctor gave me a cast that i could take on and off, it is really fancy, andsome medicine. we'll see if i can do that trick again later today! :) itonly reminded me of all the times i fell skateboarding! (don't tell sisterWall, but that night everyone was playing soccer for family night, and after 30sec. i got bored of watching... and well my team won)! overall this weekwas great! i got a letter from Micky and it was awesome! well love y'all i hopethat y'all have a great week! love y'all
Love,
ElderJoshua Kiser!
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