Ok what is up with Timothie having foot surgery? Im the only one that is allowed to get hurt! That’s my role as the oldest Brother… Well I will be praying for her.
But the week was good another one that just drained me physically and spiritually. We were asked to sit on the stand at church so everyone could see us and one of the speakers is a professor at North Carolina University and I was trying so hard to stay awake but i will have to say I fell asleep twice but I did a good cover by holding my scriptures and looking like I was reading something (with my eyes closed) and Elder Butts didn’t even see... so I'm just that good but I felt really bad because it was really good and I don’t like missing stuff in church…. That’s what happens when you’re working 24 hours a day and your head hits the pillow and then all of the sudden the alarm is going off… I LOVE IT!!! I really do it feels so good!
So I have a story about how revelation comes through the book of Mormon. Just this past Wednesday when we went to a referral's home, it just started good as soon as we pulled up to the house. He was outside and then as we walked up he was like “you want to come in?”. His name is Ryan and he is about 19-20 and has been around Latter Day Saints most of his life and just had a few questions. He wanted to know what we believed and we started talking about how Heavenly Father is truly our father and loves us and then about prophets and how God has all ways worked through a prophet. We talked about Jesus Christ and what he did for us and then the great apostasy and the restoration. The spirit was so strong through the entire lesson and it wasn’t even Elder Butts or I teaching we were just saying words and the spirit was teaching. After we talked about Joseph Smith we asked if he had any questions and he said something but it didn’t make sense and he started thinking about if he had a question and what it was, so we sat there in complete silence for about a minute and a half as he was thinking (and I was praying… a lot) but then he asked why was it Joseph and not someone different? Then we asked him a question. If he wanted to know if it was true and he said that he really did so we started talking about the Book of Mormon and how if we read and pray about it we will find that it is true and that means that Jesus is the Christ , Joseph was his prophet, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Christ's church once again on the earth. (how great is that?) and then everything after that came to the fact that he needed to read and pray.
It was truly amazing how simple our message is and someone that truly wants to know only has to read and pray… I just love it!
Well there is my story for the week I really enjoyed it. Oh we also gave blood (second time on my mission) and I just love doing it, one thing is that it's service I can give while laying down and another you get free stuff after haha. Each time I give I feel perfectly fine after J
Oh ya! The other day I saw my first lighting bug! It was really cool! And for being in NC and this the first time ever seeing one elder butts was laughing about how fascinated I was about it so he caught it and as soon as he showed me he let it go…… It reminded me of the first and only fish I was able to catch: I'm still into it and amazed and then someone else goes and throws it away… hahaha So that’s my week I hope you all doing good and and a lot of good things happen as well!!
LOVE ELDER MAUGHAN
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