As a Child

Well I’m in week 6 of this transfer and it doesn’t feel like I have been in Pembroke that long….. but here we are, and I have been able to feel like this area has really grown already. I’m finally getting everyone’s first name down, it has taken time to get use to calling people by their first name, instead of their last name. I really love these people and it’s so great to be with them!

            This week has been a really good week. We had a few powerful lessons this week one was with a man Earnest and his son Tray. We went to the appointment thinking that we were going to talk about the plan of salvation but as we started talking we felt the need to talk more about the Book of Mormon and its role in our conversion. The Spirit was really strong as we talked about how we must feel that it is true and strive to know if it’s true or not by reading it, and then taking it to God in prayer to ask if it is true. After the lesson we first invited Ernest to be baptized on the 14^th of next month and he was all for it! So then we invited his 14 year old son Tray and he told us that he will pray about it, but yes he would and then Ernest was like “Oh well I better pray about it too”

            Then we had a lesson with Elizabeth the 9 year old and for the lesson I made a puzzle to teach her of the Doctrine of Christ (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end) Then she surprised us by teaching it back to us in only about 5 minutes when we had taken about 30 mins! It was great to hear how simple the gospel really is, and think of if we were all like a child in the way of learning and living the gospel that the world would be a lot better place. We then invited her to be baptized on the 7^th of next month and she really wants to. Yesterday she was able to go to primary for the first time and I’m excited because we have a lesson with her tonight and we are going to ask her what she thought of church.

            So in a nut shell the work is moving along here, and life is good. I’m excited about the Christmas season that is upon us (the weather has been really nice this week) and people are getting nicer haha! We even have had two people invite us over for Christmas this year! Yay for CHRISTmas (not CHIStmas haha) but I hope you all have a great season and a wonderful week!

LOVE ELDER MAUGHAN!!