This week has been another noteworthy week, but sadly I don't have time to go through all the cool things that have been happening around here! First off though, a few scriptures I found interesting in my studies this week:
- Alma 12:14
- Psalms 23:7
- D&C 121:35
- Enos 1:4,9
- Alma 41:4-6
- 2 Nephi 4:16
- Acts 5:38-39
- Joshua 24:15
- Matthew 6:24
Also, related to my studies, I've recently started focusing my studies more on being question-based, and so if y'all have any questions - simple, deep, profound, or whatever it is, I'd like to have em since it's always more fun to study to try and help someone else than just to fulfill my own curiousity. So, send your questions my way and if I start getting really adventurous I might start mentioning who the questions are from in my email. This week I focused a lot on what makes standards and goals work to help motivate us to act and achieve great things, it was pretty neat.
Anyway, there were some awesome things that we got to participate in this week, the most important of which was Connie Harper's baptism! I've attached a couple pictures from it, but it was just a super spiritual service and it was awesome to be able to be apart of that! She's a super awesome lady, and her son who got baptized in september of 2012 was able to come up to baptize and confirm her! It was a pretty neat experience, especially since it was the first time he had baptized someone, and it got to be his mother which was super special. Possibly the most entertaining thing of the week though happened after the baptism when the sister missionaries realized that they had locked their car keys in the trunk... it was kind of funny to see them freak out, and then it was super awesome to be able to happen to have an investigator who used to do that as part of his job (working at an impound lot), and so he was able to come and help them out. It was pretty dang exciting - especially since it was like 9pm.
The cool part about that story above though is that we got to visit with his family yesterday because of it, and it was a super fun visit. We talked about the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ and then got to play pictionary with them, which was just a bundle of fun. Also this week, we got to visit with a couple people who recently got new phones and introduce them to the Gospel Library app... it's a pretty dang awesome app, along with the app that just has the Book of Mormon on it - they're both super useful since lots of people always have their phone on them but never want to carry a book around. So, it's been fun to have people add that on their phones - hopefully they remember to use it occasionally ;)
Another cool thing this last week is that we've been able to go out to Healdton, a small town in our area, a couple times and have met some awesome families out there. For one thing, we got to visit with Scott, a less active member who hasn't been to church since 2001, and his girlfriend (who isn't a member) for a bit. He happens to be the temporary police chief out there, which was pretty sweet, and he also knows quite a bit about the doctrine of the church still, which was neat to hear. It was a pretty awesome experience to have, plus his girlfriend Amy was super interested and curious as well.
Anyway, I've gotta get going, but I hope y'all have a fantastic week! Love y'all!
'Til Next Time,
Elder Jordan Nielson
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