January 25, 2010

Hey peeps!


This is my new address:

Elder Brad Fellows
7311 South 99th East Ave.
Apt. 1305
Tulsa, OK 74133

Hopefully, I can get some hand-written letters soon. I don't think I've gotten a piece of mail for the past 10 or 11 days (but i'm not counting). The work has been super crazy busy. As I said in my last email, we have many investigators looking for renewed faith in Jesus Christ, but those few names only scratch the surface. That doesn't include a few new investigators we have found, a few par-member fmailies, inactives members helping to reactivate them, and less active members and helping them with certain "issues". But it's been great! We don't even have time to tract because we always have someone to go and visit. That's the best kind of busy a missionary could wish for. I know, I can't get to comfortable with it. It might not be like this down the road on my mission, but it sure is something that is reality in any part of the mission. I think about L. Tom Perry's talk, "Bring Souls to Me", and in there, it speaks about how members are the full-time finders, and missionaries are the full-time teachers. That is what it feels like in Mingo Valley.. Elder Moosman and I are loving every second of it. I go back to the Book of Mormon when Ammon and his brethren were preaching among the Lamanites. Something just impressed upon me as I am writing this email and I want to share it with from those chapters. At the beginning of chapter 17, Ammon and his brethren fasted and prayed many days unot the Lord, and in verse 10, the Lord "did visit them with his Spirit". And then, the Lord says unto them, inverse 11, "Go forth among the Lamamites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls." I love how the Lord says to them to be patient in their afflictions, much like how He says it to us in these days. And if we are patient, we may become instruments in His hands so that we might save many souls unto salvation. And then, in verse 12, Ammonand his brethren respond to what the Lord says, "And it came to pass that the hearts of the Sons of Mosiah, and also those whio were with them, took courage to go forth." We must take courage to go forth. That is what we do as children of God. We knoe our potential. We must take hold of that potential, take courage, and rise above the afflictions and sufferings of the world. We must be as Nephi of old and "go and do". We must! I know that we will be blessed tremendously if we do. I have witnessed for myself the spriritual treasures our God gives us. I know it and I cannot deny it. I know this because I know He loves us. I love all of you and I am thankful for the blessing all of you have been to me. All of you have given me courage, given me hope. I love you. I love you. I love you.

Elder Fellows