January 5, 2010

Alright. Here's The low-down:


I want to start off by saying I loved the opportunity I had to speak with the family on Christmas. That was a truly spiritual day...and snowy.

We have found many people in the last week that we have been preparing to teach. Its funny, we haven't been teaching a lot, but we've had a lot of contact with members, active and less-active. Maybe it was just because of the holidays.

The work is rolling forward now that a new year has started. My comp and I have been diligently preparing to teach many of these potentials and seek for more referrals from the members in the Mingo Vally Ward and the Tulsa University Single's Branch. We are actually having dinner tonight with a young couple who we helped move in about two months ago. They are both coming from Austin, Texas and there names are Andy and Lisa. Pray that all goes well with them. They are a nice couple, and we can see great things happen, but your prayers would greatly help. Also, we are still preparing Emily Gill and her sister, Tiffany for baptism on Jan. 30. They did not come to church this past Sunday, but pray they will strive to keep commitments and come to church so they can make their date. We have also been teaching a young man named Alberto. He is the boyfriend of a less-active girl in the single's branch, and we have been meeting with him since the beginning of December. We have taught him many things about the gospel, and he has come to church twice, but we feel he is still having a hard time accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet. Please keep Alberto in your prayers so that he will gain that testimony of Joseph Smith and of the Restoration, and pray we may set sa baptismal date with him. We also helped the Young Men's President from another ward west of the area we are assigned to. We helped him move a young lady into some apartments near ours that is like an adopted daughter to him. Her name is Rachelle and she was very grateful we took time to help her move. She has two kids and is expecting a third. Bro. Tolland, the Young Men's President, invited her to take the missionary lessons and to the Book of Mormon. She accepted the invitation and we will hopefully be seeing her sometime this week. We are also beggining to teach a young girl named Cloris Espinoza. She is the granddaughter of a couple in the ward, Bro. and Sis. Umland, and they have been wanting us to teach her and help her enter the waters of baptism for a couple of monhts. We finally were able to meet with Cloris last week, but she didn't come to church. Family circumstances did not allow her to attend, but hopefully we might be able to work with her father and mother, who are inacitve members. Keep Cloris in your prayers so that we might be able to have her at church and we might be able to meet with her parents. We are also helping many less-active members start coming back to church. Please keep the less-active members in your prayers as well.

Also, if any of you have any ideas or thoughts about how to help any of these individuals, please write back and we will work together to help these children of God come to closer to him.

I love you and the support you give me.

You are in my prayers.

If there is anything any of you have questions about or sruggles you might be facing, share them with me so that, with the Spirir as my companion, I might be able to help you.

I know Christ is our Savior. I know it, and I felt His love. I know I am an instrument in His hands so that I may help not only these people in Tulsa, but those of you who are close and dear to my heart.

Elder Fellows