Well for my usual letter things this week have been kinda slow. I had to go to freaking immigration twice all day getting up at 5 am. Oh well. Our investigator Fernando is making tons of progress, my comp doesn't think so but I see it. He is about 60 years old and last week we gave him a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read and yesterday when we went to check up on him he told us he read the chapter and told us how its so cool and how the Book of Mormon and the Bible like complete each other. I was psyched and told him thats exactly right. I wanted to give him some scriptures to read about the birth of Christ in the BOOK of MORMON since it is Christmas but my comp wanted him to start with 1 Nephi. I was kinda mad because he is in charge since he is the senior comp but he really doesn't know how to connect with people or how to decipher the needs of the investigators. For example we were teaching this lady who had her husband pass away a few years ago and I was so ready to teach the plan of salvation but instead he decided to teach the Restoration. The Restoration is wicked important and but the main message that our church has in my opinion is FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER.
In my opionion that is why we make the covenants that we make. I love him but oh well at least he is being obedient now which is good so I have no complaints about that. Anyway, right now I would like to share something about President Zant.
You know I got my mission call then I got it delayed i was so depressed I felt like nobody loved me not even my friends or my family. I felt so alone in the world as if the Lord had completely abandoned me. I remember hearing about President Zant a few weeks earlier. I never really knew him that well but I was still a little sad. I remember getting home from work late one Friday night I just got in bed and went to sleep and I woke up to my cell phone ringing. I answered and I said who is this. He said President Zant. I was like ok whats up. Cuz it was like 2 am haha. Well he said that he wanted to talk to me at 8 am the next morning i had work off so i agreed. I got up that morning and got in my car thinking oh this is going to be some worthiness lecture or something. I went inside his house and he shook my hand he started to talk to me but my mind drifted and started looking at the pictures above him on the wall. It was pictures of his family. He noticed this and says oh your looking at my family. I said oh sorry . Well he said oh its ok and started talking about his sons and sons in law. Then he started to talk about his daughter who had died a few years ealier he said that he knows that families can be together then I just broke in tears he started to talk to me. I said I just feel so alone in the world right now. God doesn't love me,my family doesn't, no one even cares, no one loves me. He read to me D&C sect 122 and said Canyon your going through a really hard time right know and I just thought the man who has cancer, the man who has had his daughter taken from him is feeling sympathy for me. I remember that as he told me things would be ok he walked me out the door and gave me this hug and said I LOVE YOU CANYON and I felt like the savior was hugging me. I have shaken hands with apostles as if they are a ordinary person but with him I trembled. He is the reason that I am here today. I know without a doubt in my mind that he is with God right now. The last words that he remember him saying were I LOVE YOU CANYON . Those words echo in my mind everyday as if he just said them.
Love Elder Atwood
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