Mar 3,
2014
This
week we visited Jessica, the wife of a less-active member. She has found so
much happiness in what we have taught her so far. We focus a lot on eternal
families, which has softened her heart immensely. She has a solid doctrinal
knowledge from lessons with previous missionaries, but it is even greater to
see her smile as we teach her. This week we held FHE at their house. Most of
the kids did not come and she had a headache, but after we played
Donuts-on-Strings it was obvious that she enjoyed it! It makes me so happy to
see her so happy!
We had
dinner with a less-active member named Jonathan. His mother, Deb, has been
trying to help him come back to church for a while. We showed them the Prodigal
Son video from the Bible Videos series on mormonchannel.org. Jonathan took the
boldness well. He has a greater desire to come to church, and should be there
next week (we works some Sundays). He has to stop smoking and drinking, but we
gave him a blessing for that. He will make it. I have faith in him.
I set
some steep goals for this week: I have to read ten pages of the scriptures per
day or pay Elder Thomas a nickel per page I missed, and I have to write one
full page in my journal every day or pay Elder Thomas a quarter. I love Elder
Thomas so much. This companionship just makes me so happy!
See
this? This is what happiness looks like.
Love,
Elder Jon Harrison Richins
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