Always Remember Him

He got me a present for my birthday :)

Buenos!

It was another solid week here in Dalton, lots of up and downs. We weren't able to meet with a lot of our top investigators this week, but the biggest success this week was with less-actives. This week we were able to visit with 12 less-active families, which was over double our original goal for the week! Another great thing from this week was the member help. This week we either had lessons in member's homes, or members coming out with us every day this week! The turnaround over the last month with the members here has been incredible. There are so many good things happening here, especially now that the members are getting more involved.

One of the highlights this week was our lesson with B. We have been teaching B for the last couple weeks, but unfortunately he'll be leaving Dalton this week. He's made some poor choices in his life, but they have really humbled him. The gospel truly is changing this guy. When we first met him, he was so distraught and down on life, but now his whole countenance has changed since we've been teaching him. He has more peace in his life, he is happier, and he has kept every commitment that we've left him. This week we finished teaching him about the plan of Salvation, and it really helped him to have a sense of hope for the future. The most incredible part was B's prayer at the end. I think it was the most beautiful, simple, humble prayer I've ever heard, as B pled with Heavenly Father for forgiveness, the spirit filled the room. It was incredible. We will have one more lesson with him this week, and that'll be it, it'll be hard to say goodbye, but I'm glad I got to see the atonement work in this man's life, and I know one day B will get baptized.

My ponderizer this week is 2nd Corinthians 5:15 which says, "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." This week as we met with our less actives, we really wanted to make sure they understood the importance of Christ's atonement and the Sacrament. When we are baptized, we make a covenant to always remember Christ and to keep his commandments. Elder Bednar taught us last March that as members of the church we have "representative agency" which means we don't really have freedom to choose any more, all of our choices should follow Christ. That's why we need the Sacrament every week. If we are going to follow Christ, we need to have that renewal of the spirit in our lives every week. There's a great video by Elder Holland called "Always remember Him" and I invite you all to go watch it! Then go share it with someone else! Hope y'all have a great week.

Love,
Elder Mitchell

Here's the link to the video

Always Remember Him