What a week this has been, what a rare mood I’m in, why it’s almost most like being a missionary!!!!!!!!!Wow this week has been crazy! It has absolutely flown by which only means one thing….. We worked hard! We talked to so many people, and got several new investigators. We got 90/9 in QGC’s this past week, and that is a huge milestone for us. Now that wasn’t all me, cause I was in Stockport for 2 days with one of the Zone Leaders (exchanges), but still I helped out a lot! Now I am going to warn you now that I have a lot of stuff to tell you so I am probably going to go fast cause I have 30 min to do so, but I hope that you will be able to follow it all!!!
I went on a 2 day exchange with the Zone Leaders in Stockport, and it was absolutely amazing. I went with Elder Aughney who is an absolute spitting image of Brian. He kinda looks like him, but he sounds a lot like him, and his personality is exactly like him. That was the best exchange that I have ever been on! We had some much fun, and did a lot of really good work. We went and we taught some members that live in Stockport. They are called the Jones family and the husband is from California. They asked me where I was from and I said Colorado. They looked at me and asked what part…. I said Northern (my usual response), and they asked what town…… I said Loveland, and they said YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!! Sis. Jones is best friends with Caroline (Habinc) Brown. Talk about a small world!!!! We got a good laugh about that one, they got a picture and everything, so you might be seeing that picture from the Habincs soon!!!!!
Yes we have been getting some snow as of late, but according to Colorado and Utah standards it is nothing. People have been freaking out, and parts of the county have shut down because of it, and we are having a blast. It basically snowed all day Monday, and it was windy and DANG cold, but it was nothing that us Mountain boys can’t handle. We just bundled up (thank heavens for under armor), and went out and worked! It was fun. People in this country do not know what snow is I have decided, and that is a problem. That is a big reason why I could never live here….. NO SNOW!!!!!!!
We had zone conference yesterday, and boy oh boy was it a good one. Every once and while President decides to teach us some things that we really shouldn’t talk to our investigators about, but it is just a huge testimony builder for those of us that are already converted. At my 3rd conference he talked a lot about the signs of the second coming, and that was really really cool, but yesterday he did something even cooler. He talked about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nah Ammadi Codices! Oh my goodness there is so much cool stuff in there. I won’t go into great detail about what he talked about but lets just say that in the 26,000 pages of manuscript it never once talks about the trinity, baptizing infants by sprinkling, and other modern day practices, but it does talk about MANY of the things that were reveled to Joseph Smith! Temples (IN DETAIL), restoration, other records, a prophet name Aseph (when translated into English = Joseph), Potential to become like god, pre earth life, and the list goes on!!!!!!! It blew my mind! Joseph was and is a true prophet. I knew that when the Fort Collins Institute did that program a long long time ago (the one that Brian was in), but I have an even stronger testimony of that now! The evidence is huge!!!!! My prayer and answer was enough, but this was great to learn!!! You should go and check it out and see what you can find. They are really incredible, and it is no wonder why the church is so interested in them. President said that the church recognizes them as doctrine, the funny thing is that we have had it for about 200 years ha ha ha!!!!!!! We also did questions of the soul from page 107 of Preach my Gospel. I had to answer “why does god allow evil and suffering to occur” that is the question that I get the most. Go and look at all of those questions and see what you think. That is my challenge to you!!!!
I think that that is was funny that you taught about Alma 5 in RS mom cause I just read that this morning. I LOVE THAT CHAPTER!!! Alma is a beast, and he really knows how to teach. There is a section in PMG about asking questions, and Alma really has that skill down! He asks so many questions that make the people think for themselves and teach themselves! That is what we try to do. We can talk at someone all day long, but until they teach and understand for themselves, then nothing is going to work. When you ask questions you make people think and help them to feel the spirit! That is what Alma does here, and it really works. It made me think about what I am doing, and what I need to change. I also really liked how he said that the Spirit talked to him with a mighty voice. That made me think a bit, but I figured that prophets are so in tune with spirit that it does sound loud and mighty to them. Wouldn’t that be great to have that!!!!!
Well that is about all that time that I have for today. Know that I love you and that I think about you all the time. I am still waiting for some letters, I think that everyone has forgotten about me (friends that is).
Love,
Elder Neal
The Stretford crew… us, the Hafen’s (CES/YSA Missionary Couple. Thy are seriously like our mom and dad, they take such good care of us, I love them so much.), the sisters (Goddard and Smith), and the Assistants (Frogley, Christensen).
Us and the Zone Leaders (E. Aughney is next to me)
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