Also, something else fun that I forgot to mention is Elder Lofgren
has a habit of sleep talking/walking. A week ago or so he accused me of
stealing a fish in his sleep. And just the other day he said some
gibberish, mentioned something about leaving, and
when we woke up he had moved my wallet across our nightstand. He just
about made off with my stuff in the middle of the night, HAHA!! But we
are getting along well.
Everywhere around Kamiah is on fire so the air is pretty smoky
which isn't super fantastic BUT it does make for some pretty sweet
sunsets. I'll see if I can get a picture sent sometime.
The work at times is slow. Just because of the nature of the area
tracting is not the most effective way of working. Most of the people in
town have already met with the missionaries in the past and it's
impossible to just walk around and meet people
who live up in the hills. But we have a list of less active and
potentials we will visit in the coming weeks. Our only investigators we
had who seemed super interested last week have suddenly fallen off the
face of the planet. Nobody knows where they are.
Our contact (who is quite outspoken and straight forward, which may be
the reason they got scared off) has been up to their trailer and they
weren't there. We've called them and no answer. We left them a voicemail
and dropped it so we'll see what happens there.
BUT we have found out that one of our friends at church, a kid named
Kyle who's maybe a year or two older than us, might have not been
baptized. He was born in the church but it really wasn't part of their
life but Kyle has recently been coming back to church
lately. We are not positive but he may have fallen away before he was
baptized so that is something we'll talk to him about and get some more
information, see if we can't make something happen. He's a real good
kid, we sat and talked about hunting for a long
long time at dinner this week, haha!
Had an interesting experience with an inactive this week. This man
was almost excommunicated but it was never submitted because it probably
wouldn't have gone through. But because of those experiences he was
offended and said the bishop at the time told
him to essentially remove his records. That can be taken how you may.
But he told us he prayed and received the answer that it is okay that he
doesn't go to church for a while because of how it is being run. He
also told us he has seen visions and heard the
voice of God and seen and been healed by the Holy Ghost and has been
taught all these things and what not that I won't get into. But it
really struck me for some reason. Because this man was a really nice
man and he emphasized that he believes in the gospel
and seemed very genuine in all these things. He wasn't like those (to
put it bluntly) crazy people who you just kind of smile and nod when
they tell you things. Our meeting with him really sent me home thinking.
He told me to not just believe what he was saying.
"Don't trust me, pray about what I said" he told me. So I did and then
just did some pondering. Now I'm not the greatest at feeling like I get
answers from the spirit all the time, but here's my thinking. After I
prayed and was pondering I thought about the
Holy Ghost and discerning truth from error. And I thought about how we
can be told what is truth and what is error through the Holy Ghost. And
one of the Holy Ghost's titles is the comforter. And I got thinking
about when that man was talking to us and I realized
that just about everything he was telling me just gave me a very
unsettled feeling. And it was definitely not a feeling of comfort. And
when I thought about what I have always been taught and what I believe,
even though what he said made me question for a
minute, I still felt like what I believed and was taught was real
truth.
So that's my challenge. In this crazy world you will definitely
hear things that will make you question. So make sure you know where
real truth is and how to find it. Real truth comes to those who are
consistently doing the little things. Going to church
and partaking of the sacrament. pondering the scriptures. Serving
others. And might I add trusting and sustaining church leaders. Those
that do this and honestly seek truth God has promised that he will
answer.
Well, more to share from Kamiah next week.
Love to all.
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