Hey
there family!!!
This
week has been another GREAT week in the Oregon City 3rd Ward.
Missionaries
have many wonderful experiences happen to them, but his week just seemed to be
an all around great week. This week Elder Quinton and I were able to reach a
few of our goals and beat some as well.
Our
opportunities to teach are growing. I know that comes from finding as much as
we can when we have time. Elder Quinton and I have found success from our area
book and prayerfully looking at who we should visit. We were able to pick up a
new investigator from that. We also strive to "teach when we find and find
when we teach". When we go to some lessons nearby, we will walk to those
lessons because we know there will be some people on the streets.
A
few weeks ago we were street contacting and we ran into this man named Ryan. We
shared our message and he was interested. Even more so he said he thinks he was
a member and he wanted to come back to church, but he wasn't quite sure if he
was a member or not because he thinks his parents left the church. We gave him
the missionaries phone number for the area he lived in and I'm not sure if he
was a member or not, but now the missionaries are teaching him! I have a
personal testimony that street contacting and tracting is worth our time, even
more than just that story.
We
also have found a few less active members who were not on record that we are
beginning to teach due to tracting, even "country tracting". Elder
Quinton and I decided we would tract out in Beaver Creek. It is a lot more open
and has farms, but we were able to find a new family to teach. The husband is a
L.A. member but is eager to meet with us. The wife and kids are not members and
we don't know too much about them, but we are excited to work with the whole
family.
This
week Elder Quinton, Debbie (our investigator), Bro. Westover (member) , and
myself fasted for Debbie knowing what to do with her job situation. I know the
adversary wanted us not have this fast. In just one day Elder Quinton and I
were given 24 oatmeal raisin cookies, 20 dollars for lunch, and 48 eggs and 2
loaves of bread! We never get offered that much food in one day, especially
when fasting!
The
day previous we had a lesson with Debbie and she was talking about how she
didn't know what to do with her job situation. Interestingly enough Bro.
Westover asked us if we all would like to fast for Debbie (Debbie being
included in this fast) and then meet the next day and conclude it. At the first
lesson we of course talked about what a fast is and then we talked about how
fasting and prayer go right along with each other. Elder Quinton and I actually
prepared to talk about prayer that day. The Lord works in mysterious (but
amazing) ways. At the last lesson, we talked about Alma 17, and how fasting and
prayer (among others things) was how the Lord blessed them and gave them
courage to face whatever trials they went through. It was a great fast. We all
grew spiritually from it and we know God will bless Debbie is her job
situation. He already is beginning to.
Thanks
for all that you guys do for me!
Love,
Elder
Trevor A. Morgan
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