the beginning of this week was really special (thursday) i felt a need that i was gonna give a blessing and that i should follow presidett eyrings council and fast before the blessing next thing you know the sisters in beaver creek ask us to stay after from district meet to give them a blessing so thsy will not be afraid anymore. Well after district meeting the moment comes around and it me elder vance, elder hepler, and elder michaels. The sisters always have the choice of who gives the blessing and sister Edmunds chose me. that was the most powerful blessing i have ever given, i do not remeber what was said , what i can remember is that i felt the need to ask sister Edmunds to open us with a prayer to invite the spirit and it was a really strong spirit thst entered the room as she prayed. And then as i placed my hands on her head i cant describe it anyother way but thst the spirit took over. I as overwhelmed with the spirit of the lord as i spoke his words. I hope to never forget that moment!
I found a Jarvis! Jeff jarvis a really cool guy, it was the last door we knocked on the day of his daughters 6th birthday. I thought it was awesome, however when we came for our return appointment, his wife saidhe was just being nice and that we should never come back... his family line is from Kentucky but other then that, thats the last ill see of that family for a good while...
Elder Vance bought janga and we use it in lessons more often then i thought we would. We use it to teach the great aposticy- when it falls there is usally still a foundation at the bottom that is the priesthood but the pieces separate and separate and try and build that gods church up again but none of them have all pieces, until Joseph Smith...
We also have used janga to teach the ten comandments... its really fun teaching tool.
The members out hear are really cool, we get fed every night except for p day. And they love to bare their testimonies to us and they have such strong testimonies i love to feel the spirit as they talk. And they are so willing to act on almoat any message or invitation we are inspired to give. We had baked alaska it was good
We also dis a really cool contact with mandy. We were on our bikes and we felt the need to go bacl and talk to the lady we road past. She was extreemly weirded out at first. And didnt want to talk to us but then elder vance after asking about her faith in jesus chrust said, "thats awesome, as missionaries we help people grow their faith not nby forcing our relation ship with jesus upon them but helping them strengthen their relationship! And went on to talk about how an investiagator has a relationship with christ that i dont have. And the spirit just presured on me to testify and it was a powerful contact, the follow up lesson is tonight.
We had a lesson with reed and we were foing over the baptismal questions. When we got to number four we read it and heared a big crash, went outside and someone rearended our car and destroyed it, so we are gonna be on bikes all this week maybe a few weeks.... emphasis no one was hurt except how my legs are gonna feel by the end of this week....
We also had a really good restoration lesson with mike and sarah. With bill sarahs dad there and then sarahs adorable 5 month old. They are so awesome mike and sarah both want to read thr book of mormon and are looking at april 21st to be babtized, i am so excited for them.
We also found laura in her backyard babysitting her little brothers and she is so cool. We hsd to explain a lot of fairy tails about mormons but by the end of the conversation she told us she never woule of thought thst i could ever consider calling myself a mormon.
I also went on exchanges with elder madruga from alpine i dont know if i have ever met someone with such christ like love, he is just a steller elder!
... i say also a lot....
But anyway one of the members cancel our meal. So for lunch we went to an all you can eat buffet pizza restrant and ate a lot so we wouldnt be hungry for dinner... around dinner time. The member gave us a call saying our pizza delivery is on its way, he ordered us 3 more large papa jons pizza... i ate way to much pizza this week
Last thing armetta and Keith live about 30 minuets away so we cant really go and trach them, however they came to church and we were teaching gospel principles, so with the help of about 8 members we taught the restoration in second hour. It was a powerfull lesson, very crazy through... we had barely any controll but all went well beisdes when a member went very deep into the history of joseph smith and poligamy( me and elder vance just look at each other and shrugged because we had lost controll of the lesson at that point).
Love yall
-Elder Jarvis
Btw i still cant bend my finger much but oh well, you work through the hard times and the easytimes... we still played basketball with the priests and their investigator friends on saturday. It is so much fun! I still make half court shots with a messed up hand... i cant really do layups anymore though... you win some you loose some.
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