August 16, 2010 - Craig

Hey family how is everybody doing?? This last week was good! We taught 24 lessons! It was a busy week. On Saturday our car broke down though so we are walking everywhere now ha. It is tiring! But its ok. I am so happy to be able to have legs to walk! This last week we got a new investigator and taught him athe intro and gave hima restoration pamphlet. Then we came back to his house to teach him and when he opened the dopor he was wearing an old BYu jersey! Ha a Reno Mahe one! It was hilarious. This chicano wearing a byu jersey. He probably got it at a garage sale or something. But it was a great lesson and he basically taught himself becuase he read the pamphlet like twice. It was really great. This pat week i have been taking the advice of President Willis and praying every prayer for spiritual experiences. It was a week that was full of them! We were teachiong this recent convert and we were talking about faith and i felt the spirit so strong. Elder Eyring said that when you are teaching, if you are not learning too you arent teaching right, and in this lesson i was just learning so much fromo elder soza and this girl too. We were taliking how she can gain faith in Jesus Christ by reading the scriptures and also protection from evil through the holy ghost. When i said that i just realized when we pray, read, go to churcxh and do the things that the lord asks of us the holy ghost is literally our protector. He will shield us from harm and danger. We have all recieved the gift of the holy ghost. What a special gift! We need to stay worhty to recieve strength and help from him! I am so happy to be able to have this gift and have the ability to receibve revelatiopn and inspioration on a daily basis. I have also been praying every night to recieve inspiration in my dreams and revelation too. I wont tell you the whole dream i had last night but i learned so much. I woke up and was like wow cool! ha but i had a dream that i had to use the priestyhhood for something. And i remeber i was kind of lacking faith ansd said no i cant do that, but that thought was countered by the though , yes you can you are worthy and has the authority of god to act in his name to serve others, and as i thiought that i used the priesthood and saw a miracle. We recieve power form worthiness and we are worhty becuase we are obedient. Satan will always try to put doubt in our mind and in opur thoughts. We need to press forward with faith. Faith in the gifts and blessings we have from Heavenly Father! I love you all so much! Thanks for everything! La correcta autoridad de Dios es con nosotros. Tenemos el sacerdocio de Dios. El poder para actuar en su nombre. Presidente Thomas S Monson tiene todas las llaves! Les ama muchisimo! Love Elder Bills