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Tifton Transfer 15 Week 3
Date
April 4, 2022
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Tifton Transfer 15 Week 3
What is up all of my beautiful people?? Another week has absolutely flown by, God has been orchestrating some miracles, life's been good, real good. I'm just so hyped to be talking to some of my favorite people again, about the greatest work on earth. Let's dive in?
So to start off, teaching this week was up and down. We've been trying to get some bomb lessons with some of our friends, but it's been a little difficult. There have been a few barriers we've been working around, health, funerals, work, lame excuses, you name it. So it was hard getting in contact with people. On top of that, we did get a few of our people deciding that they don't want to meet with us. So overall, teaching was a little slower this week. BUT. God, as He does, still found ways to work His miracles. We just keep churning through new people, and this week we found a few more people who seem promising. One, named Kimberly, met with missionaries before, and simply fell through the cracks. But she's super nice, pretty much mentally there, her sister is a member, and she's as humble as they come. Checks all the boxes. She wants to progress towards baptism, now it's just getting her there.
So overall teaching was solid. Louise is chilling, we had a few people that we were about to drop who finally clicked and are working on reading the entire Book of Mormon and praying about it. So good things are continuing to happen. Please pray for James and Tommy, they're both facing some major family opposition which makes it hard for them to progress and see the joy of the gospel. They're both so close to grasping it, they just need an extra boost.
Not a whole lot too crazy to report on though. Of COURSE though, wasn't General Conference just SO sick!? Such a revelatory experience. I don't know about y'all, but something I try to do for Conference is write down all my questions, and see if the Lord can answer them. This time around, I decided that I wanted to make it tough on God, so I wrote down like 15 very specific questions, and sat down ready to receive some major revelation. And out of the first session alone, EVERY single one of those questions were answered. God is good y'all. He knows us personally, and that's how He works. He's provided a personal Savior, a personal Gospel, personal leaders to guide us, and he answers our questions and yearnings of our hearts in VERY personal ways. This General Conference was SUCH a testament to me that these leaders of the church, His Prophet and Apostles, are NOT just ordinary men. They're called and set apart with priesthood authority, they have God's stamp of approval. And they're His mouthpieces. So if you have a personal problem, a personal question, a personal situation, a personal disability, turn to the Personal God. Watch conference, listen go Him speak to you, I can promise He will!
General Conference weekend was also pretty sweet for us too. We watched the Saturday Morning session with Louise and she was absolutely in LOVE, then the Saturday Afternoon session with the Largers, an awesome family in the Tifton ward. Then the Sunday morning session with Shakevia, her boyfriend and his cousin, she absolutely loved it and is committed to coming back to church because of it, and then Sunday afternoon was split between the Garey's, a recent convert family for the first hour, then the bishop and family for the second hour. So we were absolutely booked, just how it should be. Conference is awesome y'all.
Then P-Day today was SO hype. We went out to the gazebo in the middle of the pond place with the district, and did a little bit of fishing, lunching, and playing some games. Overall good times. Caught a massive carp, a few smaller suckers, a turtle, the usual. So it was a good pday.
But yeah, things are good. Just trucking along. The church is just as true as it was last week, General Conference is on the same level as Christmas, and Southern Georgia is still absolutely stunning. Have a good week y'all, remember that Jesus loves y'all and so do I!!
Elder Richardson
Scripture of the Week: Quote from Elder Bruce R. McConkie--
"I testify that He is the Son of the Living God and was crucified for the sins of the world. He is our Lord, our God, and our King. This I know of myself independent of any other person.
I am one of His witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in His hands and in His feet and shall wet His feet with my tears.
But I shall not know any better then than I know now that He is God’s Almighty Son, that He is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through His atoning blood and in no other way."
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So to start off, teaching this week was up and down. We've been trying to get some bomb lessons with some of our friends, but it's been a little difficult. There have been a few barriers we've been working around, health, funerals, work, lame excuses, you name it. So it was hard getting in contact with people. On top of that, we did get a few of our people deciding that they don't want to meet with us. So overall, teaching was a little slower this week. BUT. God, as He does, still found ways to work His miracles. We just keep churning through new people, and this week we found a few more people who seem promising. One, named Kimberly, met with missionaries before, and simply fell through the cracks. But she's super nice, pretty much mentally there, her sister is a member, and she's as humble as they come. Checks all the boxes. She wants to progress towards baptism, now it's just getting her there.
So overall teaching was solid. Louise is chilling, we had a few people that we were about to drop who finally clicked and are working on reading the entire Book of Mormon and praying about it. So good things are continuing to happen. Please pray for James and Tommy, they're both facing some major family opposition which makes it hard for them to progress and see the joy of the gospel. They're both so close to grasping it, they just need an extra boost.
Not a whole lot too crazy to report on though. Of COURSE though, wasn't General Conference just SO sick!? Such a revelatory experience. I don't know about y'all, but something I try to do for Conference is write down all my questions, and see if the Lord can answer them. This time around, I decided that I wanted to make it tough on God, so I wrote down like 15 very specific questions, and sat down ready to receive some major revelation. And out of the first session alone, EVERY single one of those questions were answered. God is good y'all. He knows us personally, and that's how He works. He's provided a personal Savior, a personal Gospel, personal leaders to guide us, and he answers our questions and yearnings of our hearts in VERY personal ways. This General Conference was SUCH a testament to me that these leaders of the church, His Prophet and Apostles, are NOT just ordinary men. They're called and set apart with priesthood authority, they have God's stamp of approval. And they're His mouthpieces. So if you have a personal problem, a personal question, a personal situation, a personal disability, turn to the Personal God. Watch conference, listen go Him speak to you, I can promise He will!
General Conference weekend was also pretty sweet for us too. We watched the Saturday Morning session with Louise and she was absolutely in LOVE, then the Saturday Afternoon session with the Largers, an awesome family in the Tifton ward. Then the Sunday morning session with Shakevia, her boyfriend and his cousin, she absolutely loved it and is committed to coming back to church because of it, and then Sunday afternoon was split between the Garey's, a recent convert family for the first hour, then the bishop and family for the second hour. So we were absolutely booked, just how it should be. Conference is awesome y'all.
Then P-Day today was SO hype. We went out to the gazebo in the middle of the pond place with the district, and did a little bit of fishing, lunching, and playing some games. Overall good times. Caught a massive carp, a few smaller suckers, a turtle, the usual. So it was a good pday.
But yeah, things are good. Just trucking along. The church is just as true as it was last week, General Conference is on the same level as Christmas, and Southern Georgia is still absolutely stunning. Have a good week y'all, remember that Jesus loves y'all and so do I!!
Elder Richardson
Scripture of the Week: Quote from Elder Bruce R. McConkie--
"I testify that He is the Son of the Living God and was crucified for the sins of the world. He is our Lord, our God, and our King. This I know of myself independent of any other person.
I am one of His witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in His hands and in His feet and shall wet His feet with my tears.
But I shall not know any better then than I know now that He is God’s Almighty Son, that He is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through His atoning blood and in no other way."
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