A day in the life of an Elder

Monday, June 2, 2008

You're tizight!

Hey Fam,
What's crackin'? The work is same as usual. We're trying to find and progress our investigators. The highlight of my week happened yesterday. There was this little baby girl (after church) that started crying hysterically. We were getting our dinners for the week when her father came and asked us to help him give her a blessing. He said that it is probably her arm because she was holding it carefully. When i placed a drop of oil on her head and started the prayer for the annointing she immediately stopped crying and gave into the spirit that entered the room. She knew what we were doing for her and she's like a year old. It made me think of how blessed we are to have the priesthood authority here. We can command the elements to change on word of mouth according to God's will. What a blessing that is. I was listening to a talk on my ipod last night by Elder Cowley. (member of the 12 back in 1953) He was talking about miracles. He talked about some blessings that he had given for the admistration of the sick. The priesthood authority given us defies all the laws of man. A specific experience that he gave was when a family had a 5 year old boy that was born blind deaf and dumb and asked elder cowley to give him a blessing and he fasted for a while and then gave the blessing to the child and was prompted to heal him of everything. A few months later the boy had received sight and sound and speach. How miraculous is this gift given us. And to trust 12 year olds with that gift is beyond my comprehension of trust. Anywho I received the package with shoes and stuff. Thank you so much. I pray nightly in gratitude towards how blessed i am to have a family like you. you're tizight. Colton Baines got his call to Puerto rico. he's excited out of his mind! And i'm excited for him. Here are a couple pics of the joys of the mission field. I love you all and hope that you guys don't grow up to fast for me. Alexis is a mom. Ky's gonna be a deacon. You two are grandparents. What happened? haha Laters

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