Hello again,
Man I am starting to slack on
sending out emails every week. We have just been very busy lately helping
the other missionaries get around. Since I last emailed, we have found 5
new people that are interested in the message that we have for them. I
realize that it has been a long time and there is a lot of stuff that I haven't
talked about. I am going to try to help you catch up so forgive me if I
write about something that I have already written about.
To start off with, the Asian couple
that we were teaching left and moved to Washington D.C., which is just a couple
of hours out of our mission boundaries.
We have been teaching J... more
though. I would like to take a couple of lines and thank the member that
we brought with us to teach J.... We were trying to find someone that
would get along good with him to bring to the lessons and I felt impressed that
we should bring Brother A.
When I told my companion, who is still Elder Graff, at first he
hesitated at the thought, but in time it grew on him. As for how the
lesson went, it was a total success. Brother A is not a very
deep thinking man but he has a testimony of the Gospel and as he talked about
what he knew to be true the spirit filled the room. It was funny, because
he then started to talk about some things that would be rather strange to a
person that knew as little about the church as J... does, but it did not matter
because the spirit was there so strongly that there was nothing that
Brother A... could say that could have ruined the atmosphere.
We asked him then if he would be baptized if he came to know the things were
true and he replied, "while Brother A... was talking I felt
something warm inside me, and I believe the things he said." Even a
semi-seasoned missionary like myself had a hard time keeping his cool until
after the lesson.
From this experience I learned how
important it is for the members to go out with the missionaries. While I
am on the topic of member missionary work, we have had something very strange
happen to us that I never thought we would run into.
So you are probably
thinking that those members that haven't come to church in a while probably
would not be doing missionary work. Well apparently this is not the case,
because 2 of the 5 people I talked about at the beginning were found by such
members. I cannot relay to you the strange excitement that comes when you
get a call from a member that has gone astray and they say, "I have a
person that I want you to teach and I want you to help me come back to church
so that I can help them."
Which leads me to the next person I
wanted to talk about, G.... So the member that found him is named Brother F.,
and Brother F. has
not been to church in a long time. But he made friends with G. after
Brother F. fell out of a tree and was recovering in the
hospital. He called us up and told us that G. needs our help really bad
and that he knows that he needs the Gospel in his life. When we met G. we
soon realized what the problem was.
So for anyone that does not know
this, missionaries tend to have this strange spirit about them that makes
anyone that is talking to them realize what the Lord wants of them and why they
are falling short. Now I am not going to explain everything that is wrong
with our good friend G. but I will say this, he is like a man who has lost God
in his life.
He spent his life searching after the things that he thought
would bring him happiness, but he lost it all in a second and now we are trying
to help him find out what will really bring him happiness. Now G... is
not and was not a bad guy, in fact he is a great guy who is wealthy, has a nice
house, has a nice car, and yet all those things no longer bring him
happiness. Because there is no makeup of material possessions in this
world that can bring someone lasting happiness, only the Gospel can do that.
I am not going to try to fit
anymore in this already giant email. But I am grateful to be here helping
these people and that I have the opportunity to be a tool of the Lord’s.
I can honestly say that I would not give it up for any material possessions in
this world.
Elder Erb
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