What a Week!

Dear Family and Friends,

OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A WEEK!  Very first I just have to tell you about the Rocky Mountain Oysters we had for dinner at a member's home this week.  They don't taste bad at all... but they're not really that delectable either.  The texture is exactly what you would expect, like a meatball.  Next time, we'll have to try them in a spaghetti sauce...

Moving on.

So we've spent much of the week just trying to find new investigators.  Like, interested investigators.  Not just people that have nothing to do all day say they'll let us come by and talk to them, but people who are really looking for something.  It's tough.  You've really got to talk to EVERYONE.  I like it.  Nothing too crazy to report, but we did have this experience where we had tracted and tried to talk to everyone we saw like all day without really finding anyone, but then we went to our appointment that evening with a less-active returning member and he had a friend over and was like "I told her that the missionaries were coming over and that she should stay and sit in on our lesson and she's fine with it."  So we ended up talking with her of course and she just really opened up and wants to change her life and learn about the restoration and everything.  It was way cool.

Something interesting I've been thinking about lately, of course, is faith.

I was reading the lectures on faith and it was communicated to me that faith is the power of words.  Basically, this is the power by which God has and will operate eternally, the power of his word.  He speaks it, and it is done.  Jesus taught us that if we had faith as a mustard seed, we should SAY to the mountain, be though removed (or whatever) and it should be done.  Joseph Smith taught that we have got to learn to be gods ourselves.  I think this is why verbal oaths meant so much back in the day and why our word really should be our bond in modern times as well.  We need to treat our word as something that will be done; that when it is spoken, it is as good as completed.  Am I articulating my point correctly?  Sometimes I'm not so good at communicating my thoughts...  Summary:  We have to learn to be like God.  He speaks it and it is done.  When we speak, we should see that it is done.

I hope all is going well, I will keep you in my prayers.  Have a great week!

Love
Elder Grabinger