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| Cutting wood with a member of the ward and keeping up with the Knowlden Family Tradition of Moving and Stacking the Woodpile |
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| Elder Pulu and Knowlden |
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| Elder Pulu & Knowlden's duplex in Clinton Connecticut |
Well I
hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving week! This week was a great
experience. We have a new person we are starting to teach, and working on
a couple’s baptismal date for December. In the spirit of Thanksgiving I gave my
Thanks though letters.
Throughout the week I met a man, one of the members with dinner
appointments. Unfortunately Elder Pulu had a huge migraine on Tuesday so not
much got done as I would of hoped, I finished the Second book of Nephi in the
Book of Mormon! Once again we had companion study with Elder Hodgkinson, our
service missionary companion. It was great he has so much insight!
Thanksgiving we had dinner with the Folgulman Family, We are so
thankful for their willingness to feed us. It was strange not being home
for the Holidays, but I still felt the Love of a family setting.
As it is now Friday and in the spirit of Thanksgiving I wrote
everyone in my family a small letter of what I am thankful for them that has
helped me grow. Also for those of you reading this if you want to write me back
and forth just email me your addresses! My Email if you don’t know is Brayden.knowlden@myldsmail.net.
Friday was awesome we had a member feed us a nice steak lunch,
and it was really good! Later on in District counsel we had a great lesson on the
importance of the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony of it! Saturday came and
was a day full of service helping out Lars with moving logs around. (Yes I
moved the wood Pile)... but it was great spending time helping him and getting
to know him better. Finally Sunday, Church was so great we had four
speakers talking about the importance of the two hour time change to come in
January and focusing on a Home centered, Church supported program. I soon came
to find out as we had dinner at the bishops house that he is a professor at
Yale University!
In the spirit of thanksgiving I am so thankful for the Book of
Mormon, through it ,I know that the Gospel truly is restored, as I read it and
I pray for guidance. it answers my question, through the Holy Ghosts direction,
it helps me know what to say in lessons and how to help others come to know of
the truth of the Book of Mormon for themselves.
If I could sum one Thing I learned today is something Domingo
told me (one of our friends interested in the church) He said " I love
when you read from the scriptures, you take brief pauses and its amazing, I
have never heard it that way before, so thank you." As he said that it
made me think, then I realized why it’s effective. As we take our time and not
rush through it, we slow down remember that these are words of God and we
should remember that it is important. If we are slower and take brief pauses we
allow the Holy Ghost to help bear witness of the truth and the Book of Mormons
truth.
Kelly and Domingo are doing great we have had a few great
lessons with them, they are so ready to learn so much more. They came to church
and accepted a baptismal date! Lars we are still working on, as he said he isn’t
ready YET. it gives us hope to help him along his Journey and help him when he
truly is ready. Liz is great, we have had two lessons with her, and her husband
is now going to start meeting with us! Liz has so many great questions and
wants to better understand what is being taught. As we visit her this week we
are inviting her and her husband Ron to attend church this week!
I love my First area so far it has been amazing. I love the
people as well. I know that I am called to be here for a reason, and I
know that Elder Pulu is suppose to be my trainer. As I go through this journey
I know that God will put me where I need to be, and as the Holy Ghost leads me
as I act on its words I can better bear testimony of our beloved Savior Jesus
Christ, Amen.
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