Week 95 in Trio and Hurricane

 

Week 95    Aug 10, 2020

 For this weeks email we actually start ok. Tuesday and it's been a crazy week for sure! Tuesday is when Hurricane Issias was passing by and we got a lot of rain and wind. We still had fun and hit Golf Balls at the Church Property during the rain! While on the way home we saw two large trees fallen over blocking us so we had to go home the long way. One of the trees landed on the hood of a car! If it would have gone a few feet further, it would have killed the man driving. Shorty after the police and fire fighters got there. We then came home relaxed and called home. Elder Reids Dad Grub hubbed us some seafood. He got us crawfish, shrimp and some crab legs.

     With the storms from the Hurricane, many apartments lost power so the Ashford Elders were with us for about 3 days. It was pretty fun this past week, because we were juggling three areas and kept pretty busy! For the Norwich side not too much but texted a lot of people. Friday we were able to have an “In-Person” District Council!!! It was so nice, later that day we started to teach a man named "Jamesly" he was someone taught in the past, he is pretty cool! Nothing too much other than that. This upcoming Wednesday I will be getting another new companion but this time he is a reassigned missionary but that’s all I know! 

     I simply want to bare my testimony that "Joseph Smith Jr" truly was a prophet called of God! As he went into a grove of trees in1820, he prayed to know which of all the churches were true or were they wrong all together. From this prayer he truly did see God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ in the flesh! They indeed did speak to him by name and let him know that none of the churches were true! A few years later a Heavenly messenger appeared to Joseph Smith and told him of an ancient record of Christ’s dealings with the people on the American Continent, These were called the Gold Plates! By the power of God, Joseph Smith was able go translate this record written in "Reformed Egyptian" into English.  We now know it as the Book of Mormon and it is written in over 100 languages! I have read this Book and I truly do know from the bottom of my heart that it is the Word of God, WITH the Bible its whole purpose is go help others learn what Christ’s Gospel is! I say this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen