We were in Corner Brook for Newfoundland Conference this weekend.
Thought you all might enjoy this
Dear Family,
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respond to everyone that writes so if you ever write me, I can
guarantee a response. I really appreciate your prayers as well. I know
whenever we get discouraged that prayer is the best place to go. There
have been a few times where I've gotten so fed up with the world and
prayer is right there to heal the frustration. I think sometimes we go
over the deep end sometime with being formal in our prayers. Honestly
we don't want to get too lax with the language we use, but some of the
best prayers I've had were being as real and genuine as I could. I
bear testimony of the power of prayer.
Our church holds some very unique doctrines compared to other churches
and philosophies. We believe that God continues to call prophets who
guide us through modern revelation. Whenever we have a concern about
the church it's important to study the concern. It's more important to
review our testimony of the church in general. Any objection to the
church basically hinges on whether or not Joseph Smith and his
prophetic descendants were and are prophets that receive guidance from
God for the whole world. To prove himself as a prophet called by God,
Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. If that book is true then
God has once again called a prophet and his kingdom is on the earth.
Throughout my whole mission I have encountered people every day who
have read unfavourable material about the church. Were it not for my
testimony of the Book of Mormon I would not be here. I know that
Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and I especially bear testimony that
Thomas S. Monson is a prophet called by God.
This previous week was an eventful one. We found a new investigator
and put him on date for January 23rd. We used to teach Gerald but he
went missing and didn't seem to have like any real intent, but now he
wants to make some changes in his life and get baptized. He's the
biker ex-hells angels guy if you remember from my previous emails.
January 23rd is actually his birthday so that worked out perfectly. We
now have three prospective priesthood holders on date to be baptized
for the 23rd. It would be great if I could remain her in Newfoundland
for that long. Most of our lesson with Gerald focused on Jesus
Christ's sacrifice for us. How he is indeed our saviour and that we
can be forgiven of our sins if we follow Him. I was on exchanges with
Elder Sortomme (again haha, this one was like our 5th exchange
together) and he bore great testimony that really softened Gerald's
heart.
The other new investigator we found was Crystal. Crystal is married,
has three kids, and works as a paralegal. I'm grateful for all of
those days in the office because we were able to have a chat about law
and stuff to break the ice. We actually knocked into her family the
other week in a freezing rain storm and she invited us back. She comes
from an anglican background but doesn't really go. We taught her the
restoration and invited her to be baptized. She isn't sure yet if she
wants to commit to a date. We did get her to commit to come to church
and read the Book of Mormon. We are finding so many great people to
teach. I love Newfoundland.
This past week we had Newfoundland conference. This meant getting all
of our members out to Corner Brook so that we all could skype into St.
John's for the conference. Those trips take so much out of me. The
coordinating of rides and housing and food and blah it's just hard,
but we got it figured out. Kind of something crazy that happened, but
the Corner Brook building got broken into. The guy like smashed the
Branch President's office with a jack hammer attachment and was using
all of these butcher knifes to try and get into the Family History
Centre. We are pretty sure he was looking for tithing money because
the clerks office was also ripped apart, but we don't keep money on
site. The building did get put back together for the meeting. It was a
great conference. Lots of talk about finding people for the
missionaries to teach and sustaining our leaders.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
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