Semana Noventa (Be Blessed Baby Dolls!)(Minden, LA)

Whelp....... It's Monday...... Again. Crazy how that works.

We had a great week here in Minden! We're finally starting to narrow down the elect in our teaching pool, and we had an investigator come to church this week and he loved it! So that's always a highlight.

On Saturday we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this spunky grandma we've been teaching recently named Pam. We had a member with us, and the lesson turned out great...... though it may have been the funniest gospel of Jesus Christ lesson I've ever taught. While we teaching the about the gift of the holy ghost, Sister Baxter (the member) jumped in and said something along the following..... "Oh yes Pam, when I the gift of the holy ghost gift it was like fire. When I got home from church, my skin began to heat up!  Soon I was down right burning up! And there was nothing I could do to cool off. I knew it was the Holy Ghost. I was being baptized by fire!" After assuring Pam, that she wouldn't necessarily "burn up" by recieving the gift of the holy ghost, the rest of the lesson went great. She even committed to come to the branch family home evening group with Sister Baxter Monday night. Woot woot!

Other than that, things seem to be picking up here in Minden, so we're excited for the future. A lot of awesome part member families we're working with for sure. I gave this email it's title because we were talking to this lady outside her house, and afterwards as we were going our separate ways she said, "alright now, be blessed now baby dolls". Oh my goodness, I love the south.

I just want to leave ya'll with a quick scripture and experience, there's a man we've been working with lately who's been completly inactive for the past thirty to forty years. We were sitting around his kitchen table, and he was really stressing about what he would need to do to repent, and if he could even be forgiven. This scripture immediatly came to mind, and we shared it with him......

Mosiah 26:30 

"Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me"

The Lord is there with open arms, he's simply waiting for us. It makes me think of the account in the Bible where Peter asks Christ how many times are we required to forgive our neighbors. Peter, felt he was being generous and proposed that we should forgive others up to seven times. Christ, immediatly responded with seventy times seventy. In other words...... "Peter, there is no limit." We're not here on this earth to count others trepasses against us. That's only going to make us bitter. We're here to become forgiving by nature, just as the Savior was and is. If we do that, we will live fuller, happier lives. Is it easy, no, but worth it.

I love ya'll! Take care, and stayed tooned for next week..... we're going gator wrastling next P-Day!  🐊

Elder Clark Fox
(La Iglesia De Jesucristo De Los Santos De Los Últimos Días)
(102 Emerald Drive Apt. 7 Minden, Louisiana 71055) 

P.S- Some one gave us this hilarious "dog mask" this week, so of course pictures were taken......