Sunday, March 1, 2015
January 26, 2015
Dear Fam:
This week was pretty good. We taught alot of lessons but couldnt find anyone good, they were all super flaky. But this week will be way better!!!
This week was pretty good. We taught alot of lessons but couldnt find anyone good, they were all super flaky. But this week will be way better!!!
Spencers home! Thats crazy, his misson passed so fast! hes such a good example for all the youn men. ya i emailed him like 2 weeks ago, i felt bad because i hadnt like emailed him his whole mission. but he served with my good buddy reid arne!
Thats awesome jake! you are one determined dude, stay focused and keep progressing in the gospel! i remember my first lesson in priest quorum...i was scared to death. ya dont worry about this fall, we´ll go on member lessons with the missionaries all day erryday boiii! and when we arent baptizing those sinners we can go to the gym and get jacked together.
Dad you´re awesome. you´re the best dad ive ever had! :)
4th quarter is our quarter!!!
well now for a little spiritual thought:
We did have one experience really special this week, we had a less active named nathalia that called to us in the road a few weeks ago and has been going to church 4 weeks straight now and talked with bishop and really wants to get her life back together. she said she loves going to church and has never felt this much desire to go to church in a long time. She has one of the strongest testimonies i have seen. We have taken her on a few member lessons and she has helped a ton, we took her to this other girl we are teaching named valeria, and it was awesome! Valeria has 20 years old and has a little boy of 2 years, she has said so many times she wanted to go to church but hasnt gone, but she read the whole book of mormon and the whole index in the back! she said she knows its true, so we didnt wanna give up on her. But we had to talk to her really firm about going to church, and it seems like it helped. She went to a baptism on saturday and to church sunday. she loved it and already has a few friends at church! her baptism is marked for the 7th of febuary. Im sure nathalias testimony helped strengthened valerias . The spirit is so strong and nathalia cant help but try and hold back her tears everytime she bears her testimony in the member lessons. When we walked her back to her house after the lesson she started crying as she thanked us for "rescuing" her and helping her come back to church. It caught both of us (Elder Smith and i) offguard, we were speechless and sat there for a moment and then she quickly changed the subject. But It was kinda nice to hear someone say thank you, its not what i look for or even what i desire in this work, but after knocking doors all day and being rejected so much when we are just trying to help people, it was kinda nice to hear a sincere "thank you." I think we experienced just a little of what Christ feels when someone applies his atonement, experimetns of the fruit of the tree of life, and stops, and with a sincere heart kneels down and cries out through the tears "Thank you! Thank you!" I think thats why the Savior was so willing to do what he did, so that he could see all of us experience the love that he has for each one of us "True Love of Christ". So let us show the Lord that we are grateful for what he did, saying "thank you" for his sacrifice and his service, but not just with our words, but with our actions, applying the atonement in our lives, and helping others to do so, and afterwads saying thank you! I know He Lives and Loves each of us. I know his atonement is powerful beyond our understanding, i know that "whoever you are, and whater you have done, you can be forgiven!"
Love you all! have a great week!
-Elder Grondel!
NGUNNGU
January 19, 2015
Diligent missionaries and Prayers from all over the world brought to pass this beautiful day!!!
January 12, 2015
BOM DIA!!! Ya i have been loving the treats...i miss america...alot. ha. Elder Smith is loving the treats that came as well.
Thank you so much for the prayers! You had a big influence on the spirit that was felt in the lessons and at the baptism. The baptism was wonderful! There were so many people there! and they made threee cakes! it was great to see the support of the members, all the prayers and testimonies and everything was all members! it was the most organized bapism i have seen on my mission. We have a ward mission leader thats 20 years old and is on fire.
Igor was baptized by his uncle who lives in another ward here and served a mission and is super firm in the church. he has been helping rogerio and is family out a ton in this process. Yesterday at church the bishop had an interview with rogerio and simone and it looked like it helped out a ton! also, Elder smiths dad sent us a talk about marriage to give them and we saved it on their computer but the comp broke a little bit ago and when simone was messin with it this week the screen came on and that talk was opened up and she said she read the whole thing! and she loved it! the name of the talk is "falling out of love and climbing back in" its on the church website. i havent read it yet but it sounds super good by what people have said about it.
well we are still working with karen but her life has gotten really busy because of this test she has been waiting to take for like 8 years to get the job she wanted, so her time is super limited ith studies and stuff. but i know she knows its true, shell for sure get baptized.
sounds like life will be gettin pretty busy for you guys as well! i thought jake would graduate early? wouldnt he graduate in june either way?
The mission is getting super intense, they are raising alot of the rules and our goals, i think we could all use this pep talk from dad to awaken the giant within!!!
well it has been super sunny and its supposed to be the same thing this week, high 80´s to low 90´s. i thought the rain would start...but no:(
i got some super good mission shoes from this american elder that gave me when i went and did a division there last week. they are super comfy and super storng. they are called "mission shoe" ha.
well we have another great week in front of us! continue praying please, it will be a super important week for rogerio so that he can stop smoking and be baptized this week! well i love you guys and im so grateful for all that you are doing for me!
have a great week!
tchau!
-Elder Grondel
January 5, 2015
Elder Grondel Got his Christmas Package from America!!!
Wild New Year's Eve!
"BOM DIA!!! Ya i have been loving the treats...i miss america...alot. ha. Elder Smith is loving the treats that came as well."
"BOM DIA!!! Ya i have been loving the treats...i miss america...alot. ha. Elder Smith is loving the treats that came as well."
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