Email to Family and Friends
This week has been so successful!! Just yesterday we had 5 of our investigators pick a specific day on which they will be baptized! We also had 8 investigators at church and 20 less Actives at church too!! Elder Tucker and I have been working hard to make this a great transfer! I am great full for him and his diligence.
We have the best Ward mission leader in the whole church! His name is Brother Bailey and not only is he an amazing missionary, but we live with him and he is a super handy man! He can literally make anything to belt buckles, to Damascus steel knifes and hatchets, to wedding rings. All very high quality.
Last week we went to the wood shop and found this beautiful wood. It is called King Wood, it is a Mexican Rose wood, it is a gorgeous purple, it is the 8th hardest wood in the world and it is so rare that you can't import it to America anymore. Haha so we bought some and made rings out of it! I'll include a picture.
"Rod of Iron"
The other day I found this little piece of treasure in the Book of Mormon. It is Nephi, and most of us are familiar with Lehis vision of the tree of Life. And some of us are even pretty familiar with Nephis vision of were he sees all that his father saw. But shortly after Nephi has his vision he is speaking with his brothers and attempting to help them understand, and as he does so he says this about the rod of iron.
"And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction." (1)
For those of you who were able to see President Monsons latest talk in General Conference, you will notice that Nephi's and President Monsons invitations and promises are in strict harmony!
I invite all who read this to earnestly read the Book of Mormon everyday, and I can promise you that as you do so, the sins which easily beset you, will soon have no power over you. It is of this I testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Philip R. Bredsguard
Mission Home: 1848 Rimrock Road, Billings, Montana
Current Address: 312 3rd Ave. N. #8 Great Falls MT 59401
Notes
- 1 Nephi 15:24
"MLC (Mission Leadership Counsel)"
"MLC (Mission Leadership Counsel) - Funny"
"Branding"
"KingWood ring we made"
