Hey family! Again it was so good to talk to all of you yesterday! And one last shout out for happy mothers day mom! Love you!
This week was good. We were pretty busy with an exchange at the beginning of the week and zone conference at the end of the week.
Our investigators are progressing pretty well to their baptisms. Shalise should be getting baptized this next week and so please just keep her in your prayers!
As for another one of our investigators we will be doing a stop smoking program with him this next week. He really wants to quit smoking because he knows it is important and will draw him closer to god so that he can be baptized! As well this last week he said one morning he prayed for god to help him quit and later when he was with his girlfriend he saw the ashtray with the cigarette there and immediately the temptation was there for him to smoke. He said that as he went to smoke that he felt this burning inside and got this really sick feeling so he put the cigarette down! He knew that God was answering his prayer. I too know that God hears and answers our prayers and that if we are humble and willing to accept his council or asking things that are right then he will guide us, answer us, strengthen us and lift us up to accomplish the things that he requires of us!
Another one of our families that we have been working with are doing fantastic! It is great to see when families begin to pray together how their lives turn over to God. Sometimes there is nothing sweeter than seeing that light in people's eyes and knowing that their hearts are changing.
Elder John H. Groberg once said, "All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family—someway, somewhere, somehow—and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.
We learn that friends and neighbors come and go but family is forever, and as we learn this, we find that we are eternally our brother’s keeper and we begin to realize how much help we need. How we should thank God for the opportunity of family prayer!
Listen to the admonition of the Savior in Third Nephi: “Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.” (3 Ne. 18:21.)"
-Taken from his conference address April 1982 The Power of Family Prayer. https://www.lds.org/
I encourage each of you to read this talk. I promise as you draw close to Heavenly Father through fervent prayer that he will bless you individually and as families. I love you all!
Well family, looking forward to another great week!
Love, Sister Beames
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