Happy Valentines to you all! We had a great Valentines day I don't know about you all! Hopefully all of the men got something sweet for the women in your lives.
Congrats to my Brother and Sister in law and soon to be Parents!
To start off the week we had the lesson with Alison and Jaime who were the friends of the Ackermans that I mentioned in last weeks email. I honestly wasn't expecting them to show up to the Ackermans home for the lesson but they were there and we shared the restoration with them. That lesson was probably the most powerful one so far on my mission. The spirit was so strong and everything was perfect. We set their baptism date for the 28th of this month but will have to reset it because they weren't able to make it to church because of work. They are really positive and are now reading from the Book of Mormon. We hope to contact them this week and teach them more.
We have a lady named Carmen who we have been teaching for a while and she has been smoking for a long time and she has tried to quit a couple times already but hasn't been able to. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and then the 15 step program that the church offers. We gave her a priesthood blessing and she hasn't touched a cancer stick since Monday when we taught her. Anyone who is looking to get rid of that addiction I would recommend that, ask the missionaries in your area to help you out.
Jason who I said last week had a job interview and got the job he was applying for!!! The prayers worked! Thank you for everyone who prayed for him. He got a new job that not only is better pay for him but also allows him to have sundays off so he will be attending church with us and hopefully will be having his baptism early March. He is taking us out to eat tonight for fun, he is probably my favorite investigator (don't tell anyone else that).
We had Roberts baptism on Valentines day thats why ours was so good! Elder Holmstead performed the baptism and then I was able to confirm him a member into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints yesterday in sacrament meeting. What a blessing it has been to be able to see his conversion. He has a strong testimony and is a great guy. He had some addictions that he was fighting before the missionaries taught him and it is just a testimony to me that the Gospel really does change lives.
We have been challenged this last week to write our testimonies in a Book of Mormon and then pass it out to one of our investigators. We haven't done it yet but are planning on doing it soon.
In our ward our High Priest group leader works at Disney and had a coworker that had tried to convert him into his religion and he came across anti information and so Bro Staber would just bare his testimony on the Book of Mormon any time he would say something. The guy read the Book of Mormon in 2 weeks and then went through the D&C in another week. He simply was thirsting for truth but didn't know where to find it. The guy now is getting baptized in 2 weeks or so.
I challenge whoever is reading this email to do the same. Write why the Book of Mormon is meaningful to you and what it has done for you and give it to a friend who is not a member.
Thank you all for your love and support in my behalf.
Tune in next week for more.
Elder Gardner
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