Well I want to start off with the something exciting that
happened this morning. So this morning i was reading through the September 2013
Ensign, and i was just reading through a few talks, And GUESS WHAT??? The next
talk i turned to was "The Healing Balm of Hope," By Vaughn E.
Worthen. And i was like Wait! I know that guy, that's Caleb Worthens Dad, and
then had a little burst of excitement to my companion. Then i read his
wonderful talk that he wrote, and was amazing that i was actually reading a Ensign
Article from one of My Best Friends Dad!! Crazyness!! My Favorite part is
" We should focus on effort and progress rather than complete success.
Confidence is not the certainty of success but rather the conclusion that
failure does not determine our worth- we lose nothing by trying."
So this has been a crazy awesome week! Last week we set a
goal to tract every single day, no matter how busy or crazy our schedule is,
and we have been successful. Heavenly Father has Blessed me and Elder Jenson
with Many Many Miracles. We have met so many nice people, who have invited us
back into their home to hear the Gospel. I could go on and on about all the
people we met this week, but that would take forever. But it sufficeth me to
say Heavenly Father has Blessed us! I have been having fun tracting with Elder
Jensen, we are getting really good at a door approach. I used to hate tracting,
and knocking doors, but now i kind of enjoy it, and enjoy meeting all the
people. We Introduce ourselves, and ask if we can say a prayer for them to
bless their family, ( i mean come on who doesn't want an extra prayer for them)
and then we say the prayer, and then ask them how they felt. Then we start
teaching on the Doorstep about prayer, and lead that into the Book of Mormon,
or about Jesus Christ's Plan for us or whatever the Spirit tells us to teach
them about. Then we teach a little 5 minute Short and Powerful lesson on their
doorstep, and then ask if we can come back and share more. That approach has
been super successful for us, and we've been getting better and better at it.
So Sunday was Super Spiritually Awesome!! Before church
started we went to our 16 year old female Investigator Memory's house to see if
she was coming to church. And YAY!! she was already dressed and ready for
church, and hour early. So we arranged a ride for her with a member Sister
Williams, a nice old Hawaiian Filipino Lady. Then we loaded her wheel chair
into the car for her, and drove off to church. We got to church, had sacrament
meeting, and it was a missionary farewell so there was awesome speakers,
focused on missionary work. Then after Sacrament a bunch of the Young Women
came over and introduced themselves and talked to her, then they invited Memory
to come to class with them. And so they took her, and pushed her in her wheel
chair off to class. All the Young Women were super nice to Memory, and loved
her. After Church Memory had the biggest smile on her face i have ever seen,
and was super happy, and glowing! Then we asked her how she liked church and
she said " It was so much fun!" Then Sister Williams drove Memory
back home. Some of the young women are going to come to the next lesson. I have
never seen a person Welcomed into a Ward like on Sunday, and i have never seen
someone love church so much there first time coming! What a miracle!
At 4pm Sunday we had lesson with a new investigator we got
last week. So we were driving to that and then we got a call from some Elders
in the Zone, saying that we needed to come to them ASAP. They were visiting
some investigator, and then a Giant Mastive Dog broke off its chain and chased
the Elder Mendoza ( a small Filipino elder) and Bit his arm. Then the Dog
let go and chased a smaller Dog, and killed the smaller dog. Someone
called the Cops, to report what happen, and an ambulance came to the scene. We
rescheduled our lesson, and drove straight to them to help out. When we got
there, the cop was filing the report, and someone was dressing Elder Mendoza's
wound. He has a few bite marks in his arm, and a few gashes, but he's gonna be
okay. We gave them a ride home, since they dont have a car.
This whole last week we have been trying to work on our
Training. On Tuesday tomorrow, we have Zone Conference. Combined Waipahu and
Makakilo Zone. And me and Elder Jensen have to have a 45 minute long Training
to give at Zone Conference. We are going to train on Resolving Concerns, Asking Inspired Questions, and Committing. With a few more things in between
those.
Our Investigators are all doing great, I am loving this Area
more and more every day! and growing closer and closer and loving more and more
all the people i meet.
I love you al, thanks for Reading. I know Jesus Lives, and
That Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God, and that We are Sons and Daughters
of the Living God. I love you all, and have a great week! Thanks David and
Lindsay for the Letter and the Great News! Congratulations and Im super Excited
for the Both of you!
Love Elder Morgan James Durocher
About an hour earlier Morgan wrote:
Hi Dad since we email in the Family History Center, They
were helping me look up our ancestors for our Durocher Name. have you done very
much of the work on the Durocher side? I know Oma Heller has tons of
generations back on the Heller side, but the Durocher side aint got nothing on
LDS family search. I tried looking up to see if we are related Distantly to Leo
Durocher, because i get asked if I'm related to him at least once a week,
and i always say " i don't think so, i need to do my family history."
Has Grandma Wanda or Grandpa Doug done very much family history, or do they
know where there ancestors come from? I'm just super interested now that i was
looking it up. Is Grandpa's Legal Name Douglas? or Doug? and where was he born
and what year?
Love you Dad, i got some homework for you to do haha.
Love Elder Morgan Durocher
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