Hey Everyone,
This past week has been so full - between helping four different families move, putting someone on date for baptism and meeting so many more people. It's been so crazy that we have missed eating lunch every day because we're busy serving, teaching, and going to meetings.
Julio, a guy that we have been teaching for a couple of months, agreed to be baptized this last week! In an effort to build his testimony, he has been working hard on praying, reading, studying, and even taking an institute class on the Book of Mormon to learn more. It has been amazing to watch him learn, grow, and for the first time accept the light and power of Christ into his life. We are hoping to put Jaden, a child we are teaching, on date tomorrow as well, which should be great.
We met a great guy named Ki who moved here with his family from Hawaii. They felt inspired to move here and have been blessed for their faith and diligence. They have been blessed with jobs, a home, and more. There are a lot of people who are just trying to do their best with what they have been given and it works.
We are also working with the Herrera family – a great family where only the dad is a member and the rest are pretty interested in learning more. It's sad to see when others aren't able to grow up with religion or really don’t know the religion they do have. There have been multiple Catholic people we have ran into this week who know Jesus Christ died for them, or atoned for them, but don't even know what that means, or who Jesus Christ even is.
Some things that have really resonated with me this past week in my studies have been the words of Peter and Paul in Hebrews. Both have a deep-set belief in faith and in exercising faith. From Hebrews 7 about the Melchizedek Priesthood to Hebrews 11 about actions for faith – they’re great.
We have also had some changes to our daily schedule. Daily planning has been changed to night and personal scripture study / comp study have both been moved back an hour. While it does cut down on the morning prep time it makes sure we can get personal and companion study in each day. It will be interesting to see how this new schedule will change the work moving forward.
I am so glad to be serving here in Utah and to be out on my mission.
Elder Cluff
