Hi family, 12
June 2013
So .the baseball game and clean up I told you about last
week went awesome this morning!! haha. I
loved it. We got to play a real game
with an 18 year old team. I had a team of 8 missionaries that cant or don’t
really play. Ha. I hit a double and
walked but it felt good to play again!
That’s awesome that there are so many missionaries now.
It just scares me though because with so many missionaries things get really
unorganized and they start to do what they want instead of what they should
do! But the Lord knows what he’s doing
and each batch of missionaries seem better prepared than the last. So, cool!
Anyway, my new comp and I are working hard to find people
that are interested in the gospel. We
had a guy show up to church that met with the missionaries before. His name is Victor Power and we have had the
chance to put a baptismal date with him and help him to overcome his habits of
drinking and smoking. We also met a guy
that was deported from the States after having done 25 years in jail for
selling drugs. He stopped us as we were
walking past his house on Sunday and told us that he wanted a copy of the Book
of Mormon in English. So we went by the
next day and explained to him what the book is and we invited him to church and
to be baptized and he loved the idea so he said yes.
My companion is really new in the mission getting used to the mission is a process - ha and he only has been in the church
for 2 years so he doesn’t know a ton about the scriptures and is learning to teach He’s just green (newbie) and has a lot to
learn. But he’s willing and really has a
testimony of the gospel and of the Church.
He loves the Lord and wants to serve.
Honestly, I’m grateful that I’m his comp now. I think that I can help him to learn just as
I did when I was a greenie at the start of my mission. He´ll be my last companion and he will be
able to teach me a lot, also.
I love how in the mission we always get to feel the influence
of the Spirit and help others to feel it as well. If there are one or two things that I’ll miss
of the mission, it’ll be the feelings I get and all of the fruit here!!! Haha. But,
honestly I can say that in the mission I have felt as it says in Mosiah 28, 3-4
where the sons of Mosiah are preaching to the Lamanites… .
3 Now they were
desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could
not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that
any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble.
4 And thus did the Spirit of the Lord work upon
them…..
I want others to
be changed just as I have changed!!
LOVE YALL
--
ELDER
MATT GRINER
Misión
Santiago, RD
2011-2013
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