Thank you so much for emailing me. I was so excited to see Riley doing so well in basketball. I am on fire with it my friend. I wish I could be there to see him play, but I know my priorities and my desires are to serve the Lord. Bishop Waldron got released did he, Now its Bishop Scott. That is good to know. Bishop Waldron was amazing and I love him for the service he gave to the Chaparral ward. I know too that Bishop Scott will do great also. I love your support that you have for me and I thank you for all that you and tha Family do.
Well its coming up fast, you know I will be calling you on Chrstmas day. I would like to Skyp you and talk to you over the phone so that way we can see and hear each other, just in case the connection is bad on the skyp and we cannot hear that well. What time should I call you? I want to know in advance so that I can make everything work out. Let me know these details so that I can get it all worked out.
Well my week had be great and here is how it went...
I must say, I am getting excited for what is happening here in Telford. I can see miracles beginning to unfold right before my eyes. It is amazing how having faith will allow the Lord to perform miracles as we serve. What I mean by that is that there is great potential with the Badger family(part member family), who I mentioned about last week. Sister Badger came to church, like she usually does, but this time with her two children Estella and Ellis(age 17 and 9). Estella is participating much in the lessons and Ellis is enjoying primary. Elder Hill and I are planning to begin teaching Estella and Ellis this week. By starting the teaching process of teaching this week we will be able to have them dated for the twenty-fourth of December and also enables us to reach our goal of two baptisms by the end of the year. This is what I meant by miracles beginning to unfold. We have shown faith that we can achieve this goal and the Lord is providing a way.
We also had great progress with Damion earlier this week and had a fantastic lesson. He is reading the Book of Mormon and has claimed to feel the spirit when he does read from the Book of Mormon. We haven't had a lesson with him since then and I am a bit sad about that. We were planning to meet with him on Friday but he couldn't make it because he was feeling under the weather. We also invited him to church but he didn't come. We will be making contact with him very soon and we pray for him all the time. He still has great potential to progress. I think what will help him most is by getting him involved with members in the ward of his age group which there are a few in mind that would work well with him. We will be on that this week.
We Taught a young woman this week on the spot. Her name is Charlie. We had a great lesson with her and she did feel the spirit strongly. The spirit was also strong when Elder Hill and I bore sincere testimony to her about the restored gospel. We will not be teaching her in the future though because she has just moved to South Hampton. We have created a teaching record for her and will send it to the mission office who then can forward it to the missionaries in her area. We have her contact details so we will be able to get her exact location where she is moving to. I don't believe it was coincidence that we met her, she is prepared for the truth.
We also got to teach a man named Ross. We met Ross a few weeks ago and set an appointment with him. When we went to the appointment he was not home so we figured we will try by another time. We met a young man just the other day named Deon, who actually turned out to be Ross' son. Deon set up a fake appointment with us but because of that we were led back to Ross. When we met with Ross we ended up finding out that his sons real name was George. Even though it was a false appointment, it led us back to Ross and he is definitely prepared for the restored gospel. He invited us in warmly and we had a great lesson with him yesterday. He is committed to read the Book of Mormon and to also pray about it. He also would like to be baptised when he find it to be true. He had some great questions a true investigator would ask. We are very excited for him here in Telford.
I am so grateful for serving in this area where so many great things are about to unfold. This is a great time of year and I know it makes up for the cold weather(by the way it is freezing out here and I am in it for several hours at a time). It is so great to be a missionary no matter what the condition are. I hope you have a great week.
Love Elder Tucker Corbin
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