November 28, 2011

Thank you so much for writing me. I enjoyed reading your email. Riley is doing great huh. Fourteen big ones, nice. Tell him good job for me. Unfortunately I am limited to internet sites and I will not be able to read Riley's article but I will when I am home. I am glad you had a great thanksgiving and a good time with everyone around. Elder Hill and I had a great thanksgiving and had pasta bake with roast pototoes and cheesecake. really tasty. Thanks for the inspiring words you sent me. I really like that quote I will learn that one. Well here is the week I have had...

 

We have had a great week here in Telford. I can see that the future of this area is beginning to grow. It has so much potential and it is on the verge of turning the corner to making miracles appear. There is a part member family in this ward which we are planning to take some progress with. The Badger family, I just think that is a great name to begin with. There is the mother, Michelle, who is a convert of three years now and has such a strong testimony. Now her children are not members but are recently showing interest. Estella is at the age of seventeen and Ellis is nine. This past week we had a family home evening with them and we got to know each other much better. I feel we have made a huge step by doing that. Now we are focused on talking with Sister Badger on what we can do to take the next step which we believe is to teach them. I'll let you know how it turns out. I am so excited for it.

Damion. He is our most progressing investigator and he is beginning to catch fire. I think what is so great about him is that Elder Hill and I have a great bond between us, just as friends would. That is a key strength and he likes to meet with us because of that. Ever since we had first taught him, we have seen a definite change and he has seen it too. He keeps commitments that we give him and that has been the factor of that change. His biggest concern is having faith. He finds it difficult to believe that Jesus Christ is able to perform miracles such as walking on water, etc. From what we have seen he will continue to develop faith and slowly but surely his doubt with fade because of his willingness to keep commitments.

Paul, the investigator we have just found last week, is also very sincere about meeting with us. He is a great man and has a very high potential and is happy most of the time. On our follow-up visit with him he was once again welcoming just as the first time. He has read from the Book of Mormon and we showed our excitement for that. From what he understands of the restoration, he does believe Joseph Smith to be a prophet of God.

We had a great experience this week in which we applied a teaching tactic described on page 159 of PMG. It talks about skipping the appointment request and just start teaching them, then and there. We have tried it once with a couple of gentlemen on there lunch break but they just said in the middle of the the teaching and testifying, "maybe another time mate". A few days later we put it to the test again with this man named Mark. He had just finished laying bricks in his front porch and we started talking to him and asked him how his day was and all that. We were talking to him about his son who is paralyzed from the chest down due to a motorcycle crash. Then yielded the subject into the atonement and Jesus Christ and his ministry on the earth. After fifteen minutes we had taught most of the restoration lesson and then invited him to be baptised, which he accepted. I was amazed about how well this tactic works. We are seeing him on our follow up visit this week. I am excited for him and his decision to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.
I am so excited for this week. I hope you are too, have a good one.

Love, Elder Tucker Corbin