July 27, 2015

Coming Back Home

It's great to be back in the Killeen zone! It feels like coming home. I love Killeen and I forgot about the culture of the military style life. I'm slowly working myself back into the yes sir and yes mam. I have already been able to see some of the members when I served in Lampasas. The high council man for our Ward was the elders quorum president when I was in Lampasas. His oldest boy that would come out on exchanges with us now has his mission call and is getting ready to serve his mission. He has grown spiritually a lot.

Elder Fowles and I have had a great week already! The elders here have been teaching this little girl off and on and we went over on Thursday and talked with the family and set a game plan for her to be baptized. We asked if she would be baptized and she said yes, I would like to be baptized on my birthday. We said great when is your birthday? she said the 28th. of this month? yes. Well if you look at when that was it was 4 days away from when we talked about it with her. So we have been busy the past couple of days trying to get ready for a baptism that was unexpected. 

I also had a experience with my father in heaven last night. I was chastised by him in my pray. it was well need experiance because it made me realize that I need to lose my pride and listen to what others have to say. Yesterday was just super stressful for me with new zone, new area, new ward, new investigators and just everything new. Well one of our district leaders had been bugging us a tone about a car issue. There is a car sitting in the zone not being used for right now because a couple of elders don't have driving privileges. I came up with a solution to the problem that I thought was pretty good but the district leader dint think so. So we talked about it for a while and I was just to prideful to change. and while this conversation was happening I just kept losing respect for this Elder and was just super negative towards him. when we got home I just felt bad the whole and I could fix it with what ever i did. We i went to say my pray last night I was chastised about my pride. and the whole time I was praying I felt that I need to say I'm sorry and actually listen to what my zone has to say. After that I was able to feel a lot better and going forward from here I promised that I would listen to the zone and hear what they have to say before I make a decision. Sometimes we all need to be compelled to be humble and I needed this one.

Elder Winterbottom & Elder Fowles 

Serving in Killeen

The Lord's Vineyard 

Arlington 6th Ward Members

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