October 18, 2010

From: Ryan Jay Allred
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:41 AM
To: Allred, Kevin
Subject: How Rare a Possesion!

 

Hey!

      I am pretty excited this week and I just wanted to make sure you all knew that!  I'll get to all of the cool things that happened this week in a bit but first I wanted to see how everyone is doing on your Book of Mormon reading.  I had started reading with the primary kids to read the whole thing in 90 days but then this last week changed everything.  We were challenged by our mission President in zone conference to read the entire Book of Mormon before next zone conference in January but with a special twist.  He gave each of us a new copy and the assignment to mark every name referring to the Saviour in one color, then every time he is talking in another color.  Wow, that is soo cool.  I haven't gotten very far yet but already I just love flipping back through the pages I have already cdone and seeing how much The Book of Mormon testifies of Christ.  I love it. My entire life I have loved it and considered it one of my most prized possessions mostly because of how I feel as I read it.  In the introduction Joseph Smith testified that if we live live by it's precepts it will bring us closer to God than any other book.  That's why I love it, that is how I am coming to know my Saviour and that is why I am so excited to read the Book of Mormon this way.  So I probably won't finish with the rest of you because I had to start over but Keep Going.

     This week was sweet though.  Elder Solomon and I are trying to Flood Gridley with the Book of Mormon and we are feeling the Spirit direct us often especially as we head to lessons.  I got the package this week with Book's with Dad's, Mom's and Kristie's testimonies in them.  THank you soo much.  It will mean a lot to me to be able to share those with others.  But probably the best part of the week was at church yesterday.  At first we thought it was going to be one of those weeks where noone shows up but we decided to wait in the foyer untill the sacrement just in case someone showed up late because we were expecting at least four people.  Well, guess what, no one came so we went in and had the sacrament.  But then, we went back out to check again and Susan had come!!!  So we brought her in with us and Sister Hamblin called her over to sit with her.  

      This ward doesn't normally have a class for investigators but I didn't feel comfortable sending her to the other classes yet.  Actually she was going to leave after the first hour but she had felt the spirit and the love of the ward so she stayed and we put together an impromptu class for her.  While Elder Solomon and I where out finding more people to come to it Susan talked with the Hamblins and told that that she didn't know the Speakers but everything they said about the church just felt good to her!  Then our class was just overflowing with the spirit as it turned in to a testimony meeeting with some othe recent converts we had brought in.  Awesome, just Awesome!  SHe loved it and stayed for relief society.  She is doing soo well to take steps on her own and we can fell the Lord's love for her often.

      Well I wish I had more time to tell you more, but just know that I love you all.  I believe that this is Christ's church and as the prophets have testified He is closer to you and this work than you can ever imagine.  We see his hand sweep the streets before us to prepare the way.  Just last night we were led to a young couple home who needed us right then and we happened to knock on their door.  The Saviour lives!  I have heard his voice, and I know his word!  IT is open to all of us within the Book of Mormon.  Read it!

    Love YA!
Elder Ryan J Allred

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Hurrah For Israel!!!

 

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