Elder Dalton E. Griffin

January 22, 2018

Holy cow guys... this week has been crazy!!

Guys... It's been raining. All that snow we had??... It's quickly disappearing

Guys we have a new prophet, and a new first presidency, and they look awesome. I don't know if y'all saw the press Confrence or not. President Oaks was on fire. Watch out Babylon here comes President Oaks!. We also got to have a lesson with Brother Hartzell. Brother Fairbanks came with us. That was a very emotional meeting. I'm not one to shed tears but I came close in that meeting... 

Okay here comes the fun part. So we found this guy last week named Kurtis and he wanted us to come back over to teach his wife and his kids. Well we come over tuesday. He lets us right in. His girlfriends name is Crystal. She saw us and just rolled her eyes. She didn't want anything do with any preachers who were going to tell her that what she thought about religion was wrong. Kurtis kept asking her to listen. He said that he felt something with us and he would not have invited us back over if he hadn't felt that. Finally she asked some of her questions. They were all related to the plan of salvation. So we sat down and gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet. She quickly read over it. She like what it said and she started to listen. They asked us to come back again in two days. 

Well I left for exchanges. I was over in Slippery Rock. We taught a lady named Amanda who has a baptism date for the 24th of February. That's right. My birthday!   We then talked to a guy by the name of Caleb. He is a recent convert and wants to serve a mission, but... He wants a girl friend. So he had issues with those who are transgender, and homosexual because he feels that they are taking away his chances of getting a girlfriend. We had to explain to him that we have to love everyone. We talked about patriarchal blessings. We got something set up with him and his branch President. 

The next day we had service with one of the local churches. Then we had another lesson with Kurtis and Crystal. We spent a good two hours with them answering questions. At the end Kurtis said that he wants to be baptised. So does Crystal. Then they had us over two days later with their kids. They have five. Two of them are over the age of 8. We taught them the restoration, and prophets. We are seeing them on Wednesday again. 

We then had lunch with the Rex family. Rachel the mom, is from Garland! We spent a good 30 minuets talking about Garland and how things have changed. Then we talked to RT her husband who is not a member. He has had all of the lessons before and he knows the church is true, he just has a few issues with some of the members. 

We had a lesson with Jersey. We talked about the plan of salvation and we set her with a baptism date. It happens to be her birthday... as well as mine! That's right the 24th of February!! 

On Sunday we finally got Shannon to church. She loved it. The members where so good to her. 

We had lunch with her, and then we rushed over to the nursing home, we visited with Si for a few minuets and then we rushed off to the Fairbanks for dinner. They had a mom and her daughter over. The mom is a member, but the daughter is not. This was my first time trying Curry. It was good. Then we talked about the Holy Ghost, and the importance of it in our lives. 

Well guys, there you have it. The crazy exciting week of Elder Griffin

Love you guys

-Elder Griffin 

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