I don't know if I told you, but we split the area to a Dayton North and a Dayton South. Elder Packer and I are in D-Town N. and the other Elders are D-Town S. But, for our area, we had 3 investigators at church, and the one that was the most amazing was Chessani. She is our neighbor at our apartment, and she is absolutely amazing!! It was her first time to church since we've been teaching her, and she did so awesome at church. She loved it and we loved having her. Then for the other Elders, a guy named Tim came. Tim has been getting taught forever. He doesn't want to pray because he thinks he should pray always, not just in times of need. So i guess he just is stubborn... But the Elders watched the Restoration video with him and he was about crying. He loved the video so much, and we think that is why he showed up to church.
Elder Packer and I had an Intervention. :) He is getting homesick and he feels like he needs to go home, and that is when i had some mean intervene time! We read scriptures, parts of our Patriarchal Blessings, and he was bawling! It was so amazing, because that moment is a deciding factor for his whole mission. He always asks me, "when does it start to get fast?" and i told him, "once you get lost in the work, that is when time disappears." He had an epiphany, which was he wasn't working hard enough. And i compared it to Laman and Nephi. When they went to get the plates from Laban, they had 2 different approaches. Laman was doing it because he had to, Nephi was doing it because he loved the lord, and was doing it for him. Yes they both went in to get the plates, but Nephi diligently went after the plates. So i told Elder Packer to be like Nephi, not Laman, and he just started bawling. He knows he needs to change his perspective, and this was the time that it hit him.
The Book of Mormon can help us in every aspect of our lives, as long as we apply them. Heavenly Father gave us the Book of Mormon for a reason, we cannot rest them. I love the Book of Mormon with all my heart and it is the heart of my testimony. That is how i know Joseph Smith is a Prophet, and that is how i know that this is the true church on the earth today. Reading from the Book of Mormon will help us in our everyday struggles and i can promise you that!!! :)
I love you guys so much and i challenge everyone everywhere to read from the Book of Mormon every single day, no matter what and you will receive greater blessings and greater joy in life!
Love,
-Elder Bloxham
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