This week has been so amazing!!!!!!! Things are just going so great and it's so fun. We got transfer calls today, and Elder Rose is leaving and i'm staying in the Boro!!!! YAAYY!! I'm super pumped because Springboro is the best area in the whole dang mission!! Everyone is great, and i'm excited to baptize these families :)
Stevan has been doing so well! He is progressing towards the 8th of March for baptism, and we also have Sam Soward on date for the 8th. Sam and his mom came to church for the first time this sunday (his mom is less active) and it was the most amazing sacrament meeting i've ever been too. They were privileged to be at this one! But we showed sam the baptismal font after church and he got to walk down inside it, and told us he wanted to be baptized. His grandpa is going to fly in from salt lake to perform the ordinance! AMAZING!!!!
But at Sacrament, Brother Layton (moved here a couple months ago from Herriman) gave the most amazing talk on God the Eternal Father. He talked about how when he was growing up he always thought of God as this almighty being that held a lightning bolt just waiting for him to mess up then zap him. But no, that is wrong he says. God is a loving, and most gracious Father. He loves us so deeply that we cannot understand. Knowing that he is a God of Love really brings me peace. The Spirit that i feel each day, and the miracles that happen, allows me to KNOW that he lives. He watches us each day, with an outstretched hand, wanting to help us up when we have fallen. The spirit was so strong when Brother Layton was speaking. There was so much peace in that Chapel, and it has changed my mission.
I invite everyone to gain that loving relationship with our Father in Heaven. He loves us so much and just wants us to ask him for help. Prayer is the way we can do that. Just talking to him, and feeling his love. He wants us to talk with him, so allow yourself to fall to your humble knees and ask him for forgiveness. We can all be made whole through the Eternal power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and it is available to everybody. :)
"And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil" 3 Nephi 27: 14
"And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil" 3 Nephi 27: 14
I have grown to love this scripture so deeply because of the love Jesus Christ has for all of us. He didn't have to do it, and he allowed his brothers and sisters to lift him up on the cross because he knew of the plan our Loving Father in Heaven has for us. Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ live, and love us. They are always there for us! :)
I love you all and i'm so thankful for the support each day!!
Godspeed
Elder Bloxham
This is stevan in his morph suit!! haha with his Jesus shirt! I will have to get a real picture of him so you can see what he looks like! |
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