2709 Abbots Loop Ct.
Columbus OH 43204-4339
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:42 AM
Week one back in Columbus. What a week it was! I will let you know now that I was the one that got swindled into the bed... We looked at them a bit more closely, and it appears that the box springs are the problem. So, I will hope that I truly paid a full-tithe while I was home, so we can get these changed out!
With the business of the beds aside I want to address the miracle that happened throughout the week. Wednesday Elder Jacobson and I were driving to Spanish South's apartment to pick them up for our Zone Meeting. While making our way across Broad Street we got a call from Hermana Lucero. (She was the one that helped us with our old investigator Cynthia). Elder Jacobson answered the phone, but couldn't understand. So the phone was put onto speaker so I could drive and talk to her.
She asked us if we had anything that night, but we did. So we scheduled to go by her house Thursday, but at this point we didn't know why. She then asked us "Saben porque les llamo?" We told her that we hadn't the slightest idea as to why she was calling us. With excitement in her voice she told us that her husband wants to hear the lessons again! We were slightly shocked by this. Horacio was a cool guy. Really funny. However, whenever we'd come and share something; he'd pull a disappearing act! It was Ninja-like stealth! That aside we were willing to go teach him.
Elder Jacobson and I went crazy in our study for him. With his training program he has an extra hour of companionship study to cover more material in Preach my Gospel, and the teaching DVD's. However we took both hours of companionship study to figure out a lesson for him! What we decided: Talk to him about the three modes of revelation. Prayer, Going to Church, and Reading. We figured that he has heard all of the lessons before, but we wanted to help him understand how he can get his own answer.
We went Thursday and taught him just that. The Spirit was strong, especially as we taught him how the spirit works. By the end of the lesson he committed to baptism on the 3rd of March. What makes this interesting is that his wife truly had hoped we'd ask him to be baptized that day! The way things played out in that lesson seemed to be perfect! We've taught him the 1st lesson of the Restoration of the Church. In that lesson he was dozing off. He works 10 hour days running his own framing business. So I can see why he was tired. The icing on the cake was when he came to sacrament meeting.
Horacio has been reading. We left him Mosiah 18. The story of the Waters of Mormon. We felt that this would be a good chapter for him. We later read with him Alma 34. In preparation to the Plan of Salvation. Right now his is starting over in his reading of the Book of Mormon. What is happening right now truly is a miracle. I hope to see him baptized on the third of March. So that all of the Lucero family can receive the blessings of heaven!
With Elder Z. Ipson going home, there will only be one Ipson out in the field. I just want you to know that whenever I got one of my letters from him Elder Ramsey would ask how "Champion Ipson" is doing. Just let him know that he gained a reputation out here in the OCM.
I can feel it in me. It's February... When's the Daytona 500? There was more NASCAR influence down in the Cincy/Kentucky areas. So I feel out of the loop. Singles awareness day will be an easy one! I don't have to worry about spending money on a date :P. Thanks for the new tie! I love you all so much. Thank you Leighton for taking Quik to the Vet!
Para Siempre,
Elder (A.) Ipson
The Great Ohio Columbus Mission
With the business of the beds aside I want to address the miracle that happened throughout the week. Wednesday Elder Jacobson and I were driving to Spanish South's apartment to pick them up for our Zone Meeting. While making our way across Broad Street we got a call from Hermana Lucero. (She was the one that helped us with our old investigator Cynthia). Elder Jacobson answered the phone, but couldn't understand. So the phone was put onto speaker so I could drive and talk to her.
She asked us if we had anything that night, but we did. So we scheduled to go by her house Thursday, but at this point we didn't know why. She then asked us "Saben porque les llamo?" We told her that we hadn't the slightest idea as to why she was calling us. With excitement in her voice she told us that her husband wants to hear the lessons again! We were slightly shocked by this. Horacio was a cool guy. Really funny. However, whenever we'd come and share something; he'd pull a disappearing act! It was Ninja-like stealth! That aside we were willing to go teach him.
Elder Jacobson and I went crazy in our study for him. With his training program he has an extra hour of companionship study to cover more material in Preach my Gospel, and the teaching DVD's. However we took both hours of companionship study to figure out a lesson for him! What we decided: Talk to him about the three modes of revelation. Prayer, Going to Church, and Reading. We figured that he has heard all of the lessons before, but we wanted to help him understand how he can get his own answer.
We went Thursday and taught him just that. The Spirit was strong, especially as we taught him how the spirit works. By the end of the lesson he committed to baptism on the 3rd of March. What makes this interesting is that his wife truly had hoped we'd ask him to be baptized that day! The way things played out in that lesson seemed to be perfect! We've taught him the 1st lesson of the Restoration of the Church. In that lesson he was dozing off. He works 10 hour days running his own framing business. So I can see why he was tired. The icing on the cake was when he came to sacrament meeting.
Horacio has been reading. We left him Mosiah 18. The story of the Waters of Mormon. We felt that this would be a good chapter for him. We later read with him Alma 34. In preparation to the Plan of Salvation. Right now his is starting over in his reading of the Book of Mormon. What is happening right now truly is a miracle. I hope to see him baptized on the third of March. So that all of the Lucero family can receive the blessings of heaven!
With Elder Z. Ipson going home, there will only be one Ipson out in the field. I just want you to know that whenever I got one of my letters from him Elder Ramsey would ask how "Champion Ipson" is doing. Just let him know that he gained a reputation out here in the OCM.
I can feel it in me. It's February... When's the Daytona 500? There was more NASCAR influence down in the Cincy/Kentucky areas. So I feel out of the loop. Singles awareness day will be an easy one! I don't have to worry about spending money on a date :P. Thanks for the new tie! I love you all so much. Thank you Leighton for taking Quik to the Vet!
Para Siempre,
Elder (A.) Ipson
The Great Ohio Columbus Mission
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