"I have seen so many blessings that have come from having the Holy Ghost in my life."

Hi everyone!


Jamani, one of our top investigators that Elder Chandler and Elder Bolz began teaching last transfer gave up. He just wasn't committed to doing the things we asked him to do. He is having a ton of problems in his life and I don't think he sees how what we are sharing with him can help him. We had an awesome lesson about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and how he can find healing and comfort in that, but he doesn't feel he has the faith to continue. We were both very sad about that. Also, Jeff, another teenager that we are teaching is avoiding us. Jeff loved the Gospel before and he had a huge desire to be baptized. We don't know what is happening. He seems less excited now-a-days about the message we share.

We are getting work with the less active members of the church rolling. We have assigned every available active member in our area 5 or 6 names or less-active members to stop by and invite to listen to the missionary lessons again/come back to church. It is going very well. Brother Bradford, the member who took us to Shark Valley for our p-day, has already visited all of the names we gave him and he has been talking to a whole bunch of his neighbors about the gospel. He loves teaching people about Jesus Christ and inviting people to hear us. It is awesome! He has been fellowshipping his neighbor Bob Stytes very well and Bob isn't ready to sit down and here about the church yet, but he is getting into Genealogy and he went to the chili cook-off. He was pleasantly surprised. He ended up loving the activity and the people in the ward. He said that everyone was very nice. He definitely is warming up to everyone and feels like he has a place there.

We are going to go knocking doors and contacting around Brother Bradford's house because they will have immediate fellowship. Brother Bradford said he is willing to come out with us anytime when he is not working. He is such an awesome member! He also said he wants to take us out to a Seminole Native American Museum. We will also need to get permission from President for that one too. I am very excited for that.

We have the Petit-Frere family that has three kids. They love church and the Gospel, but they need permission from their mother Crystella. Crystella wants her kids to be baptized, but she is uncertain about their preparation. She wants to wait for a long time, but we believe they are ready. Just pray from the Petit-Frere family. If all goes well, we could have her permission for them to get baptized this week.

Yesterday was a very rough day. Almost every appointment we set up fell through on us. Plus we had a horrible experience at an investigator's house. Charles is a black guy who is really nice and takes us seriously, but his sister just plays around with us. She wears some of the most immodest clothes I have ever seen in my life. We didn't even go over there to teach her. We actually dropped her because she was trying to fool around and flirt with us. This last appointment she was trying to give us hugs, exposing herself, and saying a whole bunch of suggestive stuff. We are not going over to that house again. Of all the people I have met, she is one of the deepest in sin. It amazes me that you could get so far. She openly admits all of her sins as if it is a joke and her only goal in life is sex. She lives such an empty life. She said she wants to get baptized, but we refused to do it because she is not repenting at all and she is trying to seduce us. We can't go in a place where someone is trying to do that. We are going to meet with Charles in a different place away from the house so that this doesn't happen again.

We did have a good end to the day though, we saw Michael, a recent convert who got baptized the week before I got in the area. He is doing very well and he wants to go to the temple and take some of his ancestors names in. We are helping him to get the priesthood and get a temple recommend. The bishop has a goal to get all us the recent converts to the temple within the first three months of getting them baptized.

I have seen so many blessings that have come from having the Holy Ghost in my life. There are simple truths that I can understand and things that make sense to me that cannot possibly make sense to other people. Shaquita couldn't understand the type of lifestyle we live. She doesn't understand the happiness that comes from keeping God's commandments. It amazes me how little these people understand. The simple Gospel truths that make so much sense to me seem ridiculous to all these other people that do not have the constant companionship of the spirit. It reminds of the 1 Corinthians chapter 2. The things of God seem foolish without the spirit. The whole point of the mission rules, the standards we have, and the commandments of God is to be worthy to have the spirit. Because when you have the spirit, you are happy. When you receive Christ's help in your life that he has for us through his Holy Spirit, there is not a force on earth that can stop us from succeeding in this life. I have seen some powerful manifestations of the spirit as I have been here in Fort Lauderdale.

I love you all and I will talk to you all later. Write me! Bye!

Love,

Elder Seamons