September 28, 2010

Hey what up my family,

Oh boy.. so much to write, it can almost be a daunting task to write all the miracles down that I'm seeing it just really is too hard. Well here it goes first off i'll give you an update for Threasa and Wanda who both have baptismal dates. Threasa will be baptized on October the 9th, right now her biggest concern is that her husband is not on board and gives her a hard time about all of this. However this week we were able to give her a blessing and she said that he was going to come to her baptism. We are seriously praying that he can have a change of heart and desire to support her, and eventually we would love to start teaching him as well. We feel that he's really just being bombarded with all of this junk from people outside of the church and he's probably got a lot of questions. She went to the relief society conference and had a wonderful time. She just thought Thomas S. Monson was so funny and took so many notes she's really learning a lot and really inspires me to learn more too. Wanda is also doing great, we taught her last night at the Marsh's, one of the members in our ward. We had a great time eating dinner with her and then watching the restoration dvd. She really felt the spirit, and she knows what she's doing is right. She also has children who are not to excited about what she's doing, and that seem to be giving her a hard time about it.

Well as for one of the other miracles of the week, we were teaching Christine Vernon and Violet this week and they really loved it, especially Vernon. We are so excited to invite him and Violet to be baptized, they also brought his sister to churh with them this week and plan on bringing their Brother too. We are just recieving more and more referrals, and the lord is leading us to the elect. It's tons of fun.

Last miracle that I'm going to write about has brought a lot of happiness in my life. We've been visiting this part member family for a while now and been eating dinner in their home and really building a relationship with them. He's been coming to church for a very long time now and has had many missionaries try. Well, this week we were over for dinner, and my companion and I had a very strong goood feeling about him. That morming I said a prayer that his heart would change. Well, after the dinner and when we were walking out to the car, he stopped and asked about the lessons and said he's about ready to take them and he'd let us know.

This is the work of the lord, and he really just continues to work miracles as we ask for them, so I would ask all of you to pray for miracles in your life this week.

Love Elder Judd

September 20, 2010

Dear Family,

What a week so many blessings have just come out of no where. I know for sure this is the lords work and all i can do is qualify to be a tool in his hands to say what he would have me say. Go where he would have me go, and act as he would have me act. On Thursday I prayed for all of my investigators and asked the lord when he wanted them to be baptized. Well on Friday we had a temple tour with Christine Vernon Violet, and Theresa. Christine, to our dismay was a little drunk so the spirit didn't really have a chance to touch her heart that night but her husband Vernon did become a little more interested. At the end he was firing questions to Elder Jensen about the temple and wondering why he couldn't go all the way in. Well Also at the same time I was off with Thereasa talking to her. I shared Mosiah 18 with her to help her realize that she is prepared for baptism. She was touched by the spirit and began to tell me how i could read her like a book. Well after that we talked about why her baptism date was so far back and she said she was really worried about her husband because he's really not supportive right now. Well after listening to her concerns she started talking to me about how she knows she is ready. So I opened my planner and showed her what date I had written down. Well I have to let you know that i was thinking of two different dates oct. 9th and the 16th so I had wrote both of them down. Well while i was praying thursday night I felt like the 16th would give her a little extra time to prepare so I circled it. Then i asked her to pray about that date that I had shown her when she sarted to cry a little. She then asked me did you have oct 9th written down. I opened up my planner and said yes, she said I've dreamed about that date I know that's the date that i'm supposed to be baptized. I was just in awe, that was the lord completely i'm just very glad I was intune enough to talk to her about it.

Well if you think that that's enough you really don't understand the tender mercies of god. Because this week we had Wanda, a former investigator, text us and tell us she wanted to be baptized on oct 25th. She wanted to know what she needed to do. She works with a lot of Mormons and they have been helping her and teaching her and she is now ready. I know this is the lords work and it will continue on the lord has been so merciful to the Cocoa area and many souls are coming unto him. I would ask that yall would pray for Thereasa and Wanda's families that they will soften their hearts and not cause so much grief for them.

Thanks love Elder Judd

September 13, 2010

Hello family,

Well another week has come and gone and we are doing great, we really have been blessed here in Cocoa and we appreciate all of your prayers on our behalf. This week was great because we had six investigators come to church it was really neat. Oh by the way just so yall know Thereasa picked a date to be baptized on it's a ways away for November seventh but that's her birthday and she's really excited about it. She has been off smoking for a week now and alcohol we are so blessed to be able to work with her. Another great thing is that she absolutely enjoyed church and everyone came up to her and said hi and talked with her making her feel extremely welcome. She was a little worried about the tatoos on her neck and what some people might think of her but she found as she went to church that she was accepted for who she really is a child of god.

We also had Christine Vernon and Violet all come to church. Christine is doing great she's been off smoking and drinking for about a week and a half, we still have to talk to her about getting off of methodone so please pray that that will go well this friday after our temple tour with her. They are really doing great and we are looking forward to helping them make it into the waters of baptism. Cool thing is that next week they are going to bring his brother and sister to church with them so hopefully we will start teaching them to we are extremely excited about it all.

Finally we had Roxanne Smith come to church for the second time and she brought her daughter who we never knew she had. Well while we were talking to her we found out that her daughter is eight years old yeah. I almost choked on my lemonade when i heard that. We took her to a yound single adults fireside on sunday where Richard G. Scott talked about eternal marriage and she was just nodding her head the whole time she really enjoyed it.

Well that's all for now but we are exteremly excited right now and this Friday we are taking them all on a temple tour so it should be a very spiritual moment for them all.

Love Elder Judd

September 7, 2010

Dear family,

Sorry for the week i missed i was really to busy to even get to email, we decided that we were going to go to the space center i promise i'll send some pics next week. Well as for these last couple of weeks we really have been blessed and the people we are working with are making some huge steps. Christine has started on her journey of quitting smoking and drinking she has beeen off drinking for a week now which is great and she's still working on cigerettes. She's got a hold of a couple of butts and has been smoking them i really just shows how addicting they really are satan uses them a huge tool to degrade people and their self worth.

Well the other week we recieved a member referral on sunday and we stopped by two days later and found Therease ready adn prepared for the gospel we left her with a copy of the book of mormon and told her to read and pray. Well we stopped by two days later adn she read through all of the book of mormon the first night she had it. She said she really just couldn't put it down, she's been telling us how she feels her cup is now full. I know the lord is preparing people to recieve the message. And even with those you share the gospel with if they are not ready at least help them prepare for the second coming as the scriptures exhort us to do. Invite them to keep the commandments and read the scriptures they will really bless your life for it. I know this church is true i know god lives and speaks to us he really does answer prayers seek learning by faith.

love Always

Elder Judd