Elder Tyson Dawson: Week 44 in the Field - Elder Nelson, Priesthood, Package, and the Restoration

Weekly Letter August 23, 2015

Hey guys, I hope everyone has had a great week.

Things are going really well here in the zone with Elder Jepson. This week we were able to see three miracles that were really cool. The first one happened while searching for an old investigator that we had found a record of in the area book. The name on the record said Raul Marroguin but didn't have an address or phone number. We thought, "How are we going to find this guy?" right when a young guy stepped out of a house. We asked him if he knew Raul by chance and he said "Uh yeah, that's me" and so we found him. The second miracle happened when we entered into a gated communnity and a guard introduced us to a family of ten in the community. The guard isn't even a member or anything but he introduced us to them in an area where we hardly have any contacts or investigators so that was great. The third miracle happened looking for a lady named Delmira. We found her house and knocked on the door. She answered and was surprised to see us, first off because she's an old investigator that hasn't attended church in a year and secondly because she was just thinking about attending church the following day when boom, we showed up. She came to stake conference with us and we placed a baptism for the 26th of September. Overall, we've seen a lot of blessings and miracles this week.

We were really exicted for the multi-mission conference that was going to be held on Tuesday with Russell M. Nelson but, due to security concerns involving the upcoming Guatemalan election, the conference will be hled in El Salvador and we will be viewing the broadcast.

On Sunday, I was able to give the Melchizedek Priesthood to Ronny Mendez whom I helped reactivate. He is 18 and planning on serving a mission. It's amazing how the spirit is felt during priesthood blessings and I felt a tiny bit of what a father must feel watching his son take a huge step forward, the son becoming a little bit more like the father himself.

This week I'd like to share a few quotes and thoughts about the Restoration of the gospel. Bruce R. McConkie taught about the restoration in the following way:

"Once or twice in a thousand years a new door is opened through which all men must enter if they are to gain peace in this life and be inheritors of eternal life in the realms ahead. Once or twice in a score of generations a new era dawns the light from the east begins to drive the darknesss of the earth from the hearts of men. Now and then in a peaceful grove, apart from the gaze of men, heaven and earth share a moment of intimacy, and neither are ever thereafter the same. Such a moment occurred on the beautiful, clear morning in the spring of 1820 in a grove of trees near Palmyra, New York. Man asked and God answered. Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son."

Joseph Smith taught, "It is left for us to see, participate in, and help to roll forward the Latter-day glory," To help us, "the Spirit of God will be showered down from above, and it will dwell in our midst. The blessings of the Most High will rest upon our tabernacles," and we will bring to pass a "work that is destined to bring about the destruction of the powers of darkness, the renovation of the earth, the Glory of God, and the salvation of the human family."

I bear testimony of this latter-day work. The man the world knows as Joseph Smith, Junior I know as Joseph Smith the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator. The work he established is divine and his legacy shall be eternal.

I hope everyone has a great week. A couple white people showed up to our Stake Conference in Guatemala and they're from Midway, Utah (the same place as my companion.) We entrusted them with a couple of packages of souvenirs. The lady's email is annefitz25 (the typewriter obsiously doesn't have an at sign but there's an at) gmail.com. She'll bring the stuff to E' Jepson's parents.

-Elder Dawson