Hey hey everyone I hope you all had a great Christmas! I was
so happy to be able to see and talk with my family and see how they were all
doing, I love those guys so much! Ok so excuse the bad grammar in this email it
will probably be bda, it is like 100 degrees out side and my fingers are wet
with sweat woo hoooo!
Ok so lets start with the people. Last week my companion and
I had a ton of succcess in getting out and finding some new people to teach.
One of our new people is a family with the dad is a lessa active member and the
mom is not a member of the church. They are pretty deep down into drogas, but
they want to change and get out so we are going by to help them out and to see
that the light of Christ reaches down even to the deepest of the hole they are
into. However the crazy thing is, I actually taught these people before. In one
of my old wards, Condell, I taught the dad of this family, his name is Freddy!
I taught him for a couple of weeks right when I got to my old ward, but then he
moved and left the house where he was living with his mom and we never heard
anymore from him. But then last Wednesday we went to go to an appointment with
a man my companion had met beofre and he told me "Oh yeah his name is
Freddy and he lived in another area a few months ago and we just met him last
week". We walked in the door and it was the same guy I taught before! He
came up and gave me a hug and we talked a little bit about life and caught up,
and the whole time my companion was thinking that we were best friends, Freddy
and I. That was a cool moment lat week! We also found lsat week a kid named
Nico. He used to listen to the missionaries antes, but he decided it was not
right for him so he stopped listening about 4 months ago. We stopped by last week,
he invited us in and he told us he was ready to make changes in his life! This
week has been a week of miracles for sure!
As well here in our mission we can play soccer with the
people on the street as a way to contact them and then to began to teach them,
and we have been doing a lot of it. On Friday we had a ton of kids at the
chapel and we played a game with them out back. Yesterday we did the same
thing, and all of the members have bveen bringing their friends, so we have
been able to teach them all the Gospel, play soccer, and get a return
appointment, it is so sweet. Love soccer.
Well I am going to say the same thing that you have probably
already heard from the other 15 missionaries whose emails you get everyweek. I
know that Jesus lives, and I know he has His Gospel. Thanks to him we have what
we have, and he gives us the greatest blessing of all, the opporotunity to
lifve with Him and our families forever. He is the Reason and the Word.
Love,
Elder Tilghman
Lucas 2
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