Hello from Mt Gambier!
I can’t beleive I only have 7 days left as a teenager. I always enjoyed when I told people that I was only 19 years old. Supposedly I look years older. I think it is just the tie. But being 20 years old is still young. We are working heaps with people who should be at church more often but they are not. We are laboring and showing love to these people. We had six less actives committed to come to church this week. But then satan and the spirit of contention worked threw this particular member of the church and pushed these less actives away and they didnt keep their committment. Quite frustrating since this confrontation happened just on the Saturday before church. We are here to serve the people here in Mt Gambier, all they need to do is love. Sad to report but after a weeks worth of tracting we didnt find anyone of real potential. I think part of my repentance process is that i will start to testify at every doorstep. That gives them the clear opportunity to either accept or deny the church, i will ask a committment to learn more. I am sick of hearing, “sorry guys but i am busy at the moment” when i have tried the casual approach and made small conversation with them, it is no good. I gave a talk in church this Sunday. It was on Forgivness, i tied in the Atonement and how Jesus Christ forgave all of our sins, i told of the parable of the unmerciful servant found in the bible. The Lord in the parable forgave this unmerciful servant so much of his dept but the unmerciful servant couldnt forgive a man on just a tiny bit of a dept he owed to him. The end story is we must forgive everyone no matter what, because Jesus suffered all so he could forgive all. Except blashepmy against the holy spirit, but that is seperate and doesnt apply right now. That unmerciful servant was presented to the lord after what he had done and was thrown into prison. My companion Elder Williams is a Maori and has been out 19 months. We were in the same district in my short time in Modbury Ward. The Bishop here in Mt Gambier was baptized 8 years ago and is a good man. His wife has M.S.
Mt Gambier is the most southern area in the mission. It is cold, wet and grey. But the scenery here is beautiful, very green compared to Murray Bridge. We will continue to work. Love you heaps
-Elder Montgomery
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
"This area needs divine intervention. Not Elder Montgomery intervention."
April 11, 2010
Hello from Mt Gambier!
We definitely cannot vacation here. As of now our teaching pool is very slim. The only real investigators live 100 kilometres away in Naracorte. I haven't met them yet. They are a New Zealander family. We have been working heaps with less actives. Many of these people should be active but silly reasons keep them away from church. I found out my purpose of coming here about two days in. I am to be a bandaid for this area. The missionary who i replaced was very bold and pushy and did more damage than good. There are two recent convert families that are less active who we are working closely with. We are going to watch a movie about Joseph Smith with them, have a movie night. I think because missionaries have been here for like 40 years working with the same members that less active members are very comfortable with us. Missionaries are their best friends, they love us but don't necessarily want to come to church. We have to really balance being bold and loving, it seems they have had too much of either extreme. This area needs divine intervention. Not Elder Montgomery intervention. I pray we can be effective instruments of god. We did a bit of tracting but we haven't had success yet. But we will continue to recycle threw people looking for the one person who is prepared to accept the church. We are also teaching the members to build up their faith to invite people to learn more about the church. About 60 people attend church every week, pretty small ward. It is pretty sweet being in the same district as Murray Bridge, i can keep track of my friends there. They got two more baptism dates this week it is now at 9 baptism dates in that area. God’s hand is definitely in that area. I can name 19 names of good potential people that should be baptized within the year. We will get the ball rolling in Mt Gambier it will just take heaps of diligence and faith. This area will make me grow as a missionary for sure.
It is good to hear about Preston! I was wondering when he was going on a mission. In one year it will be Jarom =0 I will be excited to hear where Jarom goes. Preston and Ryan Price are serving very near each other. We had Conference this Sunday it was sweet as. I really enjoyed it. Thank you for emailing me. Love you heaps.
-Elder Montgomery
Hello from Mt Gambier!
We definitely cannot vacation here. As of now our teaching pool is very slim. The only real investigators live 100 kilometres away in Naracorte. I haven't met them yet. They are a New Zealander family. We have been working heaps with less actives. Many of these people should be active but silly reasons keep them away from church. I found out my purpose of coming here about two days in. I am to be a bandaid for this area. The missionary who i replaced was very bold and pushy and did more damage than good. There are two recent convert families that are less active who we are working closely with. We are going to watch a movie about Joseph Smith with them, have a movie night. I think because missionaries have been here for like 40 years working with the same members that less active members are very comfortable with us. Missionaries are their best friends, they love us but don't necessarily want to come to church. We have to really balance being bold and loving, it seems they have had too much of either extreme. This area needs divine intervention. Not Elder Montgomery intervention. I pray we can be effective instruments of god. We did a bit of tracting but we haven't had success yet. But we will continue to recycle threw people looking for the one person who is prepared to accept the church. We are also teaching the members to build up their faith to invite people to learn more about the church. About 60 people attend church every week, pretty small ward. It is pretty sweet being in the same district as Murray Bridge, i can keep track of my friends there. They got two more baptism dates this week it is now at 9 baptism dates in that area. God’s hand is definitely in that area. I can name 19 names of good potential people that should be baptized within the year. We will get the ball rolling in Mt Gambier it will just take heaps of diligence and faith. This area will make me grow as a missionary for sure.
It is good to hear about Preston! I was wondering when he was going on a mission. In one year it will be Jarom =0 I will be excited to hear where Jarom goes. Preston and Ryan Price are serving very near each other. We had Conference this Sunday it was sweet as. I really enjoyed it. Thank you for emailing me. Love you heaps.
-Elder Montgomery
Transferred to Mt. Gambier
April 5, 2010
Hello from Mt Gambier!
I have been transfered from Murray Bridge! I served 6 months in that area. It felt like i was leaving home again. I was sad to go, i have fallen in love with the people. There are 7 baptism dates in Murray Bridge at this time with Michael, Lee, Kyrstal, Lily, June, Kirtly Milera, Patrick Hill. There are other people who i know who will be baptised in the future. I was so attached to Murray Bridge, it will have a special place in my heart. I would never want to live in Murray Bridge itself, maybe on the outskirts in the country areas. Great place as a missionary. I am now in the most southern area in the mission. We are 4 hours from the nearest Missionaries in the mission which happen to be the Murray Bridge missionaries. We are a bit isolated. My companion's name is Elder Williams, he is from New Zealand but lives in Brisbane, Queensland. He has been out 19 months and has been in Mt Gambier for just one transfer so far. Mt Gambier is a beautiful place, lots of scenery attractions. Mt Gambier is a ward but it is the size of a medium branch. People have just moved away over the years. There is about 60 people regularly attending. We are going to work with less active members and use those networks of people they are associated with to find people to teach and baptize. I think that will be the most effective way of finding people in this area. Alot of this town is new developments, we have the nicest flat in the mission. I am grateful to be a missionary for our Lord Jesus Christ that i have the opportunity to give just two years full time in proclaiming the good news that he has brung to the whole world. I know this work is prepatory to the 2nd coming of our master. That the kingdom of god is once again established on this earth and it is growing fast. I know my God is a God of order and that he is not the author of confusion. He is a living God and this is a Living Church. Jesus Christ is the head of this church and he leads this church by Revelation. Revelation is nothing new in the eyes of god. For he has revealed his will throughout history of time, for God is the same yesterday today and forever. I know that if we follow the living prophet we will never be led astray. He will direct us how to have true happiness and blessings in this life and even greater blessings and happiness in the next life to come. Even everlasting life with our God in the eternities. How grateful i am for the reasurring Comforter that i feel daily that allows me to know that this church is true. I invite everyone to search, ponder and pray about what this church stands for. That they may know for themselves threw the power of the Holy Ghost what is truth. The Restoration of the gospel is a beautiful thing. I wish for everyone i am acquainted with to know what i know. To feel what i feel. To enjoy what i enjoy.
-Elder Montgomery
Hello from Mt Gambier!
I have been transfered from Murray Bridge! I served 6 months in that area. It felt like i was leaving home again. I was sad to go, i have fallen in love with the people. There are 7 baptism dates in Murray Bridge at this time with Michael, Lee, Kyrstal, Lily, June, Kirtly Milera, Patrick Hill. There are other people who i know who will be baptised in the future. I was so attached to Murray Bridge, it will have a special place in my heart. I would never want to live in Murray Bridge itself, maybe on the outskirts in the country areas. Great place as a missionary. I am now in the most southern area in the mission. We are 4 hours from the nearest Missionaries in the mission which happen to be the Murray Bridge missionaries. We are a bit isolated. My companion's name is Elder Williams, he is from New Zealand but lives in Brisbane, Queensland. He has been out 19 months and has been in Mt Gambier for just one transfer so far. Mt Gambier is a beautiful place, lots of scenery attractions. Mt Gambier is a ward but it is the size of a medium branch. People have just moved away over the years. There is about 60 people regularly attending. We are going to work with less active members and use those networks of people they are associated with to find people to teach and baptize. I think that will be the most effective way of finding people in this area. Alot of this town is new developments, we have the nicest flat in the mission. I am grateful to be a missionary for our Lord Jesus Christ that i have the opportunity to give just two years full time in proclaiming the good news that he has brung to the whole world. I know this work is prepatory to the 2nd coming of our master. That the kingdom of god is once again established on this earth and it is growing fast. I know my God is a God of order and that he is not the author of confusion. He is a living God and this is a Living Church. Jesus Christ is the head of this church and he leads this church by Revelation. Revelation is nothing new in the eyes of god. For he has revealed his will throughout history of time, for God is the same yesterday today and forever. I know that if we follow the living prophet we will never be led astray. He will direct us how to have true happiness and blessings in this life and even greater blessings and happiness in the next life to come. Even everlasting life with our God in the eternities. How grateful i am for the reasurring Comforter that i feel daily that allows me to know that this church is true. I invite everyone to search, ponder and pray about what this church stands for. That they may know for themselves threw the power of the Holy Ghost what is truth. The Restoration of the gospel is a beautiful thing. I wish for everyone i am acquainted with to know what i know. To feel what i feel. To enjoy what i enjoy.
-Elder Montgomery
"...trying to find that individual or family that is prepared to hear the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and accept it."
March 28, 2010
Hello from Murray Bridge!
This has been a good week. We had 5 people come to church today. Michael and Lee couldn’t make it to church though because as it is getting close to their wedding this coming Wednesday they have heaps of family over. Pretty dodgy family as well. We got a less active sister who came to church the first time this millennium with her Partner. Their names are Karmel and TK. Karmel is Rosetta’s daughter. TK has never been to a church in him life, we taught him the Plan of Salvation and he was just about crying. There is a great chance he will be sentenced on the 6th of April and get locked up. He persuaded Karmel to wake up and keep their commitment to go to church. He sincerely wants a change in his life. Perhaps going to prison will humble him even more. We also got 3 other children of Rossetta’s to church. We got (10)Josh, (12)Kenan and (16) kirtly to church. Kurtly wants to get baptized in April. He is a good kid just needs that direction. We taught him the restoration this week along with his mother together and they both cried during the lesson. We are working heaps with this family and there is heaps of potential. He had a court hearing this last Friday. Kurtly stole $15,000 worth of jewellery. But fortunately he will not be locked up. Kurtly has changed ever since his head injury; he doesn’t need to go threw that punishment he wants to end his past lifestyle.
Patrick Hill was in Adelaide all week so we haven’t taught him anything or really got a hold of him since he committed to be baptized. We have a set appointment with him on Wednesday and we will get him back on board and closer to coming unto Christ.
Lily and June should be back anytime now. I fear I might get transferred next week and Miss Lily and June and never see them again. I hope I stay in Murray Bridge. This has been my favourite area. Next week I will have been in Murray Bridge 6 months. I want to stay longer.
We are working heaps with the Aboriginal network. Just recycling threw trying to find that individual or family that is prepared to hear the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and accept it. This will be a crazy week with the wedding and the baptism of Michael and Lee, it will be very eventful.
Have to go now love ya heaps
-Elder Montogmery
Hello from Murray Bridge!
This has been a good week. We had 5 people come to church today. Michael and Lee couldn’t make it to church though because as it is getting close to their wedding this coming Wednesday they have heaps of family over. Pretty dodgy family as well. We got a less active sister who came to church the first time this millennium with her Partner. Their names are Karmel and TK. Karmel is Rosetta’s daughter. TK has never been to a church in him life, we taught him the Plan of Salvation and he was just about crying. There is a great chance he will be sentenced on the 6th of April and get locked up. He persuaded Karmel to wake up and keep their commitment to go to church. He sincerely wants a change in his life. Perhaps going to prison will humble him even more. We also got 3 other children of Rossetta’s to church. We got (10)Josh, (12)Kenan and (16) kirtly to church. Kurtly wants to get baptized in April. He is a good kid just needs that direction. We taught him the restoration this week along with his mother together and they both cried during the lesson. We are working heaps with this family and there is heaps of potential. He had a court hearing this last Friday. Kurtly stole $15,000 worth of jewellery. But fortunately he will not be locked up. Kurtly has changed ever since his head injury; he doesn’t need to go threw that punishment he wants to end his past lifestyle.
Patrick Hill was in Adelaide all week so we haven’t taught him anything or really got a hold of him since he committed to be baptized. We have a set appointment with him on Wednesday and we will get him back on board and closer to coming unto Christ.
Lily and June should be back anytime now. I fear I might get transferred next week and Miss Lily and June and never see them again. I hope I stay in Murray Bridge. This has been my favourite area. Next week I will have been in Murray Bridge 6 months. I want to stay longer.
We are working heaps with the Aboriginal network. Just recycling threw trying to find that individual or family that is prepared to hear the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and accept it. This will be a crazy week with the wedding and the baptism of Michael and Lee, it will be very eventful.
Have to go now love ya heaps
-Elder Montogmery
Sunday, March 21, 2010
"We help people with change...I pray we can help them."
March 22, 2010
Hello from Murray Bridge!
Michael has givien up smoking, Lee and Mike will start paying their tithing this coming sunday. They are set to get married on the 31st of March. Me and Taufa will be the witnesses. Then on Sunday the 4th of April they will be baptized. I will perform the ordinance for Lee. Taufa will baptize little Kyrstal and a member will baptize Mike. In the baptism services i do not like to participate much, i would prefer if the members did everything but it is their decision. They came to church, they are much more comfortable at church now. Lee went to a releif society activity this week. The little girls love learning about Jesus. Before Mike finnally quit smoking i told the girls whenever they see their father smoking to tell him to repent. It was really cute. We got a less active aboriginal sister to church named Rosetta and one of her 4 unbaptized children named Josh also to come to church. She loved it and said she will be back next week. The lesson in class was off the lesson in the gospel principles book "work and family responsibility" i think that is exactly what she needed to learn about. The work ethic of Aboriginals is not the greatest. We are working closesly with her family. Her 14 year old son named Mali will be sentenced this week for stealing $15,000 worth of jewlery. Kirtly the 16 year old has good potential hopefully he doesn't get sentenced as well. But Kirtly was given 3 months to show he has changed, he is a really nice kid he just needs direction. We help people with change. Kenan the 12 year old is a lost kid. Just the other night i know he went out and jumped a fence and stole some alcohol. We are literally saving them before they all screw up their lives. I pray we can help them.
We got another baptism committment out of a man who was a media referel named Patrick Hill. He ordered the Dvd, Lamb of God. The church is doing a big Easter holiday media push and it is working. We taught him the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. He has Pentecostal background but is searching for the truth, he has found it with us. We are still continueing to work with the Aboriginal network.
Hello from Murray Bridge!
Michael has givien up smoking, Lee and Mike will start paying their tithing this coming sunday. They are set to get married on the 31st of March. Me and Taufa will be the witnesses. Then on Sunday the 4th of April they will be baptized. I will perform the ordinance for Lee. Taufa will baptize little Kyrstal and a member will baptize Mike. In the baptism services i do not like to participate much, i would prefer if the members did everything but it is their decision. They came to church, they are much more comfortable at church now. Lee went to a releif society activity this week. The little girls love learning about Jesus. Before Mike finnally quit smoking i told the girls whenever they see their father smoking to tell him to repent. It was really cute. We got a less active aboriginal sister to church named Rosetta and one of her 4 unbaptized children named Josh also to come to church. She loved it and said she will be back next week. The lesson in class was off the lesson in the gospel principles book "work and family responsibility" i think that is exactly what she needed to learn about. The work ethic of Aboriginals is not the greatest. We are working closesly with her family. Her 14 year old son named Mali will be sentenced this week for stealing $15,000 worth of jewlery. Kirtly the 16 year old has good potential hopefully he doesn't get sentenced as well. But Kirtly was given 3 months to show he has changed, he is a really nice kid he just needs direction. We help people with change. Kenan the 12 year old is a lost kid. Just the other night i know he went out and jumped a fence and stole some alcohol. We are literally saving them before they all screw up their lives. I pray we can help them.
We got another baptism committment out of a man who was a media referel named Patrick Hill. He ordered the Dvd, Lamb of God. The church is doing a big Easter holiday media push and it is working. We taught him the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. He has Pentecostal background but is searching for the truth, he has found it with us. We are still continueing to work with the Aboriginal network.
Monday, March 15, 2010
"...someone pulled out a mailbox and whacked him across the head with it."
March 15, 2010
Hello from Murray Bridge!
Things are going well here. We had a Sudanese man named Robert come to church on Sunday. He use to come to church heaps in 2003 but since he moved to Murray Bridge he had been looking for the church. He says he joined the church but he wasn’t baptized. I think he just enjoyed the church and considered himself joined with the church. We haven’t taught him anything yet but we will begin this week. Michael and Lee went to Mt Barker for the weekend. We are going to go fishing with them today. Sometimes Michael likes to fish for ducks, just luring them in with pieces of bread and then he hooks them with his rod. The weather is perfect here. Summer is ending and it is going to get quite cool soon. We eat the ducks off the river, and you might see a video of something getting its head cut off. We are teaching Krystal and preparing her for baptism as well. She just turned eight 2 days ago. She will be interviewed for baptism next week.
We began teaching this Aboriginal family. They were hard to catch. This less active sister felt the spirit ten years ago when she was baptized. But once she moved to Murray Bridge and became displaced with the church she felt her spirituality was stagment, and now since we have been over she feels what she felt 10 years ago. We taught some of her kids. Mainly her 16 year old son named kurtly. He has lived a rough life so far. He has been apart of gang related activities but he has been recently humbled a few months ago when someone pulled out a mailbox and whacked him across the head with it. That would settle anyone down I think. As we were teaching him the Plan of Salvation he felt something he hadn’t felt much ever in his life. He felt the spirit, he felt love. We started to dig at him to find his needs and concerns, asking soul searching questions. He began to become emotional, he couldn’t explain what he was feeling and he began to cry. We will continue to work with him. Hopefully he will progress in the gospel and turn his life around for the better. Rosetta and her family should have been at church yesterday but she slept in. So that’s just part of the roller coaster of Missionary work but we will visit them and get them rolling forwards. Rosetta’s husband Joe is going on a two week holiday to Perth to go to his Aunt’s funeral. Which is excellent, there is little spirit in him except for the spirit of contention. He is racist towards everything that is progressive like laws, order and authority. Also he passionately hates the police, white Australians and the Catholic Church. I will admit he is pretty funny though.
Also we are teaching another guy named Chris, he is a 21 year old aussie bloke. He sincerely wants a change in his life. Last week he became a father, he wants to give up his drug addiction. He wanted to come to church this week but the misses just had the baby and wanted to rest, that is understandable.
Also last night me and Elder Taufa were walking along the River just ending the night. We approached these three Aboriginal women. I felt prompted to ask them if they had family that were members of this church. I have never before asked that question to someone we just contacted. They said to my surprise, yes our cousin is a member of the Church, her name was Michelle Barnes. Michelle Barnes to me disappeared out of nowhere, she too is a less active, she moved here in Murray Bridge 9 years ago, didn’t know the church existed here and fell away. We had been working with her to rekindle her fire. We found out her new address and we will make contact with this sister this week. We began to teach a little bit about our church to these 3 women. I remember asking Michelle once, what is the happiest moment in your life, she thought about it for awhile and then she said her baptism was the happiest moment in her life. It was easy to testify to these 3 women that they will find happiness they never had before unless they fully embrace the teachings of the restored gospel just as their cousin did 10 years ago. These 3 women now want to be taught and want their kids to be also taught about Jesus Christ. We are working heaps on the aboriginal network and we will begin on the Sudanese network soon. Lily and June should be back any day now and between the beginnings of April. Looking forward to when they come back. The work is progressing in Murray Bridge. Happy to hear from everyone. I love you all heaps.
-Elder Montgomery
Hello from Murray Bridge!
Things are going well here. We had a Sudanese man named Robert come to church on Sunday. He use to come to church heaps in 2003 but since he moved to Murray Bridge he had been looking for the church. He says he joined the church but he wasn’t baptized. I think he just enjoyed the church and considered himself joined with the church. We haven’t taught him anything yet but we will begin this week. Michael and Lee went to Mt Barker for the weekend. We are going to go fishing with them today. Sometimes Michael likes to fish for ducks, just luring them in with pieces of bread and then he hooks them with his rod. The weather is perfect here. Summer is ending and it is going to get quite cool soon. We eat the ducks off the river, and you might see a video of something getting its head cut off. We are teaching Krystal and preparing her for baptism as well. She just turned eight 2 days ago. She will be interviewed for baptism next week.
We began teaching this Aboriginal family. They were hard to catch. This less active sister felt the spirit ten years ago when she was baptized. But once she moved to Murray Bridge and became displaced with the church she felt her spirituality was stagment, and now since we have been over she feels what she felt 10 years ago. We taught some of her kids. Mainly her 16 year old son named kurtly. He has lived a rough life so far. He has been apart of gang related activities but he has been recently humbled a few months ago when someone pulled out a mailbox and whacked him across the head with it. That would settle anyone down I think. As we were teaching him the Plan of Salvation he felt something he hadn’t felt much ever in his life. He felt the spirit, he felt love. We started to dig at him to find his needs and concerns, asking soul searching questions. He began to become emotional, he couldn’t explain what he was feeling and he began to cry. We will continue to work with him. Hopefully he will progress in the gospel and turn his life around for the better. Rosetta and her family should have been at church yesterday but she slept in. So that’s just part of the roller coaster of Missionary work but we will visit them and get them rolling forwards. Rosetta’s husband Joe is going on a two week holiday to Perth to go to his Aunt’s funeral. Which is excellent, there is little spirit in him except for the spirit of contention. He is racist towards everything that is progressive like laws, order and authority. Also he passionately hates the police, white Australians and the Catholic Church. I will admit he is pretty funny though.
Also we are teaching another guy named Chris, he is a 21 year old aussie bloke. He sincerely wants a change in his life. Last week he became a father, he wants to give up his drug addiction. He wanted to come to church this week but the misses just had the baby and wanted to rest, that is understandable.
Also last night me and Elder Taufa were walking along the River just ending the night. We approached these three Aboriginal women. I felt prompted to ask them if they had family that were members of this church. I have never before asked that question to someone we just contacted. They said to my surprise, yes our cousin is a member of the Church, her name was Michelle Barnes. Michelle Barnes to me disappeared out of nowhere, she too is a less active, she moved here in Murray Bridge 9 years ago, didn’t know the church existed here and fell away. We had been working with her to rekindle her fire. We found out her new address and we will make contact with this sister this week. We began to teach a little bit about our church to these 3 women. I remember asking Michelle once, what is the happiest moment in your life, she thought about it for awhile and then she said her baptism was the happiest moment in her life. It was easy to testify to these 3 women that they will find happiness they never had before unless they fully embrace the teachings of the restored gospel just as their cousin did 10 years ago. These 3 women now want to be taught and want their kids to be also taught about Jesus Christ. We are working heaps on the aboriginal network and we will begin on the Sudanese network soon. Lily and June should be back any day now and between the beginnings of April. Looking forward to when they come back. The work is progressing in Murray Bridge. Happy to hear from everyone. I love you all heaps.
-Elder Montgomery
"We will continue to do the work in Murray Bridge. There is good potential here."
March 8, 2010
Hello from Murray Bridge!
The biggest news here is that Michael and Lee have passed their baptism interview. They are set to get baptized on Easter Sunday, the 4th of April. They will be married on March 31st. We are now concentrating on their 8 year old daughter Krystal. We are now teaching to her level and she will be baptized with her Parents.
Lily and June are still in China as expected. But I am not sure when they get back. We are going to focus on the Paton family, they are less active. They live out bush. They have come to church twice in a 30 day period without anyone really inviting them. Their two teenage sons are not baptized. We will have to walk on egg shells if we appear too bold and pushy we will scare them away. We will have to just love them. We will do non “threatening” visits and just leave spiritual thoughts. The spirit will work with them and soon they will be prepared to hear the discussions and come unto Christ. We will be patient and have faith for the spirit to do that.
Also we are going to focus on another less active family. Her name is Rosetta, she is aboriginal. She was baptized 10 years ago in Adelaide but then moved to Murray Bridge, when at that time there wasn’t much of a church here at all. Maybe 7 people were attending every Sunday. She did not know the church existed and so fell away. But the church does exist in Murray Bridge! With about 100 people attending each Sunday. She wants her kids to learn about Jesus Christ. Her 4 oldest kids are baptized, but the youngest 4 kids are not. She has 4 sons we will be teaching, Kirtly 16, Mali 14, Canaan 12, and Josh 10. That is a lot of potential priesthood holders. It will be the greatest blessing in their lives if we can bring standards and morals into their lives just before they start seriously messing up. It is Aboriginal Culture to go to prison, shows you are a man. We will begin teaching them this week. We tried to teach Rosetta when I first came to Murray Bridge with Elder Ashworth but then she kept dodging us. But last month her mom passed away so now she is humbled and prepared to let god into her life again. We will continue to do the work in Murray Bridge. There is good potential here.
Love ya heaps
-Elder Montgomery
Hello from Murray Bridge!
The biggest news here is that Michael and Lee have passed their baptism interview. They are set to get baptized on Easter Sunday, the 4th of April. They will be married on March 31st. We are now concentrating on their 8 year old daughter Krystal. We are now teaching to her level and she will be baptized with her Parents.
Lily and June are still in China as expected. But I am not sure when they get back. We are going to focus on the Paton family, they are less active. They live out bush. They have come to church twice in a 30 day period without anyone really inviting them. Their two teenage sons are not baptized. We will have to walk on egg shells if we appear too bold and pushy we will scare them away. We will have to just love them. We will do non “threatening” visits and just leave spiritual thoughts. The spirit will work with them and soon they will be prepared to hear the discussions and come unto Christ. We will be patient and have faith for the spirit to do that.
Also we are going to focus on another less active family. Her name is Rosetta, she is aboriginal. She was baptized 10 years ago in Adelaide but then moved to Murray Bridge, when at that time there wasn’t much of a church here at all. Maybe 7 people were attending every Sunday. She did not know the church existed and so fell away. But the church does exist in Murray Bridge! With about 100 people attending each Sunday. She wants her kids to learn about Jesus Christ. Her 4 oldest kids are baptized, but the youngest 4 kids are not. She has 4 sons we will be teaching, Kirtly 16, Mali 14, Canaan 12, and Josh 10. That is a lot of potential priesthood holders. It will be the greatest blessing in their lives if we can bring standards and morals into their lives just before they start seriously messing up. It is Aboriginal Culture to go to prison, shows you are a man. We will begin teaching them this week. We tried to teach Rosetta when I first came to Murray Bridge with Elder Ashworth but then she kept dodging us. But last month her mom passed away so now she is humbled and prepared to let god into her life again. We will continue to do the work in Murray Bridge. There is good potential here.
Love ya heaps
-Elder Montgomery
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