I shouldn't get so far behind on posting Elder Buhler's letters, sorry:
Feb 18th
Dear Family,
This week went pretty good. We tried to go see Aaron
and Felicia, the two Romanians. They always excited to see us but
lately they are either too busy for a lesson or they are about to leave.
They still want us to teach them. We are going to try to see them
tonight. They told us that Monday nights
are usually the best.
We taught Gilbert the Restoration last Monday. That went really good.
We had actually planned to teach him tonight and have dinner with him
but he cancelled because he is too sick. I'm not too worried about him
because he wants to be apart of this church. I don't know if I
mentioned that he is engaged to the Fox's daughter, a member in our
ward. We'll teach him some other time this week. Then the nine year
old, Ricky Holman, that we have been teaching is constantly
progressing. We taught him the restoration yesterday and he really
understood it. He could summarize everything we taught him. His mom,
who is a member is still not sure if he really understands the
importance of baptism quite yet. In all honesty he understands it more
that when I was baptized. I know that he is ready, I just hope his
mother doesn't prevent it from happening.
That's about it as for our investigators go. Elder Rogers and I have
been doing a lot of tracting and using the Harvesting Tool. We were
able to get into a couple of homes last week to bless their homes.
Everyone that we are able to do this for is always so great-full for us
being there. For some reason they don't really want us to come back so
that they can feel the spirit more often in their home. We focus a lot
on the restored gospel and the restored Priesthood power. How the
Priesthood power is the true divine power from God and with the
Priesthood we have the power to bind things in Heaven and on Earth, that
their families can be together forever. I then would ask them if they
would like to learn more about how their family can be together
forever. Most of the time the response is no. We will then ask why and
they will sometimes tell us that they don't care about being with their
family forever. That is hard to understand.
Well that is all I got for this week. It is about 45 degrees outside,
so the cold weather is finally here. I'm healthy and happy, and hope
that you all are the same.
Scripture of the Week.
Moroni Chapter 10.
32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves
of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness,
and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace
sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and
if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny
the power of God.
33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny
not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God,
through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of
the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy,
without spot.
Remember if we follow Christ and his teachings, repent of our sins. We have nothing to worry about on judgement day.
Have a great week.
Love Elder Kyle Buhler
Feb 24th, 2013
Dear Family,
The my days here in Fort Yargo are just getting better and better. Plus the weather has been nice here, so maybe people's attitudes have changed with the nice weather. I'll start off with some new investigators that we have found. We were out tracting and the first door we knocked on a lady named Kirsten answered the door. I bore testimony of our message and she got pretty excited. We will be teaching her tomorrow. The second door we knocked on the same thing happened with this lady named Casey. We have an appointment to see her this week. Than the third door, we offered to bless his home and he let us right in. His name is Perez Griffith. We talked to him for a minute and we found out that he had bought the building supplies for a couple of our church's out here. We blessed his home and he could feel the spirit. He told us that he had never felt that way before, kind of like a overwhelming happiness. We are teaching him and his family now. Well, long story short we got 9 new investigators this week, Amazing! As for our current investigators that you already know about. Ricky Holman the 9 year old is still progressing, and he knows a lot about the Book of Mormon and the gospel. Gilbert just recently got married to the Foxes' daughter, who his a member, and has been reading the B.O.M. He came to church yesterday. We are going to set a date for him for baptism tonight. The Romanian family have are progressing good too, especially their 19 year old daughter. Her name is Flavia. She told us that she is currently looking for a new church and that she new that we showed up at her house for reason. That we were an answer to her prayers. She was so excited that she is going to tell her friends about us and have us teach them too. Flavia came to church yesterday and she told us that she loved it. That everyone was friendly. We had our fast and testimony meeting yesterday because stake conference is next week. We will have two members of the seventy there so I'm pretty excited about that. She loved the testimonies! Aron and Felicia her parents didn't make it to church yesterday because Felicia was working and they have to do everything together. They are a great family who were prepared to be members before we got there. Every time I think about them I get excited!
Another miracle that has happened this week was we had dinner with a less active member this past Wednesday. They have two kids a 11 year old and a 10 year old who are not yet baptized. They agreed to let us teach them. The kids want to be baptized because the are the only ones in their class who are not. We have an appointment to teach them this Wednesday. So exciting!
Oh and this is not the end. The Winder Elders who are just above us were tracting in our area by accident. They found a part member family that is not on our ward roster. They recognized that they were living in sin so they are going to get married. The members husband Robert wants to get baptized and start a new life with himself, his wife and the savior.
It has been a great week!
Thank-you all for the valentines things and for writing on the HUGE Card. I love you all and talk to you next week. Got to go play some B-ball. Thanks for all that you do. Stay Strong!
Love, Elder Kyle Buhler.
March 4th, 2013
Dear Family,
This past week was a little slower. So I don't really have much to write about. But I still have some good stuff.
Last Monday after we finished e-mailing, we went to Taco Bell for lunch and we started talking to the lady at the cash register about the church and come to find out that she had actually met with missionary's before. We asked her if we could stop by and talk to her and she accepted. We well long story short, we stopped by last Wednesday and taught her the message of the restoration. She seemed to take it better than before and she accepted to be baptized by someone holding the restored Priesthood of God. We gave her a date for March 21 and she accepted. Nice! All of our other investigators have been progressing pretty good. We found another investigator this past week a 18 year old named Kirston. She is someone that I could see accepting the restored gospel. We will see what happens though. She kept on telling us that she was Lutheran, so that probably means she is afraid of change but we'll see what happens. We taught Ricky Holman the Gospel of Jesus Christ Yesterday. All that is left is the Commandments. He is an amazing 9 year old. He is reading Genesis and the Book of Mormon together. He is already on the 23rd Chapter of Genesis. I don't think he understands most of it but he is devoted.
Another family who hasn't had their children baptized is the Verdins. We are going to start teaching them tonight. We have Dinner with them than we are going to teach them the Restoration. I think that they are going to let their children get baptized this time around. It is one boy, TJ, who is 11 and Katie who is 10. They are big kids. I'm super excited for them. The Romanian Family we have been having a hard time getting in with them. Aaron, the dad, is still trying to find a job, and Felicia, the Mom, is a RN is having a hard time finding enough work. She work as a home visit nurse. Flavia, the 19 year old, is trying to work full time and doing online school. She is going to school to be a RN as well. We are working hard with them. Even though they know the Church is true, they can't find the time for us to come over. We are trying to figure something out. This past week was Zone Conference where all the Missionary's meet together from the Sugar Hill and Athens Zone. I'm in the Athens Zone by the way. We get trained on how to be better missionaries. That was good. During these conferences they randomly choose missionaries to share experiences they had. I got to share an experience that I had with the Harvesting Tool. It was a pretty awesome experience to be able to talk in front of over 60 missionaries. Yesterday was Stake conference. It was Elder Whiting of the of the 70 and Elder Marideth the the Area 70. They had some great talks. Elder Marideth talked about the final week of Christ life and the miracle of forgiveness. He talked about how Peter denied Christ 3 times before the Cock crowed. Christ told Peter he would do this and Peter didn't think it would be possible that he would do this. Then after Christ died and was resurrected he returned to some of his Apostles who were back out fishing. You might remember this from Elder Hollands talk last October. Christ asked Peter 3 times if he loved him. Those three times he said thou knowest that I love thee. Those three times were to make up for the three times that Peter denied Jesus to be the Christ. I never really thought about it that way. Even though at times we deny Jesus Christ and His teachings, he will always have his hand out toward us to bring us back in. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us more than we can even imagine. If only we would just stop and consider the things that he has done for us and follow him. We can have his promise of Eternal Life.
Then Elder Whiting had a quote that I really liked he said," It is harder to go to the temple once a month than it is to go once a week, because when we go once a week it is a commitment. When we try to go once a month it becomes an inconvenience." I know that that is true.
Also President Wolfert was there and he bore his testimony about the Abrahamic Covenant. That we are all under that covenant and from Abraham's seed. That we have the same blessings that he had. That the Israel was scattered and there were lost tribes,but the Book of Mormon was brought forth by God for the Gathering again of Israel. They got a new Stake President in the Athens Zone.
That's all I got for this week. Hope you all have a great week. Love you all and hope you all have a great and blessed week. Let me know if there is anything that I can do for you. I know I can only do so much out here. haha.Hello Everybody
