 Beautiful Napa |
Elder Jake Kruitbosch is serving in the Santa Rosa California
mission. He left for the MTC on May 1, 2013, just a little over 5 weeks after
he got his mission call! The day after they arrived in the MTC, he was called
to be a Zone Leader. He left for California on May 14, 2013 and his first area
was in Arcata. He has LOVED his mission so far and he bumped into Scott and
Angela Tanner from Stone Creek ward while they were in California on a
vacation! Here's the latest letter update from his mission:
Well, its been a good week. We have been teaching those in Napa and
across the Globe. I have realized how easy it is to just teach lessons. When you
go into a new area you have fresh perspective and now how to strengthen but
after a while it's easy to just teach lessons not really thinking ultimately of
what you want to happen. During ward council, the members talked about different
things that could happen with our investigators and I was totally refreshed! I
remembered we aren't there to just teach them every week but to HELP them to
Progress towards CHRIST. We should be trying to help people gain desire and
faith and want to succeed and rely on the Gospel!
It was eye opening I don't know why but I just felt like I had gotten so
buried into the work that I forgot to look up, take a breath, and look where I'm
going.
Facebook missionary work sounds like a joke to most of you I'm sure but, I
have a testimony of it. We have been able to teach 3 SOLID lessons this last
week. On: faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost, and enduring to the end
(the Gospel). And I'm having conversations with friends! about the Gospel. It's
been like building a bridge back to my life before the mission and realizing
that it's no different than when I'm out here!
haha its been a very enlightening week. Napa is slowly but surely coming
along. Holly has a baptismal date that will be pushed back slightly and Lori
knows she needs to be baptized, so it's a coming! It's hard though also, as a
missionary there are those that push baptism on people and they get those
numbers, but most of the time they go Less Active right after. And sometimes I
just want to push people into the font haha :) but Jesus Christ will never push
us, he has always led and helped pull us but never pushed. So all I can do is
listen to people the best I can help them feel comfortable and support them in
their decisions.
I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to be out here. I have grown in
faith so much. I love God and he's there for each of us. We just have to be
willing to let him help us. I KNOW that God lives. And that he wants us all to
be happy in this life, and happiness comes from living as close as you can to
the example Jesus Christ provided for us. I love the Lord.
Love,
Elder Kruitbosch
It was a Miracle!! I got 3min exactly on our 3 min practice!!
(it's also a sign of a good day and that day we got our iPads)
Beautiful Napa
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