7/30/12 Email from Elder Devin Dillard

I will start by telling of the miracles this week! So a  family, who the St. Cloud Sister Missionaries have been teaching were baptized on Sunday! All 6 siblings! It was such an awesome day! The sisters have been working so hard for the past 3 months with them. So happy to see all of their hard work pay off. All my companion and I ever did to help out was go over and have marshmallow fights and teach a little bit. I have yet to see so many people at one baptism as I saw yesterday. The room was PACKED! It was such a great time, and our bishop was  privileged to perform the actual baptisms. It was SO COOL!

We had 2 other baptisms in the zone this weekend as well and had a total of 10 baptisms for the month! In our Zone this hasn't been done in a long time! The faith of these missionaries has quadrupled this month! So proud of them, my companion and I are just trying to keep up, hehe. I love it.

Last night we were lucky to teach 3 lessons in just 30 minutes!  We had all our plans and back-up plans fall through for the night and had no Idea what to do. We were driving by Lake George, a small lake with a nice walking path and we saw lots of people out enjoying the beautiful evening and felt prompted to just go and walk around there. As we did we saw a man (later learned his name is Greg) fishing for bass along the shore. We sat down next to him and just talked about fishing. After a few minutes a man tapped on my shoulder and asked if he could talk to me for a minute. So I stood up to talk to him while my companion finished teaching Greg about The Restoration. This other guys name is Matt. He said he was struggling with faith. He was never raised with a religious background and really knows he needs some kind of faith because he is struggling with Prescription Drug Addictions. He can't find anything that will work. Explained a little about how Christ can help us overcome adversity, how faith works, and how we receive answers to prayers. My favorite part of the whole conversation was when I asked Matt, "Why did you walk over and talk to me?"  He said, "I was over by the restrooms and something told me to talk to you. I didn't want to. No way did I. But I found myself moving towards you guys."  It was such a moving experience as I explained a little more of how the Spirit works and that this is how the spirit works within us as well as teaches us truth. We will be meeting him here at the library in about 30 minutes today. I'm looking forward to it.  We had a couple other great conversations with people last night. I know there is a reason for why plans sometimes fail why things don't go the way we want. Its His will, not mine, and my Father in Heaven knows all things. So grateful we were able to follow the promptings to go and chat with the fishermen.

I hope you all have an amazing week! Follow the Spirit! The church is true:D


I love you,


Elder Devin Dillard