Beautiful Day in Provo, Utah

Today was an awesome and glorious day in the city of Provo, Utah. Randy sweet and I went to BYU to evangelize to members of the LDS church. All praise goes to the LORD for the opportunity to share His truth and boy did we ever. We were first driving through Center Street in Provo and Randy spotted three missionaries standing on a street corner. I've never seen him so excited before in my life. He pulled the car over at his first convenience and we got out to pursue the missionaries. We got into a great conversation about the grace of God until it was cut short by their ride coming to pick them up. We had the opportunity, by the grace of god, to share the glorious good news of the gospel which is the grace and mercy of God extended to unrighteous sinners. After that conversation ended we got back into Randy's car and drove to BYU. We headed straight for the BYU food court because that is our favorite place to get into great conversations. We decided to take the straight forward approach. We walked up to two guys in the food court that were eating lunch and let them know that we were Protestant Evangelical Christians from Sandy who wanted to get into friendly discussion about the LDS church and what it teaches. They willingly accepted the offer and that initiated a good two hour conversation. Once again Randy and I had the merciful opportunity to share the truth of the gospel and the fact that we are justified by faith alone apart from any works done on our own. It was such a blessed day and we had great conversations that were not contentious at all but progressive in not setting aside the grace of God that is only found in Christ. Randy and I were graciously allowed by our LORD to put some mud in their eyes and we're hopeful that He will do the washing and regenerating which will enable them to see the unfathomable riches of His mercy and kindness. His patience is designed to lead us to repentance and my prayer is that God will continue to be patient for their sakes and continue to draw them to Himself. If you could, pray for the guys that we talked to today that the LORD would grant them repentance and that they would receive assurance of salvation that is eternally secured through the blood of the lamb that was slain for the sins of the whole world. Their names are Rick, Donnie, Elder Tueller, Elder McClurg, and Elder Barrera. My heart aches for them because it is going to be hard to enjoy being in the presence of the LORD for eternity without them. PLEASE PRAY.

A Much Needed Update on Life

Life is interesting right now in the beautiful state of Utah. It is cold and beginning to snow like crazy. I have a full time job now working with Allied Barton Security Services at Fashion Place mall in Murray, Utah. God has put me right where He wants me. I work with a bunch of guys who need hope and true love in their lives. We all know that this can only be found in Christ. It can be discouraging sometimes going to work because I don't have any type of fellowship, but this motivates me even more and more and I get excited about going to work. I just pray that God will continue to draw my co-workers to Himself and they will see His light shining through me. He makes all things new and I am hopeful that I can see new creation birthed right in my work environment. Other than work, I've just been staying in the Word and seeking out opportunities that God gives me to share His truth with people who crave it but don't know that they crave it. I'm so excited about where God has me in life right now. Life is not easy and I really don't have any solid fellowship with any Lord loving guys out here. It has been a time where my reliance has to be solely placed in Christ and He continues to love me so much and teach me a lot of things along the way. Cydney and I are still going strong. I'm just continuing to serve her and love her as Christ loved us so much that He gave Himself up for us so that He might bring us to Himself. It's been a journey, but God's been showing me that I need to die to myself and serve her graciously and lovingly. I can be a leader in my service to her. She is me in a sense. Her struggles, desires, sorrows, hurts, wants, needs, etc., become my own and I love being there for her through it all and loving her with Christ's love the entire way through. Also, I've realized that my love needs to aim at her sanctification. If I'm to love her as Christ does then I need to be most concerned with her progression towards holiness. I am hopeful that at His coming she will be presented to the Lord as holy, blameless, and upright. I am confident that He who began the work in her will perfect it at the day of Christ Jesus. I wouldn't trade where I'm at in life right now for anything.

I live in Sandy, Utah now instead of Salt lake. I am living with a family that Cydney and I go to church with at Lifeline Community Church. I can't wait until Loren and Carrie get out here so we can start going to church together. Keep the Llanos family, the Carpenter family, the Orrin Family, the Peterson family, the Stott family, and the soon to be Morales family in your prayers because I would love for them to be out here as soon as possible too so that we can get started on building the Lord's kingdom soul by soul and that we would worship our God and Savior together in unity of the spirit. I love my family and I long to see them again in the near future, but until then, God continues to supply me with unexplainable grace and mercy that is found in His son. I wish that I could keep in touch with everyone, and I do try my hardest, but if anyone has a desire to call me up and chat sometime, feel free to call me at 559-999-4125. I would love to chat and pray, and catch up on life.

I won't be coming home for thanksgiving, christmas, or new year's this year so I will definitely be home sick. I love you mom (you too dad). I can't believe that God has blessed me so with a mother like you. You are living proof of God's grace being shown in my life. Thank you for everything that you do. I really appreciate you.

This is kind of random, but Real Salt lake, Utah's major league soccer team, won the MLS cup. This is the first major league professional championship in Utah state history. AWESOME :-)