Tanner in Missouri: Letter #75 . . . 2 Baptisms and 2 Priesthood Blessings!

Hey fam and friends,

Tanner, Barbie and Elder Staheli at Barbie's baptism!

This week was awesome! Barbie and Ryan were baptized on Saturday!! It was an amazing day. Barbie has such amazing faith. Her family is not supporting her joining the church, (her husband and children) yet she is moving forward in her decision because she knows that she's felt so many confirmations that this is where she needs to be, and that this truly is the true church on earth. She's your age mom and dad. I played and sang "Be Still My Soul" at Barbie's and played "Come Thou Fount" at Ryan's. I confirmed her the following day during Sacrament. It was a pretty special day. Ya' ll gotta meet her one day when she comes to visit Utah!

We were able to see some pretty amazing manifestations of the power of the priesthood this week. The first had to do with Brother Kelley, the less active member who we gave a blessing to a few weeks ago. He asked for a blessing because he was afraid he was going to lose his fingers. His middle and ring finger had been turning black and basically decaying on his hand over the previous six weeks, he was in a lot of pain, and it just kept hurting worse and worse. He'd been doing tons of tests with the doctors and they had no idea what was going on. In the blessing a few weeks ago, I promised him that his fingers would be restored to full health if he had faith, and that he would not lose his fingers. He showed up to our Bible study class we teach, by surprise and told us, "You know how you said in the blessing that I could be healed if I had faith, well I want you to know that I did
have faith in that." He showed us his hand and it was back to normal.
It was pretty amazing to see. He said the pain stopped the day after
the blessing and it went back to normal in a few days. I had never
seen anything like that. The priesthood is REAL!!

It was also Ryan's baptism day . . July 22, 2017

The other cool priesthood moment we saw was when we visited Bob Gordon and his family this week. They were excited to share that the doctors had just recently been giving him nothing but good news about his cancer in his past few checkups. He said the tumor that he had in his esophagus had shrunk by 50%, and that it has stopped spreading. They said they believe it was because of the blessing we gave him about a month ago. Just like with Brother Kelley, in the blessing I again felt prompted to tell him he will be restored to full health if it be the Lord's will, if he has faith.

I truly believe that often God takes situations and trials like these,
and uses it as a way to truly show his power to them and bless them
with the blessings he so badly wants to give us. All we have to do is
turn to him and trust him. In these two cases, I feel like he's using
it as a way to get them on the path to accept his gospel. So sweet. :)

Baptism day for Barbie and Ryan

Well Elder Staheli leaves this week! I'm sure I'm staying here for at least another transfer or two. All is well here in Mizzeruh!

Much love,

- Tan

PS. Tanner sent a video of him and Elder Staheli burning one of Elder S's shirts since he is going home this week. "Boys will be boys!" :) Click on the following link to watch the 2.5 minute video . . .
Watch the pyromaniacs here!