Hess Family

Emailing in the library....Elder Zhao, Elder Hess, Elder Cook

Posing with Irvine Ward Members

Hey!

So this last week has been pretty good. We had a lot of good stuff happen a lot of ok stuff happen and not really a whole lot of bad happened ha.

So. this week we moved another wards investigator into our ward so he is now our investigator! He is pretty chill his name is David.  He is probably the most hick guy you will ever meet from Texas looks like Eric Church when he puts his shades on.  You would think by looking at him he would just be chillin at home sittin back watching college football kickin back a 12 pack (which is probably true) but he actually runs his own law firm and is a genius. After the move he took about 15 missionaries to B-Dubs and payed for us all.. not cheap but he is a super cool guy! He told us he was gonna have us over for a "meeting" soon! (Texas vs. BYU) ha 

That was pretty much the exciting part of the week!

So this week I've been thinking about who the Jesus we really need to know is! So I listened to a talk by S Michael Wilcox intitled "the Jesus we need to know"

He tells the story about the women with the issue of blood, this women having this problem for 12 years as it says in Luke's account and under the Law of Moses anything she touches, sits upon or anything is becomes unclean and the cleansing process take a while! So you could imagine what this lady is going through.  She has probably lost all hope and faith! But... she hears about this great rabbi this great master named Jesus Christ and she found out that he was coming her way! Right there her faith was probably lifted a little and she gained one last glimps of hope! 

So knowing her not wanting to make anything unclean but knowing he was coming she figured if I just touch the border of his garment I can be cleansed! And she ultimately was which is amazing but the one part that I really like is the part in red. Christ wasn't harsh or condemning cause an unclean women touched him he was happy, proud of her like good job you did it now go enjoy your new life! and that is the Jesus we need to know !

Love,

        Elder Hess

Luke 8:43:48

43.  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44.  Came behind him, and touched the border of his garments: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45.  And Jesus said, Who touched me?  When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46.  And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: fo I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47.  And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
 48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.