Dear Family and friends
This has been a great week of working and having fun, and simply serving.
There were some disappointments but that is all part of the work, and to
be expected. So with the conclusion of
Monday
we went had a very brief correlation meeting with our Branch Mission
leader, then we flew off to our dinner appointment. The children were crazy, and that was to be expected, and the food was good, roast beef and
mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans eating like kings. (I don't
know why but the kids ate it with ketchup) Eric sadly cancelled on us that
night, and so we had trouble trying to get with him.
Well Tuesday
we had a good day of studies, service, and work. We had to explain to a
member something he was preaching was wrong and we had to show him in
the scriptures where he was wrong, and he didn't want to believe it but I
felt the Spirit start guiding me and I was able to give him an answer
to his concern as to why the verse was written the way it was and how he
could come to understand it more fully, so that was fantastic. He
thanked us afterwords and told us he wanted us to come back OFTEN. So we
ended on really good terms as Usual. Well then we went home and Elder
Kummerman cooked up some pork bacon sausage and gave me a huge patty.
Well the rest of the week went by
without much craziness, until the end. We found a new investigator named
Cristian. We started talking to him and we thought he was in his twenties,
Elder Kummerman thought he was 27, I thought he was 22 and well really
he was only 18, just barely that month WOW ya I was like dang I look
young and we were just kind of shocked. We had a good lesson with him
about the Restoration and he invited us to come back this
coming Thursday. Then we met with an investigator named Manuel, he was really pleased to
see us and he is reading and studying what we gave him from Alma 32 and
he is really taking a liking to The Book of Mormon.
We finally got in with Eric. It was great to see him and talk to him. He
wanted to be baptized the day before, which we didn't know since he
didn't tell us but he now is grateful he wasn't because he is taking the
commitment to be baptized more seriously and he has only one concern
and I believe it is the most genuine concern that anyone can have, "Can I
endure to the End, what if I make a mistake or mess up?" So we both
shared a bit about our conversion and how we have endured to the end and
how he can do the same as well. So he is going to do some more reading
of The Book of Mormon, and truly ponder and pray about how he can do
this thing.
Saturday
morning before service we went and taught our neighbors, and we were
going to teach a bit about the Plan of Salvation but we got sidetracked
and we were like "How can we get this back on track?" But we didn't but
what we did do is testify at the end saying, "With your concerns in mind
we know that is why God has called a prophet and restored his church to
the earth and given us the Book of Mormon, so that we can be guided and
directed in these last days of confusion."
Well that
is all I really have for this week, but I want to add my Testimony: that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to bless us and our families and to help lead and guide us in these last days so that we
can find our way through the maze of life. People said we needed a
prophet of God during World War 2, well now I say how much greater is our
need now, and we have been blessed to have a prophet on the earth since
the restoration of the Gospel through Joseph Smith. In the name of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
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