Dear Family and friends,
This has been a good week.
Nebraska is really getting into the fall weather. The cornfields are coming down and the soy fields are being harvested and all is wrapping
up, unless you are a missionary and you work seven days a week and you
work from
8:00-21:00 or on a lucky preparation day only from 8 to 10 and from 17 to 21, so the work never stops.
This week I am not going to attempt to give you a day by day play of
what happened, as that would be boring like my usual letters.
This week marks the mission wide Step it up campaign in Nebraska. We had
a zone training about stepping it up, having more effective studies, and
inviting to be baptized more often. The trainings were fantastic.
President Gardner showed up to interview us and see how we are doing. It
was a very motivational meeting and setting. I was super excited to
take it back to Crete and see miracles and as we got to work. Well the
miracles didn't rain down from heaven, the people didn't jump and say Yes
we want to listen to you. They grabbed their Bibles like the Pharisees of
Old and clamored Blasphemy and tossed scripture at us with senseless
fury.
Now that is a dark and dreary and drab view
of how the week went, but it wasn't all like that. I will share a few of
the highlights with you. Tuesday
we had fantastic lesson with Miguel and Luis about scripture study and
prayer, and that was really good. We got their aunt and our ward mission
leader in on the lesson and it rocked.
Wednesday
our highlight lesson was with Crystal and Guierrmo and that was a good-ish
lesson. Crystal's sister was there and she is an Atheist. She asked
us how we can justify a belief in God when you can't hear him, see him,
touch him, or smell him. Well we got talking and I pulled out 2 Nephi 2 and
Alma 30, and basically said if the only things that are really are what
we see, hear, touch, or smell then you neither believe in science or logic
but there are things unseen which are true. Oxygen, atoms, magma, tectonic
plates, sharks, gases etc.... Yet here I have a book called The Book of
Mormon, which you can not tell me a farm boy wrote it because no farm boy
is that smart and the archeologically evidence is there. So before we
finished the conversation she just got up and left the room and Elder
Infante said you had her that is why she left, she saw and she was
scared.
we went and saw Mary and had a good lesson on The Plan of Salvation,
she just needs to listen to The Book of Mormon. Then we saw Celeste, she is the daughter of an investigator, we stopped by to see her parents
but they were both gone and since we had a team up we had the
opportunity to teach her about The Book of Mormon, which was awesome. She
accepted it right off the bat, basically and that was sweet! She said she
would read it even if she had to carry it around school, like she had
been doing and at the end of the lesson. She asked "Can I keep this copy
you just gave me? One of my teachers asked if he could have the copy I
had at school, so I actually don't have one." BOOM! Miracle! I want his
address.
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