Hey Family,
Good to hear that the Utes beat UCLA! That's a W!! Sounds like the family is doing really well! I'm glad to hear that Mom's back is doing good, and It's way awesome to hear your guys' testimonies every week! Dad thanks for the inspiration about facing Heavenly Father! The natural man is an enemy to God, but when we are able to put off the natural man and yield to the Spirit, then we become one with Heavenly Father and with the Spirit and there is nothing that can bring us down, and no trial that we can't face! This week has been alright! Again a week of lots of cancellations but we did our best to stay busy! We only taught about 6 or 7 lessons, but they went well! Me and Elder Harral have been working on finding new people to teach so that we can get some more investigators that want to hear our message, and that have been prepared by Heavenly Father to receive it! We have been praying that we will find new people and we have set some new goals this week to help us get new investigators!
Conference was awesome! By far the hardest thing that happened this week was not going to the priesthood session with Dad like I always have. I missed that so much. It was awesome to hear all of your favorite talks, and I agree that all of the ones that everyone said were awesome! My favorites were Elder Bednar's, and Elder Christoffersons! I also liked Elder Uchtdorf's in the priesthood session, he always comes through! Elder Bednar's talk was to all of the non-members of the church. He talked about how we are not forcing them to join our church, and we are not forcing them to change all of the beliefs that they already have, we are just inviting them to "Come and see" He made a great analogy and tied it in to how as missionaries, all we are doing is sharing what has brought us the most happiness and peace in our lives, and that is so true! I wish that all of the non-members of the church could have heard that talk! Elder Christofferson talked about how now and days people get their own beliefs and people only believe the things that they think are right or things that they want to believe. He went on to say that that doesn't change reality. If you don't believe in the law of gravity or only believe in some parts of it, that is not going to stop you from falling if you jump off a cliff!
The reality is that the Gospel is true, and it is the only true and living church on the earth today! No matter what you believe or want to believe, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true. That hit me really hard and strengthened my testimony so much! I know without a doubt that this Gospel is true and no matter what anyone says to me or does to me I will not deny it! Heavenly Father is real and is present in all of our lives, and I know no matter what trial or hardship or anything that we face, if we humble ourselves before Him and put all of our faith in him, then he will make our weaknesses become our strengths! I love you all and I hope you are doing awesome!
Love Elder Summerhays
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