Hey Family!
How is everything going? Sounds like everyone has been pretty good!
This week was pretty good for us! It started out with a ton of tracting and contacting! Elder Olsen is getting super good at teaching and finding, and we are getting along really well! We weren't able to meet with a lot of our investigators this week but we met with some of them! Anthony was one of those! We went over to his house on Wednesday and we got there and he came out and told us that he was just on his way out to go to McDonalds to get some food, but we started talking to him and asking him if he read the pamphlet that we gave him last time and he said that he did. So we asked him what he thought about it and he said that he couldn’t remember a lot of it but he remembered that he liked it! So we kept talking with him and told him that we wanted to share our message with him, and we told him that we knew that he was busy and if he had any other time that we could share the message with him. Then he was like “Oh no I have some time right now go for it!” So we were like sweet, and we started talking about the Restoration and how God is our loving Heavenly Father and then his wife walked out with one of their babies and started talking with us. She was super nice and she liked us! So then Bro Benson (Who was the member that we brought with us) started talking about families and how the Gospel can bless our families and how it’s blessed his family, and then he basically told his conversion story cause Anthony was asking questions, and it hit Anthony really hard while he was talking! Then Bro Benson handed it off to us and we started teaching again, and we talked about Christ when he set up his church and how we need that authority to do that. And earlier he had wondered why there are so many churches today, and how we can know which one is true, and so then we explained the Apostasy and how that authority wasn’t there during the Apostasy so that’s why we have so many different churches. After we said that he was like “Wow man that’s powerful, like wow that’s super powerful!” And we saw that he could feel the Spirit so then we kept teaching and led into the Restoration through Joseph Smith and stuff and we asked him what he thought about the first vision and if he thought it was true and stuff, and he said “That’s pretty crazy, and awesome!” and we testified of it and then we talked about the Book of Mormon and how it’s kinda the proof of our message and of Joseph Smith being a prophet, and we stressed how he has to read it and pray about it for himself to know if it’s true. He told us that he really wants that change in his life and he really wants to know if it’s true and he knows that he needs to act in order to find that out. So we committed him to read the BOM and pray about it and also to come to church and he said he would do both of those! At the end of the lesson he said “Man I feel good now like wow!” And we explained that that was the Spirit testifying of truth. So it was a super good lesson, and we are excited to keep teaching him and baptize him and hopefully his family!
It's super cool to see how the Spirit works in peoples lives and truly changes their hearts! You meet a ton of people on the mission who struggle a lot with things going on in their lives, and choices they have made, and they really just don't know how to overcome their problems. A ton of people get to a point where they just feel like all hope is lost and they feel that that's just the way life is, hard, sad, and discouraging and there is nothing they can do about it. But then they hear about the Gospel and they find that hope, and then they act and live the Gospel and their whole life flips around and they become a new person! It is so awesome to see and be a part of that! And we can apply that into our own lives as well. Sometimes we make choices that bring sadness and hardship into our lives, and sometimes those things just come, but we always have the promise that if we live the Gospel and keep the commandments that we will be happy and we will be blessed! I love the scripture in Alma 41 that says wickedness never was happiness, because that is so true! The only way to be truly happy in this life is through the Gospel! I see that every day in my own life and in the lives of everyone around me, and I know it's true!
Anyways, I love and miss all of you guys and hope everything is going awesome! I'll talk to you later!
Love Elder Summerhays
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