Congrats to Liv on graduating! That's super awesome Liv wait to stick it out! I bet you guys are all getting excited with summer coming up!
This week was really good! We were really busy which is the best! We are getting excited for Michael and Mike's baptism this Saturday, and so are they! They are both super ready and they are going to be solid members of the church!
We were also able to meet with Fred this week. He is reading the Book of Mormon every day and studying it thoroughly. He has questions about it every time we come over and we answer them for him. We invite him to baptism in every single lesson and he keeps saying that when he gets a solid answer then he will set a date for his baptism, but he wants to first get to that point so that's what we are working on with him. We are also working with another guy named Bob Gardner. His wife is a member named Michelle who is less active, and he has been meeting with the missionaries for years now. He has an alcohol addiction that he is trying to overcome right now by going to rehab, and it's helping a little bit, but he still hasn't completely overcome it. We are working with him and we invited him to be baptized. He talked about how he has a couple things that he has to overcome before then, but eventually he feels like he wants to do it! So we're helping him with that and he came to church this week for the first time in forever so that was cool!
We did a lot of tracting this week as well and we met a lot of nice people who just didn't want to take the necessary steps to change their lives around. We would explain the Restoration to them and talk about prophets really simply and testify about how it can help there lives and we would ask them if they thought this message would be important to them and they would say "Yeah definitely!" then we would ask when we could come by and share it with them and they would say "Well you know guys I'm not interested but thanks for coming by!" Then we would talk to them a little bit more and try again, but they would say they are busy or something like that. There is a saying in our mission called Learn, Do, Become. When we learn the Gospel we have a desire to live it and when we live it and do it, then we become like the Savior. We meet a lot of people who learn about the Gospel but they are not willing to do the things necessary to become a better person. There is so much potential that all of us in the world have as sons and daughters of God, but in order to reach it we not only have to believe in the Gospel and believe in The Savior, but we have to live the Gospel and DO like the Savior. I challenge all of you to do that. If you have anything right now that you feel like you could do a better job at, fix it! If you do you will become someone better! I love and miss all of you and hope all is well! Talk to you next week.
Love Elder Summerhays
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