Letter #35

 Hey! What's goin' on everybody? This week was awesome, Elder Stucki and I had a lot of fun and met a lot of amazing people!


One of the people that we met is named Jimmy and he's a nonmember, worked with the missionaries in the past quite a bit but hasn't committed to baptism yet. He's got a cool story actually, he's got some family tjat are members and when he was younger he went to church a lot and even went out on splits with the missionaries, making visits with them, teaching lessons, and talking with people so despite not being a member yet, he und understands quite a bit! The lesson we had with him was awsome, he is a really deep thinker, like deep deep stuff, and has a lot of interesting views on the current world and the things that are going on. 

His reason for not committing yet was the fact that he struggles to see God in people. He sees a lot of people professing to be disciples of Christ but not really living their supposed standards; he sees a lot of pride, hypocrisy, judgement, etc., which I'd say is true for a lot of the world nowadays. It reminded me of the many instances in the Book of Mormon where the Nephites (the righteous people) began to take God's blessings for granted and got lifted up in the pride of their hearts, turning towards hypocrisy, judgement, and all that. But I love how God is so merciful even to this day and how turning towards him will make all the difference. 


We also met another older couple, very nice and religious people, they invited us back to learn a bit more about the Book of Mormon and we had a great discussion over the Restoration! They have an awesome relation with the Savior and we expressed love and the desire to add on to the truths they already have and they accepted our invitation to learn more! Their names are Dani and Bridget so please keep them in your prayers!

The rest of the week was great, we spent a lot of time knocking doors, had some good contacts, got yelled at a few times, but it was fun! It is such an honor to serve the Lord and even when some people aren't so happy to learn of his message that He has given us to share, the blessings and the love that come from it are literally out of this world! 

I've heard that some of you guys have got mission calls of your own and if so please add me to your email list! 

Love you guys!

Pics from our hike today:




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