Dearest Mom that is mine.
That's amazing that you had a dream like that. Looks like one of your spiritual gifts are like Lehi's when he had a dream of the destruction of Jerusalem.
My move went well. I do miss some of the families back in my other area. The missionaries here lost all the trust with the members so its mine and Elders Smiths job to gain it back. We are tracting a ton right now and we are both very tired in just this week.
The mission president called Elder Smith before I got here and told him that he had never felt so strong about putting missionaries together then as me and Elder Smith. And my new companion is way amazing and is a really hard worker. He actually knows Kade Moss if you remember that family that use to be in our ward. We have found alot of people to start teaching since we have been here. We will be doing a bible study with a group of moms that will let us in on Wednesday. We will slowly slide in the book of Mormon with them as well. =) We have also been meeting with a man who was Excommunicated from the church who is trying to come back. This man is a very smart man in everything that he does. But the reason I'm sharing this about him is because of what he said when we asked him this question. "So have you been able to feel any different when you lost the companionship of the Holy Ghost" His reply was " Oh Ya...You don't even know. This whole time I felt like it was myself that was so educated and smart. But when I lost the Holy Ghost... it felt like the only thing I could do now was make an educated guess." I think sometimes we all take the holy ghost for granted and we become so use to it as members of the church that we start to forget that it really does help us with everything that we do. I guess the saying you don't realize what you have until you lose it comes into play here.
Man there's so much I want to tell you but they just give us so little time so I will have to make some of these other stories shorter because I want to be able to remember them when I get home. Alright a couple nights ago we met with this lady named Tina who has been a less active for a couple years now I'm guessing. When we met her she let us right in and told us that there is no way that she was going to be coming back to church and said that she already haves home teachers that come over every month and they have not been able to change my mind. So we started talking with her and asking a few simple questions and then asked when was the point when you just decided no more. She stated that she had a real hard time with us not letting in gays because she deals with so much of them everyday and tries to help them through all the hard ships. So we started telling her why we believed what we did and then I shared when I had a hard time before I left on my mission when our church wouldn't let blacks have the priesthood. I started telling her what I did and how I got my answer and asked her to do the same. And in the end she loved us and wanted us to come back again so that we could talk with her and also said that she didn't know that our church let us study other religions. So I had to make that so short but I'm almost out of time.
Well i am in Spokane again so my crazy stories will be coming back. One of the crazy guys we met here said that our bible says that black people come from another planet. We were trying to explain to him what we believed and why about black people. But in the end he really couldn't tell us where black people come from. I think people fail to realize that what we know about black people are true. No one else can really explain where black people began to be. It was Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Eve and Tyrone...
I love you the mom. =)
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