I've been sitting here
for 2 hours and I almost forgot to write my weekly!!
Well this week was good,
but I can remember too much. I’m sorry,
mom. I didn’t get a picture of me and my
companion yet! But the week was good we went out to what I think is the
farthest part of our area. It is a
village and we taught some really sweet high school students and a man named Christian.
They all stay in different cities and they are only there for schooling, but
the fact that we introduced the gospel to them is sweet! They seemed to accept
the message of the restoration really well, even if we didn’t teach it formally,
but our testimony of what we would teach really seemed to get their attention.
I guess we teach really
differently from a lot of other missions in the world. Here is how it normally
goes: First visit: An introduction of
ourselves and if we get time talk about God and what he looks like and how he
is. Visit 2: Restoration-- either start with God or the gospel blesses families
then go to Prophets and dispensations (only we don’t really teach dispensations--it’s
pretty complicated). Visit 3: The Savior’s
Church to the apostasy. Visit 4: Joseph Smith and the restoration. Visit 5: The Book of Mormon, prayer and the Holy
Ghost. We don’t take so long because they have questions. Mostly because it’s a lot for the people to
understand in 45 minutes to an hour. Most
of our lessons are an hour or longer because these people love the word of God,
but we go slow so they understand it personally. I’d like to teach it all within 3 visits but
5 seems to work.
The time is coming for
our new chapel to be done. I really hope
it is this week. We’ve only had 1
investigator that was able to come to the chapel we are at now (we plan for
about 7 each week). They are just
waiting for the closer building, so it’s a struggle, but it’s understandable :)
I forgot my camera today
so I don’t have pictures, but overall you can imagine I look really good. Especially
since I was sick yesterday and this morning so I’ve lost about 10 pounds :) (the
benefits of sickness)
UMMMMMMM what else? I don’t know.
I’m alive and happy. Prayers do
get answered so keep praying (and look it up in the bible dictionary because it
is really interesting)
Love you all!
--
-Elder Ellsworth
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