June 15, 2015
hey momma bear!
I am doing a lot
better this week, way better, there is a talk I read recently from president
packer entitled "the candle of the lord" and it has some good
missionary type of advice about sharing testimonies and why it is so important,
so if you want you could give that a read. So this week something pretty awesome happened to
us. My companion and I have been meeting recently with a man,
he has been coming to English for years, and has met with missionaries off and
on over those years. So his biggest
obstacle is why we need the Book of Mormon, which is honestly a
question that I have never had to answer, so during a morning of study my
companion and I studied this, and I found a few answers. The first is basically
that the Bible and the Book of Mormon testify of each other, so the Book of
Mormon testifies the Bible is true, and the Bible testifies that the Book of
Mormon is true, they contain the same teachings, so if the Bible is true, so is
the Book of Mormon. And the second is that the Book of Mormon has lost
knowledge, the knowledge that everyone will resurrect, the fullness of the
gospel or in other words the plan of salvation, infant baptism, and so on. I
discovered all of these things that I knew already, but now I know better why
they were revealed, and why we need the Book of Mormon. So we had a meeting
yesterday with him, and testified of these things, exhorting him to read
and find out, to ask God. Then we asked him to follow the example of our savior
and become baptized, and he accepted.
love,
elder summers
hey dad!
my week was so good,
so much better than last week haha. that weather is craziness, I cant believe
its that hot in Wasilla and seward, fishing would be incredible up there right
now. and speaking of Alaska, ive heard some funny new things that people think
about Alaska here on the mission, mostly from missionaries. we had one here
from texas, and he had convinced himself that Alaska is all ice, and if it all
melted it would be smaller than texas, then another one thought that Alaska was
an island like Hawaii. its just like hearing crazy things about the gospel
people think about. once my companion and I got told that the first Mormon was
from Australia, no matter what we said she was firm in her belief, it was
pretty comical. thank you for your support and love, and your uplifting
words, they mean a lot.
love,
elder summers
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