Hello everyone!
Before I begin I want to let you know our p-day has been moved this upcoming Monday to the holiday as well. I will not have a p-day on November 19th. Instead it will be on the 22nd. I will not be able to read/respond to emails until then unfortunately.
Also I wanted to quickly say: Happy birthday Dad and Aaron! I hope you both had wonderful days and I know that mom/grandma took extra care of both of you!
Now onto my actual week:
We met quite a few new people this week!
Lewis, who originally we found on Halloween night, has the most prepared heart out for this gospel than I have seen from anyone else. His first concern: "i need to go to church. I have to go and i know that it can help me" so of course we responded by saying we can make sure he gets a ride to church every week!
His second concern: "I do think these preachers are good people and can help, but I feel like I need a living prophet to guide me and tell me what I need to do." So of course we responded by saying we are the only church to have living prophets who can do exactly that!
This week was stake conference and Lewis came to the Saturday night session- which I am SO glad he did because I promise you the people who spoke there literally could've spoken at general conference. The spirit was strong and I know he felt it. He has told us he us very excited to go to church with us again!
Patrick also came to church with us on Sunday! Patrick is the person who has his own art studio. Some of the members in the YSA saved us front row seats for the person we were teaching! It was so nice of them and that truly did help the spirit flow better because we could hear so well. Patrick was sitting and listening and I looked over at him once and he was even taking notes! He took like 4 pages of notes!!!
At the end we had him meet our mission president and his wife - president and sister Evans who were delighted to meet him. Man I hope one day they can come see his art studio because it is so cool! I'll attach a picture that i took of his studio (I had his permission to do so).
My companion and I also had the opportunity to give a member of our branch a priesthood blessing. Guys for real, these actually do work. Priesthood blessings are the coolest because they really do help you feel the comfort God gives us.
On Friday we had Jose's baptism by water AND by fire! Since it was stake conference this week we received permission to give Jose the holy ghost right after his baptism! He's so solid. We brought along Abhishek who we are teaching as well! One of our members, Brother D'alba drove him and they've hit it off. They talked the ENTIRE time and Abhishek really enjoys hearing an older member of our church explain what we believe rather than believe two 19 year old guys... which is understandable honestly.
We also met a woman at Buffalo State and her name is Yoon. When we met her we showed her the book of Mormon and her eyes lit up and said "oh I've been to Utah! I went to Orem!" Turns out she went to UVU for awhile! We got her a Korean copy of the Book of Mormon (because her native tongue is Korean) and we had a first lesson with her on Saturday. She is very interested in learning more!
Sunday night we went knocking doors which I've only done 2 times before... we met some really cool people and almost everyone gave us the time of day! It was really nice to see. We only teach people who are of YSA age (18-30) and the first person who asked us to come back was an older woman. We referred her name to some other missionaries who hopefully will see her on Tuesday. We also met another guy for maybe 3 minutes and he asked us to come back too! He is definitely of YSA age and we will get back with him Tuesday as well!
That's all I really have for this week. I do have a spiritual thought though:
We can see that the Book of Mormon truly is connected to the bible!
Ezekiel 37: 16
This scripture references the stick of Judah, which we know Christ comes from the tribe of Judah and is speaking of the bible. Then it also references the stick of Joseph, who is Joseph of Egypt. Then says to join the two sticks as one.
We know that Lehi and his family - the family who was told by God to sail to the Americas - are the remnants of the tribe of Joseph of Egypt! So by joining the the sticks of Judah and Joseph together, we then are asked to read the bible and the book of Mormon because those are the only 2 records which talk of the two tribes.
Of course, with all this said, don't just read both books and take it for 100% truth. We are ALWAYS asked to pray to know that what we read is the truth - "And by the power of the holy ghost, ye may know the truth of all things" - Moroni 10:5. This us the challenge we issue to everyone we see. We never ask people to believe our words because if they only believe our words, we have converted them unto us. If you read and immediately take the bible or book of Mormon for the truth, you've converted unto the bible or the book of Mormon. Our purpose for being here is to be converted unto the LORD and nothing else. I know that as we continue to ask for the holy ghost to testify of the truth in the 2 records that we read, we will continue to be converted unto the Lord and no one else.
Elder Breshears
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