Family,
Wow it was so great to see you yesterday. I am sooo glad it
all worked out so easily too. F---- and P--- were the best and had the ipad
and the computers all charging when we got there and the internet was pretty
smooth. Just all around very easy and simple and it all connected and he let me
use his skype account, which was a blessing. But man, I had a good time
talking to you and seeing your faces. It was fun to see you and then Chloe on
the phone. Alexis had our own time (saw each other last week) so its good. Haha But thanks for making it
such a good call. I felt great during and great after. It was good to talk over
some plans but I feel great today and focused so a few more months of blowing
NJ up with the Gospel!
I guess I explained a lot of the main things we are doing
and answered some questions yesterday but I didn't get to talk too much about
the week we had so I will give you a rundown of it all. This week started out
pretty nuts with F and P just trying to help them out. We had a lesson
on Monday with them that just was kinda chaotic. It was just taking a long time
so we cut somethings down and just went off the Spirit and made our lesson a
little quicker and more direct. They have a lot of interest to really live the
Gospel to the fullest. Its kind of interesting, they are really becoming
converted and its clear that they have a real desire to live the Gospel and the
laws to the fullest. So they first wanted to learn more about our modern day
prophet. So we shared some scriptures about how prophets and called and share
our testimonies with them. Next time we are going to watch his biography movie
with them. But they are just the happiest family and the greatest. We love
them!
We had zone meeting on Tuesday which was awesome. Our zone
leaders are great. Yes they are younger than a lot of us but man they are some
powerful missionaries. I love listening to their trainings. They are definitely
inspired and bring a lot of energy to the zone. We love them. They talked about
finding new people this last week. President wants us finding more people and
dropping more people if they aren't willing to progress. That way we cylce
through people faster and as we meet new people we have a better chance to meet
prepared people that will listen to our message and ACT. Two lines in PMG have
stuck out to me lately:
“Find Them That Will Receive You.” You are to
build up the Church by finding “them that will receive you” (D&C 42:8).
Such people will recognize that you are the Lord’s servants. They will be
willing to act on your message." -Preach My Gospel
So we are really looking for those who really want to make
those commitments and act. Yes we still work with everyone but our focus is on
those people who are in desperate need of just some light in their life but are
“kept from the truth [only] because they know not where to find it” (D&C
123:12). Its a good focus because we know there are people out there that are
ready. Sometimes they dont even know they are ready but that's why we are called
so that we can share with them this good news.
We have a great teaching pool of investigators. We only got
to see a handful of them this last week. One of them is this atheist lady I was
telling you about. We taught her on Friday and wow it was one of the best
lessons I have been a part of. My testimony of the Gospel was strengthened,
maybe even more than hers. We started off with her teaching the restoration and
within 30 seconds she had tons of questions and opposition and yeah it was just
a mess. I was thinking, "Ok this lady obviously has no desires to learn
this stuff and she is opposing everything. And just bringing up random topics,
we are going to teach this lesson and maybe it will be our last with
her." But we kept praying and wow the lesson turned around as we discussed
why false doctrine is there and we were here to teach God's restored truth.
It was awesome. We walked away with a good spirit and we will see her again.
Anyways. Love the phone call yesterday. What a car!!! Cant
believe it Sam. haha and I love you all so much!
Elder Sumsion
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