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| The Library Pump |
Things have picked up drastically recently, and like the scripture in the New Testament and the Doctrine and Covenants says we have been sifting the Wheat from the Tares. (I can't believe how many people we were teaching were Tares)
For those of you who don't know what I am talking about. A Tare is grass or poisonous weed that is similar in appearance to wheat. It cannot be distinguished from wheat until it is fully grown. Here is the scripture: D&C 86:7 "Therefore, let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe; then ye shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and after the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned." So basically a Tare is somebody who is not ready for the message of the Gospel and the Wheat represents those who are.
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| The Snow Came. It was a lot. |
Amidst plucking up all the Tares in our area we have come upon fields of Wheat, white and ready to harvest. In other words, we have dropped a lot of the people we have been trying to teach because they just came out and told us they are not interested, or they won't respond to any messages. But we were able to find lots of new people to teach. Each one is having good contact with members and missionaries in the past.
The first family: they were super nice and let us in and gave us some water, we were able to use this opportunity to share what a missionary's purpose is and they had lots of questions. We eventually found out that the husband of the family had a best friend while growing up, who had been a great example and even served a mission, so he was very interested in finding our more about what we did.
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| The Old MTC Gang |
Eventually the time came where we had to go, but not before we were asked what our church believes, faith or works? After a small discussion and us telling him that the question was like asking what blade on the scissors was more important. That without faith works are dead, and without works faith is dead. He seemed to like that answer and said we could come back sometime.
The next guy is not as promising. He goes to a local church College called New Saint Andrews (which is only one place of many in this town that teach and preach Anti). Whenever we hear that somebody is from that school in particular we prepare ourselves for an aggressive assault on our our faith, but with this man it wasn't quite like what we expected.
He also had a best friend who served a mission, and he wanted to know more about our church from the source, because he was all together very familiar with Anti information. So we didn't have much of a bible bash. It was actually a discussion, he wanted to know why we though that the Gospel (the Bible and the churches) changed after the death of the Apostles as well as why we claim to be the only right church which lead to a whole hour of discussions.
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| The Sky is Pretty |
In the end we had already told him about the Priesthood, (power and authority to act in God's name). Why many different people thought the church had to be reformed, (because they could plainly see that what was taught and practiced AKA the sales of indulgences among many others practices were not what Christ taught). And even the First Vision with Joseph Smith and his experience with God, (if you either have not seen it or have no idea what I am talking about, go to https://www.
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| Pretty Again |
Anyways, after last P-day that is when the temperature started diving. Immediately after we P-day ended a snowstorm took us all by surprise. Suddenly it was knit cap and gloves season and still is.
We met the most crazy man I have ever had the chance to comprehend in my life (no he did not have the Wenslydale? (inside joke).
He claimed that he knew what food was, that you could only eat grain seeds that have sprouted. He said that he could go into his past lives, that he remembered what it was like to talk to Cain and Able as their father Adam and many more things did he say which cannot be written here for I am forbidden by my companion. Just know, that this guy was crackbrained.
Halloween was a bit of a disappointment. All the missionaries in our mission had to stay inside from starting from 5:00 to the next day. Not just because they want us to avoid the drunk mayhem which is good, but it is because people like to dress up as missionaries. So our mission president know that we are not getting into or causing trouble, he makes sure what we just stay inside for the night. (I am only telling you this so I have an excuse to not be able to tell you any cool Halloween stories, because there are none).
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| My Companion, Elder Wang, and I |
Well, that's a lot to talk about, and I haven't even mentioned my companion Elder Wang. He is so good with English. He is even pretty witty, even so sometimes he gets a little lost, but I am positive that the holy Ghost helps him pick up right where he left off.
We taught some people a few days ago who were struggling to know if God loves them, to make the long story short we basically told them this. "You yourselves being parents love your children right?" They say "yes". "Well we have a Father in Heaven, and He loves us more than we can understand, so much in fact that he sent His first born son to suffer and die for us. That is how much our Father loves us". By this time we were able to get our point across and show them God's love for us.
Thank you all for your love and support, especially for reading my email. (man they are getting long).
Pictures, it's been cold and we have been taking lots of pictures.
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