Hello Everyone! I don't have much for this week, but here are some things
We've had some better lessons this week with our friends. One of our friends is America, who is currently in another church, but we've shared the Book of Mormon with her. One of her big questions is "Why are there so many churches?" and we've been telling her the story of Joseph Smith and his first vision. She's very open and honest and I hope to see her progress more.
Another friend is Sallee. We had a lesson with her and one of our members Saturday and it was pretty good! She's familiar with the church, and used to attend sacrament meetings a lot, but she's also content with what she has. At the very end, after we taught the whole Restoration and bore our testimonies of the Book of Mormon, she said she was going to take reading seriously. We hope so!
On Saturday we also had another District Blitz. It was similar to that which we did in Week 79, which is basically just a big district get together, and then we pair off into new companionships where we have an English missionary with a Spanish missionary, and a Tagalog missionary with a Spanish missionary. It's just to help us cover more languages when we go out and about.
For my spiritual thought this week I wanted to share with you some thoughts from "Of Lions, Dragons, and Turkish Delight" by S. Michael Wilcox, which I listened to earlier this week. He talks a lot about C.S. Lewis and his similar views to Latter-day Saints when it comes to eternal progression. It was a really good message. One of my favorites was his concept of dare not to dare. What he means by that, is that the process of refinement will be a lot for each of us. Christ will demand that we give up many things, and we will also endure sufferings. But at the end of it all, we can achieve being perfected in Christ, which is the greatest gift of all. A gift so great, that we can't not dare to do it. We can't not dare to endure. But that's just a portion of all of the good gems that he shares in his message.
Thank you guys for everything! I love each of you!
- Elder Wride
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