I hope everybody had an awesome 4th of July! What a huge
blessing it is to live in a free country that is blessed and guided by God's
hand.
On Wednesday we had a mini zone conference to meet our new
mission president, President Mortensen and his family. They are awesome! We
love them so much! They are like the perfect family -- funny, nice, loving,
talented, beautiful, and most importantly strong in the gospel and their love
for Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We are very excited to get to serve with
them. We have interviews on Thursday so we will be able to get to know
President a little better.
For the 4th of July we spent the night with 3 less-actives
and a nonmember. It was really fun and simple! We had texas shaped hamburgers
because is there any better way to celebrate America than have Texas-shaped
stuff? They were really good burgers. And we had s'mores. The two guys that
were there had never had s'mores before! Crazy. One of them liked it, and the
other one thought they were weird. I don't know how somebody could not like
s'mores. It's just ridiculous. Then we did a few fireworks and sparklers that
they had bought and just watched all of the other fireworks in the sky all
around us. It was awesome! 4th of July is so much fun!
We meet with a less-active lady every Thursday evening. She
hasn't come to church in forever because she has anxiety issues and stuff.
Anyway, two weeks ago we took a laurel in the ward with us and taught her the
Restoration and this week we talked about the importance of prophets. They were
both powerful lessons, and she is now talking about how she needs to come to
church and is going to try harder to come. She didn't come yesterday, but we
are praying for next week.
And we have had some other success in getting less-active
members to church or at least them starting to have that desire to come. It is
going well. And we are starting to use family history more in helping
reactivate people and focusing on using the Book of Mormon more in finding
people to teach. I love the Book of Mormon. It is just so pure and powerful.
There is an article in this month's Ensign about the gathering of Israel, the
Second Coming, and the Book of Mormon by one of our apostles, Elder Russell M.
Nelson. There is a line in there that has been going through my head all week.
It says "It (The Book of Mormon) is the only book the Lord has testified to
be true." This testimony can be found in Doctrine and Covenants 17:6. Now
this isn't putting the Bible down. I love the Bible and it is truly
irreplacable and invaluable since it contains a record of Christ's earth life.
However, we all know that there are errors in the Bible because of
mistranslations and things that have been taken out or changed over the
thousands of years. The Book of Mormon is pure in that it doesn't have those
errors. It's purity allows you to feel the Spirit of God so strongly and it's simplicity
allows us to better our understanding of Christ and His role as our Savior and
Redeemer.
I hope you all have a great week!!
Love,
Sister Sylvester
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