Born a Mormon, Die a Mormon

Not too much to report on this week but I had a pretty good time.

The difficult thing about our area is nobody is consistently home on weekdays so Saturday is really the only time we can teach people.  So we have very few lessons throughout the week then we are scattering to teach when Saturday comes and unfortunately this Saturday a lot of lessons fell through which left us feeling pretty discouraged.  Our focus right now is just finding new investigators (that are hopefully available for more than one day of the week).

We did have a new investigator this week who said something that I really liked.  He said that he is willing to hear our message but warned us that he was "born a Roman Catholic, and will die as a Roman Catholic".  Even though that wasn't exactly the best news for us, I really respected that.  Looking at it from my perspective, I was born a member of this church and I will die as a member of this church.  I've seen the miracles, known the grace, and felt the peace and blessings that comes from knowing that we all have a loving Heavenly Father who has a plan for us to return to Him as eternal families.  Nothing anybody says here can ever change that.  "And he had hope to shake me from the faith, notwithstanding the many revelations and the many things which I had seen concerning these things; for I truly had seen angels, and they had ministered unto me. And also, I had heard the voice of the Lord speaking unto me in very word, from time to time; wherefore, I could not be shaken."  Jacob 7:5

Missions are the BEST when you hold onto your testimony.

I made a salad because that's actually all I know how to make... 

Have an amazing week and hold onto the iron rod!!!

Elder Burdeos