This Week me and Elder Hall went to mass. It was fun. I wish I could share more but I have to go now. Love you all!
Here's what my companion said about the week. Im just going to paste his in here because I am burned out of emailing and time. And he is better at emailing than me. Cool Experiences. For sure. We both experienced a lot of the same big impressions and experiences this week.
Elder Hall Everyone:
Heyy yall!
so this week was pretty cool! so its transfer week this week and im not getting transferred so that's pretty cool im excited to stay! but this week was pretty awesome! so i have this experience that happened to me this week and i want to start of by explaining some other things first. so growing up in the church i always had this stupid idea that this was the only true church and that we were sorta competing against other churches and i guess here is how my opinion changed. so a few weeks back we were on our way to Denham springs for an exchange with the zone leaders and we passed this baptist guy preaching to all these people in a big tent so we were like what the heck we got a few min lets stop buy and listen. so we did and i felt the sprit really strong during his little sermon thing and i was just like wow i was totally wrong and other churches do teach truth! so we had the exchange and then on the way back we went to it again and i got the same impression. so that was cool. then we were tracting it made it a lot easier to talk with people of other faiths cuz i knew or i found out that as long as people had a firm belief in Christ and want to follow him that they will be saved when he comes again. he will ask and explain to him that people need authority. and they will do what he asks so anyway. i guess i just grew to realize that god isn't just preforming his work through this church but through every single person or faith that believes in Christ. and this church was restored because the ordnances that are needed not necessarily because of what we teach because most do teach similar things. ok so then me and my companion decided to go to a catholic mass after we were tracting for part of the day and just kept getting shut down by all these catholic people. so we just thought we would try to get one of them to take us and see how they reacted so we found someone and then we went and it was pretty cool elder Davis thought the mass was really weird. i knew what to expect sorta cuz i had been before but it was cool. we got a blessing from the priest and everything. then the next day we went and talked to this catholic lady we found and she was shutting us down just like all catholic people do and then we told her that we just went to mass and we had questions so then she opened up and we taught an awesome lesson so then we were like wow good thing we have like changed our perspective about churches and stuff and that was cool then this even cooler thing happened yesterday and this is why we think that god had taught us all this. ok so yesterday we went and we checked this referral that was all the way at the edge of our area and he had ordered a book of Mormon which is unusual. usually people just want free bibles. so we went and talked to him and turns out that he had a book of Mormon but it was lost in the flooding that we had a little bit ago and he said that he has read about half of it and that he knows that the book of Mormon is true so we were like sweet! and then he started to tell us how he was a youth pastor for this church in one of the cities we cover and he was telling us that he wants to get all the youth that he teaches which is about 40 kids he said a book of Mormon and that he wants to take them all to our church one sunday and we were like yes that would be awesome so we exchanged info and stuff and set up an appointment and stuff to teach them. so yeah that's the story. we have no idea how this will turn out. it does seem way to good to be true but we are just gonna go forward in faith and hope that the lord will continue to bless us.
-Elder Hall &Elder Davis
Here's what my companion said about the week. Im just going to paste his in here because I am burned out of emailing and time. And he is better at emailing than me. Cool Experiences. For sure. We both experienced a lot of the same big impressions and experiences this week.
Elder Hall Everyone:
Heyy yall!
so this week was pretty cool! so its transfer week this week and im not getting transferred so that's pretty cool im excited to stay! but this week was pretty awesome! so i have this experience that happened to me this week and i want to start of by explaining some other things first. so growing up in the church i always had this stupid idea that this was the only true church and that we were sorta competing against other churches and i guess here is how my opinion changed. so a few weeks back we were on our way to Denham springs for an exchange with the zone leaders and we passed this baptist guy preaching to all these people in a big tent so we were like what the heck we got a few min lets stop buy and listen. so we did and i felt the sprit really strong during his little sermon thing and i was just like wow i was totally wrong and other churches do teach truth! so we had the exchange and then on the way back we went to it again and i got the same impression. so that was cool. then we were tracting it made it a lot easier to talk with people of other faiths cuz i knew or i found out that as long as people had a firm belief in Christ and want to follow him that they will be saved when he comes again. he will ask and explain to him that people need authority. and they will do what he asks so anyway. i guess i just grew to realize that god isn't just preforming his work through this church but through every single person or faith that believes in Christ. and this church was restored because the ordnances that are needed not necessarily because of what we teach because most do teach similar things. ok so then me and my companion decided to go to a catholic mass after we were tracting for part of the day and just kept getting shut down by all these catholic people. so we just thought we would try to get one of them to take us and see how they reacted so we found someone and then we went and it was pretty cool elder Davis thought the mass was really weird. i knew what to expect sorta cuz i had been before but it was cool. we got a blessing from the priest and everything. then the next day we went and talked to this catholic lady we found and she was shutting us down just like all catholic people do and then we told her that we just went to mass and we had questions so then she opened up and we taught an awesome lesson so then we were like wow good thing we have like changed our perspective about churches and stuff and that was cool then this even cooler thing happened yesterday and this is why we think that god had taught us all this. ok so yesterday we went and we checked this referral that was all the way at the edge of our area and he had ordered a book of Mormon which is unusual. usually people just want free bibles. so we went and talked to him and turns out that he had a book of Mormon but it was lost in the flooding that we had a little bit ago and he said that he has read about half of it and that he knows that the book of Mormon is true so we were like sweet! and then he started to tell us how he was a youth pastor for this church in one of the cities we cover and he was telling us that he wants to get all the youth that he teaches which is about 40 kids he said a book of Mormon and that he wants to take them all to our church one sunday and we were like yes that would be awesome so we exchanged info and stuff and set up an appointment and stuff to teach them. so yeah that's the story. we have no idea how this will turn out. it does seem way to good to be true but we are just gonna go forward in faith and hope that the lord will continue to bless us.
-Elder Hall &Elder Davis