Hey all!
This week was pretty interesting. We did a lot of work
meeting folks and finding some more on the streets of Skövde. A few highlights
that I can think of include:
1. I was on splits with Elder Helm from Borås. He
accidentally called someone in our contacts who told us she wasn't interested a
few weeks ago. She didn't pick up the phone but she did send a text saying that
if we ever contacted her again she would call the police. That was kinda funny.
2. Elder Martineau and I made a deal that if he ate a
teaspoon of wasabi then I would eat the rest of our jar of low-quality bread
and butter pickles by the end of the day (there was about a pound of pickles
left). So he ate the wasabi and had a terrible experience with it. So then I
had to eat the rest of the pickles which was a different kind of pain. The
wasabi was a quick intense pain. The pickles were a long, mentally and emotionally
draining process. I was literally dreading putting more pickles in my mouth by
the end of it. A lose-lose really.
3. It was Elder Martineau's birthday on Saturday! He turned
20. So we made banana bread and lit some candles and then got sushi later in the
day.
The scripture I chose this week is something that we've been
emphasizing lately with our investigators and something that I have seen in my
own life. The Savior teaches us a very logical concept: We learn truth by first
acting in faith and experiencing how it effects us in our lives. Or to put it
more crudely: You can't knock it 'till you've tried it.
I've had countless conversations with people who try to
convince me that the Book of Mormon isn't true. I listen to what they have to
say and then ask them if they've read it. And the answer always is that they
haven't. The truly sad part, however, is when they refuse to read it. How can
you possibly know if something is true or false if you haven't taken the time
to learn about it or apply it in your life?
The gospel may seem a little backwards to people who expect
to know if something is true before they act on it. But like Alma teaches in
Alma 32, that requires no faith. The Lord requires us to have faith in Him and
take the first few steps, then we can know by our own experience that the
doctrine is true.
Love,
Äldste Cummings
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