Hello!
This week has been quite exciting! Elder Burns and I have been putting in some good work into our beloved Karlskrona and we're seeing some great progress! It's also an incredible 70 degrees right know which feels downright awesome.
On Friday, we were walking around town talking to people about the gospel when a woman called us over from an outdoor cafe table where she was sitting with her husband. She proceeded to ask us genuine questions about what we believe in and after about a 15 minute discussion--which concluded with her saying "1000 years ago everyone laughed at the people who thought the world wasn't flat. Everyone laughs at the Mormons now, maybe we ought to give them a chance"--they invited us over for dinner for the following week!
That experience--along with a couple of others over the past couple of weeks--has made me very excited for the work we will have on our plate in the near future. The Lord is truly blessing us!
The verse I chose this week teaches a principle that I often discuss with people on the street. We meet a lot of people who don't believe in anything because they don't think about it and feel like they can get by without any sort of faith in anything. For these people who have no real religious background, we teach to their level and promise them that a faith in God makes a difference in our life. A difference that is noticeable and positive. Once someone has experienced that difference, they no longer have to believe that it makes a difference because they have literally experienced it themselves.
Each of us has had experiences in our lives that we base our thoughts, decisions, and quite frankly our entire lives on. Things that we know to be true and faithful because we have experienced them for ourselves. But we can't know something is true until we first exercise the faith necessary to try. I would encourage each of you to reflect on what those experiences are that are the building blocks of your life and make a goal to plant a new seed of faith to experiment with.
Gain a testimony of one more thing this week.
Love,
Elder Cummings
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