Hej allihopa!
Well, I just got off a video call with my parents. It was
awesome but felt kinda weird. We said more in 15 minutes than we could have
emailed in 4 weeks.
For those of you who don't know, there was a recent change
in missionary communication abilities. We now can call our families any given
Monday rather than specifically Christmas and Mothers' Day. Unfortunately, this
applies to only our families so most of you still have to wait to see my
radiant smile until we meet again.
This week we visited a member family that is recently
beginning to come back to church. They have a 9 year-old son who hasn't been
baptized yet and they like having us over to teach him about the Gospel. Last
week we figured out that the key to the kid's heart was English. He was a little
shy at first but soon enough we got him chatting and joking with us in English.
His English is actually incredibly impressive. In our conversation the other
day he used the word "aggressive." Again, incredibly impressive.
Anyway, we invited him to be baptized this week and his only
complaint was that we set the date too far in the future. We had to convince
him that he needed the time in order to be ready but we appreciated the
enthusiasm!
It's been really warm the past week. Some of the snow even
started to melt! I still haven't seen the grass though. I don't think I ever
will see the grass in Boden.
Due to the warmth, the usually powdery snow was wet and
moldable. This led to Elder Mathias and I playing Obiwan v. Anakin as he stood
at the bottom of a MASSIVE snow pile in snow up to his waist and tried to fight
his way up while I stood at the top and pelted him with snowballs while
repeatedly verbally affirming my possession of the high ground. We took a
video. Good content.
We had a cool experience this week while knocking doors. A
woman opened to us and immediately said she wasn't interested in what we had to
say. Elder Mathias boldly asked her a question or two more to keep the
conversation alive which gave us an opportunity to explain what it was we were
doing. In response to her assertion that she's not interested because she's a
"normal" Christian, we testified of the joy of the Restored Gospel
and how it helps us strengthen our faith in Christ. We then said to her,
"Now that you understand our purpose a little better, could we come back
another day and share our message with you?" To which she smiled kindly
and responded with "Yes, actually. That sounds very nice."
Some people are afraid or reject what we have because they
don't know anything about it. They kling to what they think they know without
opening up to experience it for themselves. But the more they open their hearts
to learn, the more they will find that the message of the Restored Gospel is
anything but fearsome or worthy of rejection.
Have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Cummings
(Sorry, no pictures this week)
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