3 Nephi 27:12-15

(Aldste Cummings)

Tjenare,

This week was rather chill. A lot of things we had scheduled were canceled or rescheduled for the next week. What can you do, it's just how it goes sometimes.

We had a good week anyway, though. The first half was cold and rainy but it feels like things are starting to warm up now again. Although it just rained like half an hour ago so I might be eating my words here in a day or two.

Something fun was that I went on exchanges to a city south of us called Helsingborg to be with my former companion, Elder Nelson! It was so fun to be back together. It didn't even feel like anything at changed.

One evening while Elder Seely and I were knocking doors, this woman opened and politely said that she was Christian but wasn't interested in learning more about other churches, I then asked "How long have you been Christian?" and she threw open the door and yelled at us to show her ID or she was going to call the police and we were a little confused as to what it was she wanted us to show her--I thought maybe, just maybe, this was going to be the first and only time on my mission I would have to show someone my ministerial certificate but I didn't even have it on me--and she made us show anything with our name and picture on it so I gave her my New Jersey driver's license and she asked me questions about how long I had lived in Sweden and why and such and then she just gave it back to me and angrily told us to leave the premises or she would call the police. It was wild. She went from 0 to 100 right quick.

This week, we taught a lesson to a Christian man. It started going pretty well, but as we got deeper in, we began to realize that maybe he didn't know as much about Jesus Christ as he thought. We asked him about what he believes about Christ and he answered that after having read the Bible and other literature about Jesus, he had come to the conclusion that Christ was an alcoholic because he drank so much wine, that he did not understand the Law of Moses because he preached conflicting doctrine, that although he was the Son of God, he was not able to save himself from the mobs that arrested and later condemned him, that he did not speak up to Pilate and Herod because he didn't want to try to defend himself against the charges because he was too burned out from all of the responsibility of being the King of the Jews and the Son of God and he wanted to die to escape the stress, and that he didn't actually die but boogied on over to India instead after visiting his apostles a little bit.

"Just det."

I'm so thankful for the Book of Mormon's unequivocal witness of Jesus Christ's role as our Lawgiver, Savior, and as the Son of the Living God. Listening to this man who somehow could reason his conclusions with the doctrine in the Bible made me realize how much the Book of Mormon clarifies about the Savior's life and mission. It really is the keystone of my testimony and understanding of the Savior. What a book, I love it and the enlightening power it has in my life. I encourage you all to read and explore it and apply its teachings.

Love,

Äldste Cummings

1. I knit that.

2. That's one sleepy cowgirl.

3.That's one sad cowgirl.