Dear family and friends,

 

Well it sounds like this last week has been pretty good for all of you, some thunderstorms and stuff like that but all and all a good time. It also sounds like this month is going to be a pretty busy one with all the stuff that is going on for you all back home. With all the weddings and with Christmas and everything, its going to be busy but super fun for you all. Well this week was a great week for me, we have been working a lot. We have basically been knocking doors like crazy trying to find people and we found this one guy on Friday his name is Elias, we contacted him a couple days earlier and he told us to come back and teach him. So we went and taught him and he is actually a really smart guy he is just finishing his schooling and is going to become a civil engineer. Well when we started sharing with him he asked us why there are so many churches in the world today when there is only one God. So we explained all of the restoration right then and there, and about the apostasy and how all the  other churches got started and then how Christ restored his same church in these last days to the prophet Joseph Smith. The spirit was very strong in the lesson and he said wow that makes sense about all the other churches but that God should only have one true church one the earth. We told him that if he truly wants to know if these things are true then he needs to pray and ask God and that He will answer his question so I have been praying for that a lot lately. Also something really cool that happened this week was, like I said, we are knocking a lot of doors these days trying to find people to teach. And a lot of the people that have been listening to us all have to work on Sundays and haven't gained enough faith yet to quit their jobs and look for another one. So yesterday at church we weren't expecting to have any investigators there because we had been inviting a lot of people there and they had been telling us that they couldn't go. But for some reason in my prayers I kept asking for it, that some one, anyone of our investigators  could show up for church on Sunday, well church started and nobody had showed up and I just thought to myself, well maybe next week. And then about 20 minutes into church a guy that we had taught 2 weeks before, that didn't seem really interested when we shared with him, showed up. It was totally unexpected, i was very surprised and then I remembered that it was a answer to our prayers. I truly believe that God hears and answers our prayers and that if we seek we shall find and if we knock it shall be opened unto us. So I was very grateful for the Lord for listening to our prayers . Well as I was sitting in church yesterday something kind of just hit me, it has hit me before, but this time it was completely clear and seemed so easy. Right now in the world there are a lot of bad things and a lot of wickedness, and a lot of ways to get caught up in Satan's traps. Like Alma says we know that wickedness never was happiness, so i was thinking if we want to be happy then we have to be righteous. How are we righteous? It is by keeping all the commandments of God. Think how much the world would change if everybody in this world decided right now to keep the commandments of God, it would be completely different but we know that it is not like that. We also have no power over what other people in this world do but we do have power over what we do. Think if each one of us made a conscious effort to obey all the commandments, to be honest in all things, and to love one of another how much of a difference we could make, and how many blessing we would receive. Like the Lord says countless times in the Book of Mormon if we keep his commandments we will prosper if we don't, we wont. He also says if ye love me, Keep my commandments, so if we love God then we will keep His commandments and when we keeps his commandments we receive the blessings. So basically it all goes back to the primary song keep the commandments in this there is safety in this there is peace. When we do what God wants us to do we have safety and peace and the blessings, when we don't, we don't have any promises. Basically when we look at it in the eternal scheme if we obey the commandments and help others to understand them then we don't have to worry about anything else, because in the eternal scheme nothing else matters. But anyways this week has been a great week for me I am learning a lot these days and trying to be a little bit better everyday. Anyways I love you all and I hope you have a good week this week.

 

Elder Wadman