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Remember how I told you all about Jesse? Well this week started off with him asking
for a blessing of health. He asked me to
do it and in the blessing I was prompted to tell him that the Lord needs him as
a worthy priesthood holder right now, and some other stuff. Well afterwards he was crying, and long story
short, I asked him what he has to do to be worthy? He told us of how he had to quit smoking weed
and come back to church. So we set some
plans to do that. Well the next day he
had to go to the hospital. When we went
to see him, he said he is having kidney problems so not only will he give up
smoking to be better spiritually, but also physically. Then Sunday morning we went and got him for
conference. Well let me tell you, he had to be there! First he sat down and just listening to the
music and feeling the spirit really affected him. I think I saw him go through
the whole repentance process right there next to me!
Then after some counseling and talking things through,
Conference started. During Eyrings talk, he leaned over to me and said "I
think I want to get the Melchizedek Priesthood now." Let me tell you, it was magical to hear him
say that! Then after conference, he was
telling everyone about how he has changed and wants to get the priesthood and
go to the temple and get his patriarchal blessing. Super rad!
And afterwards he told us about how he used to be chained down by his
drugs, but now he feels like he has been set free. And you can tell! He used to be all depressed and now he is
always happy and smiling. Man, I love
being a missionary!
O.K. General Conference... they crushed it this year! Well I thought Uchtdorf looked a little sad
the first session but he came back strong.
Anyways, the MVP award goes to President Eyring. He just shredded it! Elder Holland’s talk about the poor was super
good too. Dad will you send me a Gen Con
magazine when they come out? So I can
mark it up and stuff.
This week we got to see Meet the Mormons. It was so good! The beginning is super funny and then all of
the peoples stories make Mormons look like the coolest people in the world!
(Especially the coach and the fighter and the humanitarian).
I also got to go on an exchange up to the city of Victoria. It’s
like the big city around here but it’s about the size of Aliso Viejo, or
smaller. But when I was there we got to
work in Christ's Kitchen, which feeds the homeless everyday. I think its super funny that there the
missionaries’ job is to serve the ice tea, haha. But it was super fun to be
able to talk to a bunch of impoverished and homeless people and to hear their
stories.
Then that night we went to a Pentecostal church. It was pretty sweet. We went because an investigator invited
us. Well we got there and his brother
and sister were just jamming out, she on the keyboard and singing the alabanzas
and him on the drums. It was nutty for
sure! And lucky us, they had the
alabanza lyrics on the screen so we could sing and praise along. Then afterwards, the investigator's little brother
who is 18 gave a super good sermon on love.
Then after some more alabanza-ing (praising), it ended and we got to
talk to the investigator and his brothers and sister for half an hour about
different things in our church vs. theirs.
It was good in that we didn’t argue over anything, which usually happens
when talking to Pentecostals. Plus, at
the beginning, the pastor said to give us a welcome and everybody in the
whole congregation came and shook our hands.
It made me feel special for sure!
Elder Lund
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