Dear Everyone,
This has been a fast
week one! Elder Burton is great, we're excited about this companionship
and this upcoming transfer! It's going to be a busy one with a lot of
stuff going on. We have Zone Conferences this week, as well as a
meeting with a visiting Apostle, we have Thanksgiving, the Christmas
party, departing missionary day, and some other stuff coming up in the
near future as well. So that'll be good. We also are going to have to
squeeze in some time for missionary work!
We found a few people last night, and we're excited to
go back and start teaching. And we had one of the best turnouts at
church that I've had on my mission, so that's good too!
I'm pretty short on email time, and I'm not exactly sure what to write about.
One
of our investigators, Carrie, has made a lot of progress recently. She
has been reading the Book of Mormon consistently, and is around 1 Nephi
10 last we checked. Chapter 4 threw her for a loop she said haha, and
she is still working through that. We had a whole lesson almost devoted
to addressing her concern, and afterwards she still seemed pretty
reluctant to continue. But she texted her ward friends later, (who in
turn texted us) to let us know that she decided that she had no reason
to doubt what Elder Burton and I told her, which is that if she
continues reading prayerfully, she will find more and more answers and
have her concerns resolved over time.
Something I've been thinking about recently is the sequence of
chapters in the Book of Mormon. Although in some ways it follows, it
definitely is not in "Chronological Order" Otherwise we'd be beginning
with the book of Ether obviously. And the "abridgers notes" and things
like the whole book "Words of Mormon" would be stuck towards the end and
whatnot. It stands to reason therefore, when we consider the purposes
of the book of Mormon (1 nephi 6:4-6) that it is not in chronological
order, but in "Conversion Order." The Lord certainly didn't make any
mistakes in putting chapter 4 so close to the beginning.
Well my time is almost up, sorry this was short! Talk to y'all next week! (my companion is from Texas, so I can say that.)
Love,
Elder Lonas.
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