Happy Valentine's day everyone! I know that no matter what you're going through our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ will always love us. They are there for us!
This week was an interesting one. We ended up going up to Omaha on Wednesday for an MLC mission meeting, and then Thursday we had exchanges in Omaha as well! It was super fun because I got to go with Elder Powell, one of my favorite past companions. We found this lady named Tammy and had a super powerful lesson with her where we were able to testify to her that despite her challenges and her anger towards God, He still loved her and would be there for her.
We also had a super cool lesson with our friend Gauri! We hopped on the video call and she decided that her friend Pallavi should learn more too, so we taught both of them the Plan of Salvation. It was super cool, especially since Gauri has lost multiple family members in the last year, and we were able to bring a lot of peace and closure to her. She was going to come to church, but ended up having some health challenges that kept her back.
We also found this guy on campus named Levi. He gave us his number and said we could call, but we honestly didn't expect him to answer. But he did, and he really opened up to us about his religious background and we were able to teach him the restoration of the Gospel and be with him for his first prayer ever! It was super sweet and he definitely wants to learn more.
And then we had this suuuper long lesson with this guy named Igor. He is a youth minister and knows the Bible really well, but is open to the thought of more revelation. He had so many questions and it was really kind of all over the place, but we were able to bring sense to all his questions except one, and we will look into that one a little more and get back to him. He asked us if God just chose certain people who could receive spiritual witnesses about the Book of Mormon and didn't choose others, but we assured him that he doesn't. He gives a witness to all with a sincere heart and real intent. We told him that real intent meant that he would have to be ready to leave his ministry and be baptized if he wanted to receive a witness and he told us that he was willing to have real intent as he asks God!
Moroni teaches us, "But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him." So on valentine's week I want to invite you all to study the charity section of Preach My Gospel and strive to truly exercise charity in all you do this week. I'll attach a link. Anyways love you all, have a great week!
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missionary-service/how-do-i-develop-christlike-attributes?lang=eng
-Elder Olsen
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