Hey everyone!
This week was great! We started teaching Levi and Paul. Paul is less than receptive. Apparently he read the Bible with some Elders a few years ago and he just wanted to talk to us about Brigham Young and his 27 wives. However, Levi has been more receptive and we met with him 5 times this week! He said he would get baptized if he found out it was true and he has been continuing to read the Book of Mormon and praying about everything. So we had some members invite him over to their house for dinner on Friday night and we all had dinner and then Sister Hanninen and I started feeling uncomfortable. Levi is 31 he is recently divorced and has a 4 year old son named Gram. He has some brain damage from getting hit by a drunk driver when he was about 16. But we started feeling uncomfortable because it seemed like his motivation to meet with us wasn't purely Gospel related. We went over to his house one day and I asked him what he had liked about reading the Book of Mormon and his dad Paul cut in and said, "I will tell you what he likes about the Mormons, is the Sisters" So we were a little concerned and then we asked a member who came to a couple of lessons with us if she thought there was some other motivation for Levi meeting with us and she said, "I wasn't going to say anything but I think he might be interested in you" So needless to say we are going to try to send the Elders over to his house and see if he is still interested with them teaching him. We were disappointed because we finally found someone who is interested in the Gospel and kept inviting us back and now we aren't so sure. But we know there are more people prepared to hear from us and God is guiding us to them, we found another guy who might be interested by Levi but he is married so hopefully his motivation will be just from the Gospel haha.
This week I have been thinking a lot about how I need to develop more of an urgency and desire to share the Gospel with everyone. I know this work is SO important but I also know that I don't completely grasp just how important it is. In Alma 36 it talks about Alma's repentance processes and how he was saved because of the Mercy and Grace of God. The verse that really stuck out to me was 21, "Yea, I say unto you, my son, that there could be nothing so exquisite and so bitter as were my pains. Yea, and again I say unto you, my son, that on the other hand, there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy." I know that the joy he was talking about only comes from the Atonement of Christ and Alma was descired as one of the vilest of sinners. I know the Atonement is for everyone and the only way back to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is through the Gospel and the Atonement. We need to share this knowlede with EVERYONE or they are going to have to suffer even as Christ suffered which caused him so much pain that he bled from every pore. I don't want anyone to have to experience that. So I have been praying dilligently that I will have a stronger desire to share the Gospel with all the people I see. What makes a great missionary isn't a large amount of scripture knowledge (although it does help) its that desire and that sense of urgency to share it with everyone else.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Sister Lyman
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