Unfortunately
we really haven't been able to get in contact with Ted or Jordyn this
week but we have been able to do a lot of service, and we have had some
really good experiences talking to people on the street. One really cool
experience with talking to people on the street that I had this week
was talking to a guy as we came out of Wal-Mart. We came out and I
started talking to him and asking him if I could give him any help (he
only had one arm) he said no, and then I asked him if he had ever talked
to missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
He replied that he had but that he was a born-again Christian and wasn't
really interested, I then asked him if he and ever just wondered what
makes us different from everyone else, or why we do what we do as
missionaries. He replied that no he hadn't, so I began to explain to him
why and taught the message of the restoration to him, after he heard
the account of the First Vision he began to cry, and said "If only I
could know that that really happened." I told him that he could and that
the Lord has given us a way to know if it is true, and it is through
the Book of Mormon, and reading it and praying to know if it is true, I
explained what it was and how it has blessed me in my life and bore
testimony of the truth of it. I pulled out a copy and gave it to him,
and he couldn't believe that I was just giving them away, he gladly
accepted it. Unfortunately he doesn't live in my area, so I forwarded
his info to the missionaries that cover where he lives.
The really cool experience we had doing service: On Wednesday a Lady who used to live in our ward
and
is a Part-Member family called us and asked if we could help her move
some stuff from one storage unit to another. We agreed to do so. We had a
great experience getting to know her mom who is not a member, and
invited her to take the missionary lessons from Spanish missionaries,
and she accepted. Then her Daughter who is the member pulled out this
case from the storage unit and gave it to me and said she wanted me to
have it, It was a brand new Violin, she bought it several years ago, and
had never played it and it was just sitting there, one of the strings
broke when she first got it. I told her that I couldn't ever accept a
gift like that. She insisted on giving it to me, so now I have a brand
new Violin, I don't even know how to play Violin. I am not sure what to
do with it, but I guess I'll have to figure something out.
We get to go to the temple tomorrow and I am so excited!
I love Y'all
Elder Bangerter
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