Do Something to Build Your Testimony

This week has been very good. We don't really have any more new investigators, but hopefully we will have some awesome new ones this week. We are going tonight to go teach an awesome guy name Matthew we met on the street last week. We also met some really cool people on Saturday--we set up a stall in the city centre with loads of books and pamphlets and stuff. It was way awesome. I made this printouts about how the book of Mormon answers the questions of the soul.  Definitely made a lot more people aware of the fact that we are here and who we are, although we didn't get any return appointments really. Hopefully we will see more fruits as we continue to do it the next few weeks.

Also, our investigator Alex came and helped us out a ton. He place like 5 copies of The Book of Mormon. No one could say no to him because he is such a cute, twelve year old kid. The plan right now is to baptize him on his 13th birthday, the first of November.  Alex prayed and got his answer that he should come to church instead of playing rugby games, but upon discussing it with his rugby friends he was peer pressured into the compromise of switching off weeks between church and rugby. Dang. But he's going to interview with the Bishop soon and hopefully it will work out well. Tonight we will be setting goals with his mum Fran for quitting smoking and probably will give her a blessing. It will be awesome.

Somehow, this transfer is almost over. They keep going by faster and faster. It means my boy Elder Thurgood is almost halfway done being trained and will be starting to do a lot more soon hopefully.

Oh, one more awesome experience...We have started to work with this less active guy named Elliot and we are teaching him the lessons. He came to church this week. In the gospel principles class he shared with the class how he had sort of lost faith in the church but when we came and taught him and invited him to pray to know the truth, he was able to pray and feel the spirit telling him the truth of the things that we share. It was so awesome. He is 23 so definitely he could still serve a mission, so we hope to be able to work with him more and get him on track for that! I encourage you all to do something to build your testimony, something to feel the spirit. Probably the easiest way to do that is to share some part of your testimony with someone else. If you can't do it to someone who is not a member of the church, just share some of your testimony with your family member or something. If done in the right setting, I promise it will bring the spirit, and you will feel awesome. Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Poulsen