Missionary Work

So the missionary work has still been a bit rough here. It seems like we just work and work and work and nothing much happens. No one who we are working with was able to make it to church (or chose not to). We have been blessed to have a few new investigators this week though. They are all quite a long shot at this point, but I guess we just really need to have the faith that the Lord can change their hearts.

One day this week we went a bit crazy and we made 78 cookies and left plates of them with cool notes and gave them out to 8 members/member families. We will probably do another round this week to reach out to more members. Giving service to people can be a great way to soften their hearts and to help them be more receptive to the Gospel and/or invitations to share the Gospel. We'll see if we get some really cool results from this. The problem is that people here are generally quite prideful and won't accept our invitations to help them. So I'm glad we figured out a good way to do it without them even having to ask. Its almost like we're tricking them.

I have recently been doing a lot of studying about the atonement. Oh my, it is so wonderful and fantastic. I love it. Not only does it give the power for us to be resurrected and forgiven of our sins, it gives us the power to be healed, and enables us to continually become a better person. It is incomprehensible, but it is also absolutely amazing. I hope we can all do a better job of making use of it in our lives.

Love,

Elder Seth Poulsen