General Conference

This week was pretty good. I really enjoyed being able to tell people who I met on the street, "there is a prophet on earth today...and he is speaking this weekend!" Hopefully this week I'll be able to say to people, "there is a prophet on earth today...and last weekend he told us about how we should seek to follow the example of Jesus Christ in everything that we do..." Maybe it will actually work sometime.

We met some cool people this week for sure, and were able to teach a few of them. Again, however, we've been stuck at mostly only one lesson for each person, and then they don't go anywhere (yet--there's always the possibility that they'll remember us in the future, of course).

Here's a cool story for you: a few weeks ago my companion and I knocked on a lady's door and she told us maybe we could come back sometime so that she could tell us all of the reasons that she would never join our church. She gave us times that would be best to stop by based on when her daughter was with her or not. We tried by again the next day, but I guess it wasn't a good time again. So we just went by another day and put a family proclamation leaflet through her door (most doors here have post slots on them where the post man (mail man) puts their post (mail) through in the morning--if you're not sure what I'm talking about, think of Harry Potter) with our phone number on it. A few days ago she sent us a text message thanking us for the leaflet and apologising for her rudeness. We will be meeting with her tomorrow morning, I sure hope it goes well.

Martin is progressing really nicely. He is awesome. We taught the Plan of Salvation to him this week and he asked a lot of thoughtful questions. He also told us that he is beginning to become more conscious now of when he is breaking the Word of Wisdom--pretty much his spiritual sensitivity is coming back after having been dulled by years of being disregarded. So that is pretty amazing, it is definitely a step in the right direction. He has reestablished habits of daily prayer and scripture study. 

I hope that you all have an amazing week!

Love,

Elder Seth Poulsen