Hey everyone!
Hope
you have been doing well. This week has been good. I hope you all
enjoyed conference. I sure did. One of my favorite talks was about how
our choices lead to where we will end up. I
like that. And if you don't know where you want to go, you will end up
there. But we all know where we want to go. And we know what we need to
do to get there. And I thought that was really cool. We can break it
down so simply. And take it one choice at a time. And I like that. And
I also like that we get credit for trying. When we try we are noted for
our effort. Those are some of the things I really liked about
conference.
This
week we had a lesson with this lady named Florie. We meet with her
every week. And she seemed to be progressing. She hadn't been to church
yet, but she loves us. She loves learning. And she likes the Book of
Mormon. Anyways on Wednesday some stuff came up in the lesson that was
kinda frustrating. And it really makes her mad. She has some family that
are members and she hears about some stereo types. And she basically
made her whole judgement of the church on the kind of stereo
types of Mormons girls. You know the ones, that they get married and don't finish school and have no job and stuff.
And she has heard some anti stuff. So now she hates Joseph Smith.
And that really makes her angry and she just has a couple things that
now make her hate the church. And now she told us that she promised herself she
would never join. And that even if Jesus Christ himself came to her and
told her that the Mormons were His church on the earth she would say No Lord. I will not follow you. And it is really frustrating. Because she loves
us. She feels the spirit when we come. She just has her head convinced
that we are so wrong. And she won't even ask. We told her hey. This is
Jesus Christ's church. Ask Him. And she is like no. I won't. And it is
just sad. But she has her agency. And that is something that we all fought
for in the war in heaven. And we have to respect that. And she is still a
daughter of God. And a lost sheep. We will do our best. To help her
feel the spirit. It is just hard.
I love this mission. I am doing great! I hope you are all doing well
Love, Elder Bigelow
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