God would provide a way for him to follow a commandment

January 28, 2013

Dear Family,

This week was good, a little slow but good.  One downer though is that Elder Spohn got sick and then he got me sick so we are both a little miserable because we don't have our moms, haha.  He is pretty much over his cold but I think mine is still in full force.  I have been using the Netti-pot and Sudafed has been my friend.  

On Wednesday we had a zone training meeting were we taught on the Book of Mormon and the foreordination of our calling.  We used Alma 13:1-7 as a basis of the foreordination of our calling. Everything fell apart when it came time for the training.  We couldn't find a projector to play our power point, Elder Spohn locked the keys in the family history center where I had all my stuff; backpack, Scriptures, etc.  However, with all that, we still managed to get through it.  I wrote the Powerpoint presentation out on the board and we used the TV to show the video that we had.  We spent the first part of the training talking about rules and obedience.  

After our training we went to the Chinese buffet which was gross but it was fun to talk to everyone.  (I don't like Chinese food really).  Afterwards, we had a blitz with the Gettysburg Elders.  I was with Elder Munoz and we did some much needed Spanish work.  We taught a guy named Pablo about the restoration and the Book of Mormon.  Elder Munoz is a really good people person and the Spanish people love him. After that, we tracted the streets in the bitter cold.  It was freezing but the last door we knocked that night was some people from Kazakhstan.  We knocked on the door and they let us right in but they didn't speak English at all.  They motioned for us to sit down, so we did, and then they started giving us bread, tea, cold chicken stuff with salt on it and a hostess cupcake.  We couldn't communicate with them so the guy had us use his phone translator then we realized that there is a returned missionary living in the area who served in Russia.  We called him and he was able to translate for us.  They didn't want anything to do with the Book of Mormon but it was a really cool experience and they were very humble and loving.  They even had gold teeth!  

On Friday we saw Michael and talked about his goals in life.  He brought up his concern about him and Gina living together.  He told us that he doesn't see how it would work for them to live in separate houses now that they have already lived together.  We told him that God would provide a way for him to follow a commandment.  That answer stumped him and got him thinking.  He then said that is a good point and I will have to bring it up with Gina.  He knows it's true he just needs to act on it!

On Sunday we had another lesson with Pablo.  I taught about 3 Nephi 11 and we talked about the apostasy.  We then ended by watching the Joseph Smith DVD which you could tell was very interesting to him.  He is really receptive and nice and I hope that he is the reason I was called to speak Spanish.  

All our other investigators are doing well except Linda.  She got ‘Antied’ and dropped us.  

Love you Family!!!!

Elder Mouritsen