Hello everyone!

How are all you lovely people doing?

This week was a little bit slower but that’s okay, that definitely happens sometimes and if missionary work was easy then maybe it wouldn’t stretch our faith, right?

For those who have emailed me personally and I haven’t responded, it’s not because I don’t want to talk to you but just because of limited time we have to email, so it may take a bit but I will do my best to get to you and at least respond shortly!

We had a lot of lessons planned for this week, which members were going to accompany us to, (and drive us to, for that matter) but almost every single one of them fell through. Pretty much the same thing happened to the rest of our district, as well. We all got shined a bunch of times.

No new pictures, how bout a throwback… 🙂

One really awesome experience we had was while knocking on an avenue called Highland. Brad, a man in his 30’s was walking down the sidewalk looking down, listening to music. We walked up and stopped and talked to him. (We had felt it right to be knocking on this street but as we were knocking, we were finding almost no interest.) As it turns out, this man used to be very against God, but made a complete turnaround and had become very close to him, but many things happened in his life causing him to be homeless and for family to leave him, and he lately had even been considering suicide. He said that we pulled him out of a depression by talking to him, and he recognized who we were, and asked for “One of those Mormon books.” So we gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and our number and later on in the day, he called and he had read quite a lot out of it and asked questions, and asked for a verse that would help him understand why God took his brother, so I brought him to Alma 14. Even if he does not continue to learn or to be baptized a member of our church, I believe we have accomplished God’s purpose in this thing, to let this man know God is still looking out for him, even though it may not seem like it sometimes.

It’s been hard not having a car a week at a time, but I can’t complain because we have so much provided for us, and there are SO many people out there who not only don’t have a car, but also don’t have necessities of life. Brothers and Sisters, all I ask is that you do what you can to influence someone for the better. Yeah, a smile is awesome and of course spreads positivity, but I challenge you to take it a step further.

I truly do love you all and I hope these emails continue to find you safe and happy, and I leave my simple testimony that Christ is our Savior, and the Son of God, and do so in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Sincerely,

Elder Breinholt

1. No new pictures, how bout a throwback… 🙂