Hello my beloved family and friends!

Many great things happened this week and I experienced a lot of tender mercies of the Lord. 🙂

Up to the beginning of last week, we had practically no investigators. Lesson after lesson after lesson had fallen through, but this week, things just seemed to work out and go according to our hopes, even if not necessarily exactly according to plan.

One of my favorite meals I’ve ever had – Greatest Salad Ever

We picked up five new investigators and two of them were set on coming to church yesterday. As it turned out they weren’t able to come because of other circumstances, but we will get them there. What matters is that these amazing people are taking steps in coming closer to Christ and it’s such a blessing to be a part of that. We encountered two younger men who are staying with a member here temporarily. They are self proclaimed missionaries, traveling the country to spread what they believe about God and reality. As we talked, at first I felt that maybe I have not been doing my best, or that there are better ways to go about spreading the Gospel than the way that we do it, but I have been pondering, praying and studying about this; my conclusion is that it is good, and even necessary that there are those who simply go around spreading the word, but that is not necessarily the calling Elder Whitesides and I have right now. We are here to bring others unto Christ through faith, repentance, baptism by proper authority (John 3:7 ; Ephesians 4:5), and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 19: 1-6). We aid people in doing this and we’re there every step of the way. Satan tries to get in the way of this beautiful work, and he does create circumstances from which people’s path to God’s ordinances are blocked. But brothers and sisters I am grateful for opposition. I’m grateful for the pain we go through and endure because without it we never would be able to understand true joy, peace, and happiness.

Elder Whitesides chillin’

If you guys could include a few people in prayer, I know it would help them:

Pat, Sue, and Robert – a lovely family, and Pat is now in hospice. It’s been hard on the others.
Angus – Believes in the message of the Restoration, so Satan is trying to pull harder than before.
Patrice – Has an awesome young family and wants to come back to God.

This week we have a half mission P Day which is going to be awesome and if I don’t take tons of pictures there you all have the right to be very mad at me. 🙂 But yeah I didn’t take a lot this week so, sorry…

Love you all so much! Stay strong! Have a wonderful week!

Elder Breinholt