Hello Everyone!

I’m here serving in Grand Rapids now with Elder Laaksonen! We’re having lots of fun and work very well together!

One of the things I am enjoying the most is how we do our best to talk to everyone we see. When we talk with people, it’s not always a matter of pushing the book of Mormon on them or trying to get them to church, but we are here to simply bring people closer to Christ. Some people are ready to take steps toward baptism, and some are not. So, sometimes all we can or should do for people at certain times is to teach them how they can pray and get answers, or overcome depression through Christ’s Atonement, etc.

Grand Rapids is a great place, and I’m enjoying many of the tender mercies of the Lord! For example, we had church yesterday, and who was there? Two of the Karn sisters from the Oscoda branch! I spoke with them after sacrament and asked about Rob (the guy I baptized back in Oscoda) and it turns out he is still doing great! He bears his testimony each month, and his wife has started coming to church with him! It’s so wonderful, and I’m grateful to have been able to take a part in seeing his conversion. All it takes for people to progress immensely, is to connect them to heaven. Not necessarily to the scriptures, not to us, not to anything in or of the world, but to God. If you, or I, or anyone make that connection, there’s no stopping from achieving that which you wish to accomplish.

I’m going to miss all the wonderful people in Battle Creek! It was a short chapter of my life but I learned much and I’ll miss my “son” Elder Whitesides but he needs to go on to bigger and better things! 🙂

Our district was super tight, but I hope this one can be, too!

Love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

Elder Breinholt