"We had our first TRC teaching thing yesterday and the guy we had we had already taught before in a big room with like 80 missionaries and man did he not budge at all. so when me and my companion Elder Beus found out we had him again and we kinda basically just wanted to give up on life haha like in the big room, he is basically a STONE. he has no feelings or anything else. like Elder McKinley and Elder Hale who share rooms with us but aren't in our district but our in our Zone and are going to Ventura didn't even get into the room for 10 minutes cause the guy was a stone so they were teaching him in the hall way. They got in and it still got worse!!! Elder McKinley even said he asked the guy if he wanted happiness and the guy who was being three-jay, (his nickname) just looked them up in the eye and said "no.' and told them he didn't want them back for another appointment when they asked why he said it was all pointless. But me and elder Beus got him to immediately let us into the room and we started talking to him. It was slowly going downhill and then he asked why we were even there and I took a hold of the spirit and told him it is because we are spiritual brothers and that I feel happiness from this and I want to share the happiness from this true gospel with everyone because we are all brothers and sisters and oh MAN the spirit was in that room!!! being here for the first week this gospel really does make me happy!! I LOVE it!! And then 3-j talked about how his dad died and how he missed him and he told him he loved him for the last and first time on his death bed and then I told him I know EXACTLY how he feels. I told him that Grandpa died last year the week after prom. That growing up as a little kid I always thought Teancum, Helamen, or captain Moroni were my heroes but around 5th grade iIrealized that Grandpa was. (I started crying at this point because I miss him) and I told him that I cannot recall one time we grandpa said he loved me but I know he did cause fathers and men usually don't show they love you through their words but through their actions. that I could tell because EVERYTHING that Grandpa did was for our family; that there was no explanation for why he died and that we didn't even get to say our goodbyes. Then he said how much time it took out of his life because he had to spend some Friday nights at the hospital to watch his dad and then I told him about how we spent like a year spending weeks sleeping over at grandmas house so I knew how he felt (I was still crying) and I bore testimony (with all the spirit that I had within me) of the afterlife and through Christ he can return to heaven and live with his whole family. Then my companion shared about how his dad died of Cancer when Elder Beus was 9 and his dad leaned up to him and said "Do better then me son" and we got another appointment tomorrow with him. I love this gospel and it brings me happiness!! Tell Lizzi this place is great and not to be scared!!!"
Me with my companion Elder Beus
"Today we did a taught a guy in TRC . The background is that someone referred them to us and I guess the priority for the people to volunteer to be actors here is that they actually need to be non-members and sign up or they can be converts, but they have to have been members for under a year. I bore my testimony to him on the Book of Mormon and then he'd ask questions about our church and he was acting all confused (idk if he really was) and he didn't purposefully make it hard he was just asking tons of questions. I bore my testimony to him and about the scriptures and if those were true then that means Joseph Smith was a prophet. Then he said that he believed me because he could see I know everything that i was bearing witness was true is true because he could see it in my eyes and then he said he would read the Book of Mormon and pray about it too. We taught him how to pray and we got him to say the closing prayer. I don't know if he was a member or not but he sure does know about religions. It was a cool experience."
This is my district (district 64 C)
The 3 of us in my district who are going to Ventura
This is district A, my district and an older district in our zone that already left but they were all called to the Salt Lake Mission
This will be Kieson's Last day in the MTC then real mission life will begin. We are so proud of Him and the choice he is making to serve His Heavenly Father for the the next to years. Our prayers are with him and invite you to add yours to ours. Good luck Elder Stewart!
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