Well this week has been pretty good. Here is a cool
experience:
I was on a workover here in Southend with Elder Hansen.
He came over from Grays. We were having a pretty rubbish day and all of our
appointments dropped us. But our very last appointment at 8 o’clock was a
Lithuanian family called the Juchmakovs. They are a part-member family. The mom is a member. Her name is Valdona and she is a really cool
lady. Her son is a member, his name is
Paulus and he is 15, and her daughter is a less active member named Greta. Her
husband, Serge, is not a member and we have never had a good lesson with him.
So Elder Hansen and I go there and are eating dinner and
are just having a good time. I didn’t really know what lesson we were going to
share but I felt like we should talk about eternal families, which is a super
weird subject, because Serge doesn’t like the church, and he isn’t even a
member. But I really felt like we should
and so we started to talk about it.
We started talking about how important families are and
how cool it is we can be with them through the eternities. Valdona asked Serge if he wanted to be in an
eternal family and he said yes, which was cool. Then we started talking about
how we know we can have these families because of the restoration. Then Serge
asked, "How do you know that he (Joseph Smith) was telling the truth, and
that this is the true church?" I was absolutely awestruck. This guy usually doesn’t say a word and just
sits there and looks grumpy. But I bore
testimony to him that it was true, and that he can know for himself through
prayer. Then Elder Hansen bore testimony
of it, and then Valdona bore testimony of it! By the time she was finished
their whole family was in tears and we said to Serge that he is feeling the
spirit, and he was way stoked!
It was a pretty amazing lesson.
In other news, transfers are this week, which is pretty exciting! I really feel close to this ward and I don’t
really want to leave. We will see.
Well I am reading the Book of Mormon again. Right now I
think I am in Alma 30. I don’t even
think I can describe how good I feel when I read it. It is truly inspired work.
Well I hope to hear from you all very soon. I love you all and you are in my prayers.
Christianus Purdius
