Hello!
I mentioned last week that my goal of this transfer is to improve my teaching abilities, so I've been praying a lot for help in doing that. One week later I'm here to tell you that the Lord really does hear our prayers. We recently started teaching our neighbor Vern who has been amazing to teach! But he has so many really good questions, he's a real hoosier (Meaning someone who just talks at you a lot. It also means a resident of Indiana, so maybe they all just talk a lot and that's where it comes from. No one in Ohio knows this slang though, so maybe it's just something my mission does 
) so we hardly get a word in, and he doesn't seem to fully understand us when we try to answer his questions. So yeah, my teaching skills are really being put to the test. Don't pray for something unless you're really sure you want it!
We had an amazing lesson with Vern the other day where we tried to teach The Plan of Salvation but only got halfway through premortal life (cause he's a hoosier like I said). But at the end he prayed out loud for the first time in his life and it was the most beautiful prayer! He thanked God for us and promised in his prayer that he would come to church, which was a big deal because he's really lazy and has been going back and forth for the last month on whether or not he'd come to church sometime. It bought both Sister Hines and I almost to tears.
AND THEN HE CAME TO CHURCH THE NEXT SUNDAY! When we went to the Elders Quorum room to meet him at the end of church, all the men came out before him and kept saying they liked him and kept making comments about how outspoken he was and that he definitely wasn't shy. And then a brother in the ward came up and told us "Well, we taught him the first two lessons for you!".... Apparently he spoke up about his questions and the man giving the lesson completely changed his lesson plan to let everyone help answer his questions. It sounded like it was a really fun sunday for them. I was just glad they were happy with it and not upset with us for bringing someone who took over the class
I've been studying The Plan of Salvation a lot recently because a lot of his questions are based around it and I've been reminded of how grateful I am for the knowledge we have. So many people wonder about so many deep questions that they don't know the answers to. I'm so grateful that The Book of Mormon can answer so many questions of the soul. In fact, I'll include in my pictures a picture of a question sheet we found with Book of Mormon scriptures to answer common questions in case any of you would like to find some of these answers. And if I have any friends who don't have a copy of The Book of Mormon but would like one, I'd be more than happy to send you one if you just ask :)
HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK!
*I'd like to begin by saying that I'm really not trying to make any of you do my job for me. I've already found answers to these questions, I promise*
Vern asks us five main questions. Choose one of his five questions and decide how you would answer it. Also find one or two scriptures from both The Book of Mormon and the Bible to back up your explanation. If you'd like to send me your scriptures or answer please feel free! But otherwise, just have fun finding your own way of answering.
1. Why does God allow evil and suffering?
2. What is the premortal life? Does the Bible talk about that?
3. What's the spirit world? Does the Bible talk about that too?
4. If there are so many different non-christian religions in the world, how can we truly come to know who Christ is and know that he is our Savior?
5. Why are there so many different churches?
Next week I'll send my list of scriptures that answer them and you can add them to your list or see how many of the same we got or what ones you got that I missed!
*We went to a recipe group this week because we helped set up and the member who did the group invited a bunch of members and non members as a very casual way of doing missionary work. So we got a whole thanksgiving feast because that was the theme. Best dinner ever!
*A cute picture of Christ I found on Facebook :)
*Our awesome zone at zone conference
*Where to find answers to our questions in The Book of Mormon!
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