March 21, 2011
People in Michigan like to say, "If you don't like the weather now, just wait ten minutes." For the most part, that's an exaggeration but it still gets the point across. The winter was pretty much all freezing, it would snow off and on and finally that's starting to slow down. But I heard last year it snowed here in May, so I guess you never know. But there were a few days in a row last week where there weren't any clouds out and you could actually see the sun. It's weird that it just didn't come out for a while. The temperature hit 59 I think one time, and it was great. It's back to raining and the sun's gone again, but those few days were sweet. It was enough to get pumped up. we were wearing short sleeve white shirts in the car, no sweaters. thas wassup. and we went over to detroit that day and the place was alive, a completely different detroit than the one i've seen so far. detroiters were out on their porches playing music and a whole bunch of people had come out of their winter hiding places and started roaming around. pretty cool. i guess that means the thugs will be out too though. stay tuned for some more detroit tales down the road.
As far as the work goes, there's always something exciting happening. My first day here in Roseville we went to do some grocery shopping, and when we were deciding on which cereals to buy a lady came up to us and said she wanted us to come over to her house sometime. Her family aren't members of the church, but apparently they lived in Salt Lake City for a little bit and her husband painted a picture of the Salt Lake Temple, and since they aren't members of the church anyways they're looking for someone to buy it off of them. she also said we could feel free to give a lesson of what we believe whenever we stop by to check out the painting. sort of a strange little encounter but the lord works in mysterious ways sometimes. well we gave her a call this last week and she said they were in the middle of some projects around the house so they couldn't meet with us yet, so elder kitchen and i offered to help and went over for a couple hours two days in a row to help them with that. turns out they're hindu and they shared a little bit of their beliefs with us, a lot of interesting ideas. they showed us their scripture, can't remember what it's called, and it had book reviews on the back cover from Thorou, Emerson, and Ghandi which is pretty impressive, but they were each basically saying that the book was "insightful" and "intellectually and morally stimulating", all good things, but none of them were claiming the book to be the word of God. and it had nothing to do with man's eternal salvation. It was a cool discussion, but it really made me appreciate being a member of this church even more. well, working on the project took longer than we planned so we never had a chance to check out the painting or share a lesson, but we got a good understanding of where they're coming from and what to go over with them next time.
we're working with a family who has a pretty cool story. this all happened before i got here, but the oldest daughter ended up ordering a bible from mormon.org and the missionaries went over to share a lesson about the restoration along with delivering the bible. well that daughter and her three sisters ended up getting baptized a few months ago. and ever since, the missionaries have been teaching the parents too. i've only gone over twice now, but things seem to be progressing. there are some issues that need to be addressed but work is happening. but yesterday at church one of the daughters gave a talk in sacrament meeting on the first article of faith and the godhead, which is something we were trying to help the dad gain a testimony of. and it was good because the whole family ended up coming to hear the talk. i think the spirit spoke to him during his daughter's talk and helped him embrace these things a little more. and the overall day at church seemed to be pretty great for that family. some exciting things happening with them, progress in the right direction.
i hope everyone's having a good week. the book of mormon is really the word of god and the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints really is god's kingdom established on the earth today. it is or it isn't, as simple as that. but it's the truth. and we can find out for oursevles by asking God himself through prayer. what a blessing.
love you guys
elder lamb
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