Week 52

Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope it went well for everyone! We made our day a little special-er by buying some truffles and chocolate covered, manjar-filled stick things. The truffles were chocolate, but tasted more like bubblegum.....not exactly sure why. Interesting enough though. We also got home and cooked some french fries and chicken patties so we had our own feast. Also saw our neighbor's turkeys, chickens and ducks wandering free and I would be lying if I said   my mouth didn't water just a little bit when imagining one of those turkeys baked in the oven. :) Missed out on the pumpkin pie, but just means I will eat double next year! We had a good day though.

Yesterday we taught a couple named Francisco and Julia. They live in a newer neighborhood in the city and are currently adding on another room to their house. We found him a couple weeks back when we saw him unloading big plywood from the roof of his car and ran over to help him before he killed himself. He said his wife is an English professor and told us to come by the next weeknd. We went by but they were not there, but then passed by yesterday on the way to somewhere else when they came to mind, and they let us right in! They are super friendly and receptive and I believe truly understood what we were teaching about the restauration. They had a ton of questions about the gospel, us as missionaries, and America. It was way fun and neat. They were 2 of 5 new people we taught this week.

We also visited a less active family and made contact for the first time. As we were approaching form about a block away I think they saw us and all went inside. But we knocked/shouted anyways and the man came out and then the kids and then the wife. They were very friendly and as we just made conversation they opened up and relaxed a little more. They used to be a very active part int he branch here. They have kids aged 8 6 and 4. The 8 year old has a lot of interest in religion and we left him with  a Book of Mormon and Alma 56 to read about the stripling warriors. We left another chapter with his mom because she said she remembered a few stories so we invited her to read one. As we were walking away I invited them to church the next day and they were like. Tomás wants to go! So I said we'd go pick him up in the morning and when we passed in the morning he was ready to go! We went by another part member family first and walked with them to the house of Tomás and then all got to church. It was wonderful.

I spoke in church and talked about being a witness of God. I explained what it means to be a witness, why we should be one and how to do it. For me, the best way to be a witness of God is to be like Him by developing attributes similar to Christ. That is what I shared about. Preach My Gospel has a wonderful and short chapter about that, chapter 6. Read it!

Lots of love

Elder Brighton


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