August 6, 2018 (Week 44)

Diligence brings forth blessings...

Well, this week was another one of new and perfect experiences to enjoy and to learn from.  We had to learn much from diligence early on when three of our former investigators who were progressing simply decided they didn't want to listen anymore.  We could've gotten discouraged completely but just kept on trying, and the lord brought us great people towards the end of the week.

One of those new people are a young couple that run a store near our house, we had always known them as friendly people but never really talked much with them, but this last Saturday we got into talking about differences in religion out of the blue, and we promised to bring them a Book of Mormon the next day.  On Sunday when we came to bring them the book they were excited and said they had been waiting for us, and later as we passed by on the street we saw them in their shop completely absorbed in reading the Book of Mormon!  That sure was a sweet feeling!

Another thing we've seen is the power of the Book of Mormon to completely respond to conflicts.  We've had three instances where people told us in lessons that we taught the same thing as all the other churches and that there was nothing new, but simply with two or three verses of the Book of Mormon the people who moments before wanted to contend were left without anything to say other than to agree to read more of the book!

Ha, the lord sure does work in mysterious and sometimes pretty amusing ways!  Anyways, thanks for all your prayers and love, talk to ya next week!

-Elder Varney