This week was my birthday on the 25th! and some of the guys in my house woke up early and my companion elder payne made me a ton a french toast and hashbrowns and all that hahaha so it was a good day!
for those of you who have served missions you know that holidays and birthdays and really just like any other day that you have here.. hahaha its kinda sad. but thats what i signed up for! hahah but we did celebrate with some milkshakes and some good stuff like that.
but we also had a baptism this saturday and everything went great! its amazing how prepared some people are! they came up to us one sunday and the wife said " hey i have a husband who wants to get baptized so we can go to the temple. and we are married legally and i am a member already." so i tried not to pee my pants when i heard that. but anyway. he got baptized this week and will be confirmed next week because he came late cuz his car wouldnt start on sunday.. i guess the devil still works on easters.
but MIRACLE happened this week. so last week we were supposed to have a 23 year old man confirmed because he had been baptized like a month ago and he couldnt get confirmed because of the conference we had with the apostle and because of stake conference. and he didnt show up the day he was going to be because he had heard some stuff from a afriend at school the day before and decided not to be a member of the church anymore. but this week we visited him and just bore testimony of the truth of the church and the prophet. then later we took him to a family night we were having. and after when we got home we got a text telling us he was ready to be confirmed a member of the church the next morning!!! and i even got to assist in his confirmation. he has decided to start his mission papers and to go on a mission as soon as he can! he is one of the smartest people i know! and im happy for him!
moral is we might all have questions about things we might not agree with or things we dont completely understand and no one can give us a sure answer!
as long as we know the bigger questions and have the answer to those from the spirit, the liittle things, dont even matter.
in the words of elder callister " i can live with some human imperfections in the leadership of the church, i can live with some questions others may present, time will answer those, i can live with that. but i cannot live without the saving ordinances the church gives. i cannot live without being sealed to my family for eternity."
so as long as we know what we believe, nothing else really matters!
have a good week and make sure when you say your prayers, ask what you can do better! ... it works.
ps. im being transferred
elder fuchs
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