Dear Family,
I cannot believe how quickly this transfer is going by! Me and Elder Abraham have been busy since our first day together. I'm pretty used to it at this point, though. We traveled to Cebu yet again this past week for more meetings and we had the enjoyable privilege to teach the missionaries in the zone this past Saturday. On top of that, we had another zone conference yesterday in San Carlos. Lots of traveling, lots of meetings, but lots of fun! We were actually given a wonderful surprise at our zone conference. President showed us the new film "Meet the Mormons". It was such an enjoyable watch! It was nice to see some football again... But besides that, it was very inspiring and showed how the gospel is for anyone and everyone, no matter where you are in the world. I'm looking forward to watching it again in the future!
Even though we have been busy, we are still finding great people to teach! I just want to share an experience that we had this past week of a lesson that we taught to an investigator named July.
July is in his 20's and is a seaman. We tracted his home a few weeks ago and taught him a lesson. The lesson went fine and he invited us back for a return appointment. We returned this past week with the intent of teaching him about the apostasy and restoration of the gospel. As we began to teach him, we felt the distinct impression to change the lesson a little bit and focus on prophets. We taught him about the life of the Savior and the things that he did while living on earth. We taught about the authority that He had and how he established a church here on earth. We began to teach him about the prophets of old who were called to testify of Christ and teach His gospel to all, that all might be partakers of salvation and eternal happiness. As I sat teaching this man, I looked into his eyes and testified that we have a living prophet on earth today, and that we have living apostles to guide the church in these latter-days. I wish that you could have sat in on the lesson! Though you would not have understood a word, you certainly would have felt the spirit that filled the room and his heart. I will never forget the look of amazement on his face. He had never even considered the possibility that there are living prophets on the earth today. As we invited him to pray to know if the things that we taught him were true, he excitedly accepted!
I think that sometimes as members of the church we take these glorious truths for granted. The more I ponder the plan of salvation, the more I am amazed at the perfectness of our existence. Though we are not perfect, we can become so, for the plan that Heavenly Father has given us is flawless. I have begun to once again start thanking my Father in heaven for all of the "small truths", so to speak, of the gospel that we have always enjoyed and known. I hope that we do not allow ourselves to take these gospel truths for granted. Let us study and re-study these basic principles and doctrines of the gospel. As we do so, I know that our testimony of these things will inevitably increase.
There is a small portion of everything that has happened in the last 7 days. I wish everyone could experience serving a mission. It is the absolute hardest and most enjoyable decision that I have ever made. I send my love to you all!
Elder Staheli.
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