This week I met more atheists than I have in my whole mission, and I will say I was under prepared for those interactions as I hadn't had those encounters before. I'm always genuinely intrigued to hear their reasonings as to why they don't believe in God. And then I get saddened when they tell me how they are doing life on their own that it's only themselves that can make their own life better. I get sad thinking about it because of how much I've relied on God and the Atonement of Jesus Christ and how they don't recognize that Heavenly power in their lives. I just try my best to be an example of Christ and testify that there is a God that knows them and loves them.
We had a very interesting interaction with someone named Margarita. We knocked her door looking for her son, and she went to go look for him, 5 minutes later she comes back and tells us he doesn't have time. So we ask if she is interested in hearing a message. And she says yes. So we start talking about the Plan of Salvation and the Atonement. She keeps asking a lot of questions, kept interrupting our responses. Wasn't the most productive conversation, but we are returning on Wednesday to conversate more. So we'll see how that goes.
We had a lot more interesting conversations with people but if I wrote them all this email would be very long haha, so I'll spare you.
On Friday morning I had a third companion doing door contacts with us. We named him Scout. He was this old dog that just followed us around, and when we talked with people at the door he layed in the shade taking a rest. It was awesome, I always love those moments of a dog actually loving us instead of barking at us jaja.
It was also General Conference this weekend!! I wasn't able to watch a lot of it sadly, but in grateful they are recorded and I'll be able to study them more in depth!! We were able to watch bits and pieces with our friends and some new members, we saw some miracles there for sure, just being able to watch it with them!
A takeaway from conference was from Ulisses Soares. He talked about aligning ourselves with God, to put off our natural wants. Am I a lover of myself? Or am I a lover of God? (Matthew 22:37-38) To be a disciple of Christ I need to be disciplined like Christ was. God knows what's best for us, what will bring us the most joy, the most peace, everything. We will be blessed with these things as we align ourselves with God!
Love you all!
Elder Spencer
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