June 8, 2015

Hi Mamasita,

We had four investigators in church on Sunday, so that's pretty cool. 

We had a party for the people in the branch who read the Book of Mormon after President Swineford challenged them back in December, I believe. On Sunday the sisters taught the Sunday school lesson on self-reliance, and we're translating the booklet for the course made by the church into Macedonian one chapter at a time. Translating stuff is so painstaking. 

I set up a lesson with the guy from Connecticut, Stuart, but he ended up cancelling. When I first called him I asked if he wanted to meet one day. 

"To hang out or to convert me?" he asked.

"Both?" He laughed and said he always liked a spiritual discussion. Then it ended up not happening though!

I ran into the anti-mormon Romanian guy again and the same thing happened where I went back to the apartment to get the Romanian Book of Mormon and then came back to find him gone. I told my companions I'm just carrying it around with me for the next few weeks until I leave. 

 

Here's something I read during personal study that I really liked. When President Packer gave his last talk at General Conference I couldn't understand a word so I heard it the first time in printed form. "And if you suppose that the full-blown rapture of young romantic love is the sum total of the possibilities which spring from the fountains of life, you have not yet lived to see the devotion and the comfort of longtime married love. Married couples are tried by temptation, misunderstandings, financial problems, family crises, and illness, and all the while love grows stronger. Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds." I guess I just like it because I feel like all I hear as a missionary are people telling me that "life only gets harder" which makes me have quite the grim outlook. Nice to hear that it gets better.

Love,

Sister Riddle