This week was pretty uneventful. We worked a lot with the people we are teaching and it's getting a bit more difficult to put time to finding new people to teach. However we are happy that we have so much people progressing. One man we are helping to quit smoking and he in general smokes 2 packs a day, but we got him down to smoking 4 cigarettes a day! That's exciting! We also are teaching this 40 year old guy that lives with his brothers and sisters that all don't like that he goes to church because they think the church is from the devil, but he goes every week, and tells them he got his response from God and that he is more scared of God than them. I told him I looked up to him a lot for that and he shared a scripture in Matthew 10:35-38* with me and said our families aren't always right. I was like dang that was savage, especially because in general conference they talked so much about focusing on your family. However it got me remembering that if we all are following the commandments and studying the scriptures our family grows closer by a consequence, but if someone uses their agency to not follow it they will end up getting separated in the end. However I liked general conference and my favorite quote was from David A Bednar that was, "Don't get home after church on Sunday and ask each other what you learned at church about Christ. Go to church and ask each other what you learned about Christ at home during the week." Love you guys.
Love,
Elder Holcomb
*35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
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