Pic with Heavyweight Title contender, Joseph Parker

I'll share a few experiences of this week and some of the people we are teaching right now:)

Matthew: He doesn't necessarily have a church he goes to. But the way he acts he for sure knows Christ. Before we had met him he was into some bad stuff. Alcohol, drugs, and that stuff. But he decided to make a change in his life for the better. So he stopped doing all that and found Christ. If he were a member he would be a solid one! This week we taught him on a Saturday. The lesson was outside, it kind felt like a picnic without the food. We taught him more about the church but during the lesson he claimed that God told him the right church wasn't ours. So we taught him how Christ is center, this is His church and there needs to be authority from God to be a true church. We sat and talked for quite some time and he was keen on us coming back to talk more about the gospel. To close our lesson we all said a prayer, including Matthew. It was an interesting lesson but the Spirit was so strong while we were there!

Chontelle: She is the best!! She really doesn't have much of an understanding of who God is and really what the gospel is. So we are basically teaching her from scratch. In the meetings we have we can't really ask questions because not everything makes sense to her quite yet. She comes to church and is already saying she is a member but she needs to get married to her less-active husband, Bismark. He wants to change is old ways and is keen also.  

Elder Burns and I had a really good doctrinal talks this week being in a buzz on how to make studies better we had two major questions: Why does God use covenants? And from understanding the doctrine of dispensations, what do we learn about God? Oh my goodness for the life of me I could not answer them. Elder Burns enlightened me on these two questions. Using analogies of sports players and how covenants are like contracts. They are binding agreements that make it apparent to live by what the contract implies. The same with the second question, He has given us the Priesthood and prophets. Prophets not only share the gospel but they have all the same attributes as God (so to speak). We learn that God has given us agency in dispensations. I mean look at the time of Noah. He was proclaiming the truth but wicked men chose not to follow him. There we can see that sin separates us from God. That is the reason why Apostasy happens. Sin separates us from Him. God can't show his love for us when we sin. Does this all make sense? This week a lot of changes have had to be made especially toward studies! More in depth, more soul searching, more everything pertaining to studies! I LOVE IT!  I've done a lot more studying not just during the morning but also during lunch and dinner! My testimony is growing exponentially. I think Heavenly Father is trying to teach me something.....Study is WORK!   

Love you all and have a sweet week :)