Very good week this week! I'm up in Kerman! It's a massive area and covers a bunch of little towns! Kerman itself is a strange little place and has a wierd mix of Mexicans, Rednecks, Sikhs, and a few normal Californians mixed in! (For those who follow football, we cover a town called Firebaugh where the top NFL draft pick is from!) My new companion is Elder Okolowitz and he's an awesome companion! We have really similar personalities and both love to work super hard! The area is really solid too! We cover a Spanish branch and English ward so we always got a lot to do! The work in the Branch is booming! We have a really awesome investigator named Veronica and she came to church and loved it! We also have another investigator name Aida who is the sweetest lady and also came to church and said she felt the spirit super strong! We had 6 non-members their in the branch alone and the room was packed! I also had to give the opening prayer and bless the sacrament!
We had the privilege to have Presidente Mackay come teach with us and he's a super awesome teacher and the spirit was super strong that lesson!
We also have this awesome but crazy ward mission leader named Brother Boyd who basically owns half the city. We had a ward Easter egg hunt at the church and had a bunch of less active come and an investigator family! Brother Boyd came and said we wanted to spice up the hunt a bit so we pulled a 100$ out of his wallet and put it in an egg! A 4 year old ended up finding it and tossed the money aside and started eating the candy instead!
My favorite scripture form this week comes from 2nd Nephi 9:7-10 7 Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the firstjudgment which came upon man must needs haveremained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.
These verses talk about what would've happened if Christ didn't do what he did! All hope would be lost, guilt would be permanent, our sufferings would be everlasting, and we would have no purpose in life! That is why Christ's role was vital and all he asks in return is to follow him and his gospel!
That's about all new this week, take care!
Con Amor,
Elder Houssian
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