Americans at 5:00 am (June 25, 2023)

 On Monday last week we had a lesson with one of our friends in a less active family. They haven't been to church in about 8 years. Ww were able to have the first councillor in the bishopric there who is also a friend of the family.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges. 

Tuesday we did a lesson on the restoration and we visited an inactive member and reinvited him to church.

Wednesday we had an appointment with somebody who had never heard of the church. Unfortunately he approached our discussion as a studier of religion rather than an actual investigator. Later we had a meeting with another friend. He's been working with missionaries for several years but he has been in and out of jail and has many issues with drugs. With him, we went over the plan of salvation and about halfway through teaching him I felt that we should invite him to be baptized and the other elder I was with felt the same thing. We hadn't even considered inviting him to be baptised before the lesson but we couldn't ignore the feeling that we both received.

Thursday was Zone Conference

Friday we had our temple trip and we helped with the stake mini MTC. Teaching about the plan of salvation and how to teach it.

Saturday we got a call from America asking us to give a book of Mormon to one of their friends. The only problem being it was 5.00 in the morning. Most of the day we helped some more with the mini MTC

Sunday the friend that we invited came to church. For the first time after 8 years. It was really cool to see how many people welcomed them back and who still remembered them. We also gave the book of Mormon to the friend of the person from America he seemed really happy to meet us and we talked to him for some time before going to church that morning.

It's finally starting to get cold here. It's not too bad unless it rains because with the rain and the wind you freeze so quickly. I'm jealous of everyone who can swim right now.

Love you all,
Elder Westover 

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