Good morning!

September 29, 2014

Hello! Things are going great here! We have been teaching a lady named Julia and she was baptised on Saturday! :) She has had a great conversion. She was able to give up drinking coffee. I always admire people who give up habits they have had their whole life to follow Jesus Christ. Yesterday we were teaching a lesson to two older ladies who are sisters and their mom who is 103 yrs old. Randomly as we were finishing the lesson a man came in and started contending with us. He is the son of hermana Cruz (one of the daughters). He said that we can't have anything more than the Bible and that the Book of Mormon is just a book invented by a man. He said we are followers of Joseph Smith and that we are leading astray the people. He said a lot more things also but you get the point... We calmly testified and read passages of the Book of Mormon with him to show and explain to him that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ with the ancient inhabitantes of the Americas but he would not open his heart at all. He insulted his mom saying that people like her who aren't as smart and haven't studied as much will easily be led away by us. He said that he didn't want us ever to return to the house. His mom then started saying that everything she has seen in us and in the Mormon church in general is done in order and that we are doing the will of God. Then he said you guys aren't doing the will of God but the will of the devil and shouldn't be lying to people. We explained that we always start and end our lessons with a prayer because we believe God is our loving Heavenly Father and that he wants to hear us. He walked away and then the 103 yr old lady stood up and said pointing to us ¨you guys are in the truth, you guys are in the truth¨. We said a closing prayer and planned on from now on visiting at the house of the other sister. This was such a great experience! The contention that man brought into the lesson made it so easy for the other 3 to see the light from the darkness, the pride from the humility, the peace from the anger, and most importantly feel the truth of our message. The whole rest of the day I felt so happy and I reflected on this scripture: Matthew 5:10-12 ¨Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.¨I felt energized to keep going forth with the work. I love you all sooooooooo much!!! Thank you for always being so loving and supportive. On Wednesday I will have time to write more and respond to each one of you. Have a great day!

Love Elder Conover