Matthew 16:25


"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."
Matthew 16:25

Monday, September 25, 2017

Another week passes and it's pretty sweet yay

Hey guys!
Pretty good week. Some funny stories! First i went on exchanges with Elder Sandberg, and that was awesome, we had a great time telling stories and whatnot. He's a great guy. I also got to play with fire while I was there, so Elder Chauncey had a lighter on his desk, so I took it, and started just burning a bunch of trash and whatnot by the sink, it was super lit (ha puns). Another thing I learned is that evidently missionaries can't have girls friended on Facebook except for family members, so I had to unfriend...39 people, yay me😂 We didn't have much luck teaching tho, cuz we'd call a bunch of people, walk an hour to there place to them find out the address doesn't exist, or other things like that (but mostly just that). OH!!! So on Friday Elder Makakane and I are walking to an appointment, and some guy comes up and is like "aye you guys are Mormon, I got a few questions for you", so that turned into an hour and a half sorta bible bash on the side of the rode. It was funny cuz everything he said we had scripture, and other things, but he was so driven to prove us wrong he wasn't really willing to accept any new information. It was an interesting experience for sure, and he was respectful so that was nice, he was just not willing to learn, he just wanted to prove himself right. Then the next day some drunk guy with his gang on the side of the rode starts yelling "hey how many wives do y'all have!" We told him we didn't have any and that we can only have one wife when we're married, so I was glad we could clear that up😂then he starts yelling at us saying that we are adding onto the bible, and how that's a sin. My companion then explained that the Book of Mormon doesn't add to the bible because it's a separate testimony of Jesus Christ, and also that that verse from Revelations was written simply pertaining to the Book of revelations, not the bible as a whole, and gave some other scriptures to back that up. Then he goes "oh I guess that it is true" then he goes on this big rant, cuz of how drunk he was, about how he just wants to tell people to know for themselves the truth and all this other stuff, and we kinda had to walk away because we knew it wasn't going anywhere.😂 Anyway I know this church is true, it brings me and everyone I've met more peace and joy then comes from any other source, because it's Jesus Christ's church, and I love that I get to go out and share this knowledge with everyone. I know that through Christ and his loving atonement we can be clean and pure to one day stand before God.  Love and miss all y'all!

-Elder Carlson 

Pics descriptions:
1-6. Me playing with fire
7. A quote I really like
8-12. Some drawings I've been working on these past few weeks 
13. A Hawaiian necklace my companion got me











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