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, December 11, 2017

Snow and Dispelling Spirits

Hey guys! 
Haha yeah that title might seem a bit strange but I'll explain that in a bit😂.  First off we finally were able to meet with our investigator Anime and that was awesome, he had a lot of really interesting ideas and most of it didn't really make sense and I'm not sure why people have these weird questions, but they were really genuine and we answered them pretty well, just a lot of questions about Heavenly Mother and whether or not to call Jesus by that name or the original Hebrew name Yahweh. Stuff I've never even thought about but it was cool to see other people's perspectives I guess. I really hope we can keep helping him progress, he's super solid and feels the spirit a lot with us.

Now about the dispelling spirits...so this happened actually when me and Elder Selu were handing out Light the World cards next to the church for three hours in the freezing cold and getting ignored by everyone. This older African man comes up and asks if we can give him a blessing. I say of course, and he says that Satan has been sending evil spirits into him and giving him demonic attacks and doesn't know what to do. Now I can tell he has an evil spirit in him because right when he walked up a terrible presence felt like it came with him. So we take him inside and go into a room, and I start giving him a blessing, and I basically tell the spirit in the name of Jesus Christ to leave his body, and all of a sudden you can feel the Holy Ghost in the room. After the blessing he goes "after that I no longer have bad urges and demons because I am filled with the holy spirit" so yeah I guess that can go down as a pretty dope experience! 

Other than that we were able to help a member move all day on Saturday which was sweet cuz that meant we could spend a ton of time in the snow, like for real it feels like I'm in Idaho or something cuz that's like the only time I see snow! It's so cool, plus I got these really sweet snow boots that are actually super ugly but freaking sweet. Um other than that we convinced a bunch of people that me and my companion were from Australia (we started street contacting in different accents to keep things from getting too boring) so that was dope. So yeah there we go, this week has been focused a lot on lighting the world during Christmas time. I know that doing as Christ did in his earthly ministry we can feel the love of Christ for others and be blessed for doing that.  Love and miss y'all! 
-Elder Carlson 

Pics descriptions:
1. Chilling with the Phillies mascot 
2-5. Handing out Light the World calendars in the freezing cold getting ignored
6-10. Snow!! 










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