November 20, 2017

Hey everyone! This week was a really good week.

Update on Gabriel: He has now come to church 2 weeks in a row and he went to the ice skating activity this week. He is such a boss. We stayed for an hour of it and made sure that he was making connections with some of the other youth, which he did and had a great time. His mom stayed as well. She is less interested but loves how her son is so interested. We had some of the other adults go and make connections with her. One of the members, Sister Sartorie walked up and started talking to her. They really clicked. Sister Sartorie and Rosemary talked about the trials they are going through and then Sister Sartorie bore an amazing testimony about how the Book of Mormon is what made the difference in her life and brought her so much peace. Sister Sartorie gets it because she was in those same shoes 6 years ago. She wasn’t interested but she had missionaries that didn’t give up on her. She wouldn’t read, lesson after lesson, but then eventually she picked up the Book of Mormon and read on her own for the first time and then her “Life was never the same again.” Rosemary said that she knows that it was god who sent Sister Sartorie to her and she said she would read the Book of Mormon. So Sister Sartorie said she would give her a Book of Mormon at church. 

We had an awesome Lesson on the plan of Salvation with Gabriel. He had so many questions about where we came from and where we go after we die. We were happy to answer them. After we finished teaching he said, “now I understand why people get baptized”. We set a date with him to be baptized on the 9th of December which may be my last week in the area. Who knows 🤷🏼‍♂️

Meeting with Elder Gifford Nielsen of the Seventy was cool, Elder Feick and I got to meet with him and President Hess for a pre-Conference meeting and it was so cool. He told a football story of when he was in the NFL. It was really cool, but what was even cooler was hearing him speak and teach from the scriptures. He is an amazing teacher. 

I am so grateful for this gospel and the way it has changed my life. I know that I will never be the same again. When I return home, nothing can ever be the way it was before. 

I would like to testify of what my cousin (Ethan Thompson) said, if we do love him, our life will be be the proof.  We will manifest our love and loyalty to the savior by his feeding his sheep. 

Love you all!

Elder McOmber