"Talking with them is like talking to a brick wall"

Dear Family and friends,

Well its another week! and it has been a pretty good week. The weather hasn't been too cold and we have been able to get around easily. I look back on the week and I don't remember a whole lot. I am starting to get selective memory. But this time mom I only remember the good stuff. Which is probably why I am drawing a blank as to what we did because it was a trying week. Probably more trying for my companion because i think im use to it. most days i understand there will be trials and usually i am pretty happy during the day regardless of what happens. But still it would be nice if people were home and we could teach them. but we actually have some really good potentials that i know we will pick up and 3 people who will be baptized just a matter of when. So we have success but it just doesn't look like it.

 

I am getting alot of good advice from my president. In my letters to him i often tell him my struggles and he gives me great advice for how i should fix them. All take a lot of work on my part but hey if i want to fix them i guess thats how. I am really starting to see parts of my patriarchal blessing getting confirmed on my mission.

 

i gave a talk yesterday on charity. I basically falsed myself because i am not showing enough charity. But it was a fun talk because i decided to just study the topic and just speak and see how i do. i thought i did pretty good, people came up and said they liked my talk. i spoke for about 20 minutes on how i have learned charity on my mission. i gave many examples and really tried to speak from the heart. it was good. In the wards here they always have an intermediate hymn and only 2 speakers so i had to speak for a long time. i left my comp about 10 minutes. haha but getting there was interesting. We had a confirmation in the other building at the same time so after the confirmation we ran to the other building and they only had one person bear there testimony as they stalled for us. i forgot to tell the bishop we would be late so he was sweating hahaha. my bad. he forgave me.

 

But elder Bennett and i work hard to do our best. we try to follow preach my gospel as best we can and listen to the counsel of our leaders to help people make covenants and keep them. I think that is the key. even though we are not the best teachers and we definitely don't know everything we find success when we work hard. the Lord has really blessed us and i have felt his love for me.

 

A couple days ago a guy tried to bash with me. my companion didn't know the scriptures well enough to bash so it was just up to me. I held my own but i mostly bore testimony. I didn't want to argue but anytime he came up with something false i showed him in the bible where he was wrong. Then he just started yelling at us because he could destroy our faith. He was trying to prove that our prophet was false. After that i stood up and in a calm voice bore testimony of Jesus Christ and how he set up his church and how our church is founded on apostles and prophets and we have the priesthood and i grabbed my comp and just walked out. It was going no where. But the spirit was really weird after i did that. i felt it but i could also feel some contention. Anyways we also ran into a satanist and a few 7th day Adventist. None really want to hear what we say. There are  lot of catholics here but they don't even know what they believe so talking with them is like talking to a brick wall. But i have  met a lot of prepared people and a lot of people that will be baptized when the right elder or sister comes along. Kearns is where its at. We baptize here and i am glad to serve here.

 

Love you all and i hope your all safe and sound.

Love Elder Salmon