Email May 19, 2014

Herro, Everyone! As always, I hope all is well with all of you. :) Well this week was pretty boring as well. :/ We had a lesson with Brother and Sister Francis, answering their questions. Even after we answered they weren't quite sure, but I feel like the Spirit was there to testify of the truth. We invited them to a baptism that was happening in another ward last Saturday, they said they would be coming, and they didn't come. :( Apparently Sister Francis wasn't feeling well so they weren't able to make it out, so we again invited them to church and again they didn't make any promises because they don't want to make promises they might not keep, and they didn't come to church. Which means she will have to push her baptismal date back. :( Please pray for them, they need to start committing or they won't be able to progress. We weren't able to meet with Rick, he was out of town or something. And we weren't able to meet with Kyle and Brenda either, so we're going to try back again with them this week. And Rick is expecting us this Friday so we will have a lesson with him this week too. Other than that, we talked with Bob again. Have I told you guys about Bob? Atheist geologist? If I have, cool. If not, he is an atheistic geologist who doesn't believe in God because it's not logical to. Even though it is logical to believe that somehow all of the matter forming the entire known universe was suddenly created from nothing. Which goes against scientific knowledge that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. I don't understand him, haha. He asks great questions that make me think and enjoys us coming around so that he can learn more about our religion and he reads the things we ask him to read so technically he's progressing more than our religious investigators. That's frustrating! hahaha. His questions, like I said, make me think about my testimony but each time I do my testimony comes out stronger because it shows me that man obviously came from a higher power because science can't answer questions of the soul or questions of the universe, haha. I don't have much else to say, but I will close with a few thoughts including the title story, starting with the title story. So we had dinner at our Ward Mission Leader, Brother James McClung's house. He has a young daughter, Kate who is, I think 5, and hilarious. So we are waiting for dinner to be ready and she asks us: Kate: Do you guys wanna hear a joke? Missionaries: Of course! K: Okay, knock, knock. M: Who's there? K: Lamp. M: Lamp who? K: Lamp like when you grab it and open the front door and catch the rug and bring it all out with you and Mommy finds out and says, (and then her voice got as low as her little 5 year old voice could get, which obviously isn't very low, adds a little bit of an old man accent on, and says really slowly) "That is unseptable!" IT WAS ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS!!! The joke made NO sense WHATSOEVER and the voice she did was just absolutely hilarious! Hahahaha! It was a great moment, it was soooo funny! Ahhhh man, it was great. :) Second to last thought: We were talking with someone who served a Korean speaking mission and he told us some gospel trivia. Is the Brother of Jared the older brother or the younger brother? In English, that's not important. But in Korean, the way they say brother matters and makes a difference so when they were translating the Book of Mormon into Korean, they needed to know which form of brother to put in to be correct. So they asked the Prophet at the time (I don't remember who) to find out from The Lord. He went and asked and came back with the answer that the Brother of Jared, Mahonri Moriancumer, is the younger brother of Jared! Haha, there we go useless gospel trivia. :D Last thought: Heavenly Father sees us as our full potential, even when we do not. So, what do we see ourselves as? He knows our potential fully because He is our full potential and He wants to help us get to that point! We are children of God and because of that we can become like our Celestial Father. But do we truly understand our potential? I know I don't but we are told we are children of God and I believe that I am a son of God. I don't know what all that can be, but I know (don't understand) that our potential is so much more than we can ever imagine! Love you guys, you are full of immeasurable potential and CAN achieve that! Never forget that! Love, Elder Jacob Cevering