A Baptist, a Muslim, and a Seventh Day

This week was a week that I liked. Good times. We had probably more lessons than we've had in quite a few lessons, including some pretty good ones.

We had a lesson with a 24 year old member to help him consider going on a mission. It turns out he just thought that he was too old. He said that in his patriarchal blessing it says that if he wants to achieve anything in life he needs to prepare to serve a mission. I assured him he's not necessarily too old. He committed to pray and talk to the bishop about it. It looks to me like we could really get him to go. That's awesome! I'm pretty excited about that.

I was on exchanges on Tuesday and Wednesday with one of the assistants, Elder Johnson. We met with a cool African in my area named Victor. He's from Nigeria, 6th year medical student, here with his wife and small baby. He's such a believer. Every bit of doctrine he talked about was dead-on. We really respects us for coming here and a he gratefully accepted a Book of Mormon after we explained it to him. Looking forward to meeting with him again.

We also met with Anya, Sergei and Larissa's daughter at our bishop's home. It was a really cool meeting. She came with a lot of questions and we were able to answer them all. I think she was pretty satisfied with the answers in the end and we definitely left her with some things to think about. She's reading the Book of Mormon now and she told me a couple days ago that most of it's in the Bible. I explained why, of course, that's the case, because it came from the same source. Good stuff.

We met with that Iranian guy who came to the Christmas concert 2 weeks ago. His Dad lives in Canada, so I helped him with filling out a form to get a tourist visa because his English isn't that great, and we also talked about the gospel. We gave him selections of the Book of Mormon in Farsi (Persian) and had a pretty good talk. He came to Church yesterday. The language was a bit of an issue because he doesn't know much Russian yet, but it was cool. A member translated for him into English during Sacrament because my companion and I were speaking. We received that assignment the night before. Haha. We also taught Gospel Principles. Things are going just fine here.

Elder Peterson is a great companion and we're having fun together. The work is moving on.

I know that this is the Lord work. I know that it's all true. The Book of Mormon is a real record of prophets who lived on the American continent. God lives and He restored His Church on the earth in these last days. Thomas S. Monson is a living prophet. It's true and it's awesome. Thanks for everything.

Love,

Elder Mahoney

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