Dear Friends and Family,
How is everyone doing? This week has been another great week here in Hagerstown! I absolutely love the branch here, every member is super strong in their testimonies and are always willing to help. And I am pretty sure every single member is a convert to the church, or at least 95% of them, and so they know the importance of the missionaries and they love them, because the missionaries changed their lives! So it's been really rocking and rolling with the member missionary work here!
So quick little miracle, we have been teaching this lady named Nell who really knows her bible, like real well, and she's really involved in her church. So before I got here my companions taught her about her 2 sticks found in Ezekiel 37, and that through her for a little loop. So the next call after that lesson was my first lesson here. And she started telling us about all the research she has been doing to try to find evidence to our claim, and she did a lot of stuff.
But we told her that the only evidence she needs is in her hands, which was the Book of Mormon. She then said that she needed to study Egyptian history to learn more about the tribe of Joseph and all this stuff, but we told her again that the only evidence you need is the Book of Mormon. So we told her to dive into it and put it to the test, and she said she would.
So then the next call we had with her, we ahed how her reading was and she told us that she had read from 1 Nefi 1 to 1 Nefi 13! And that was just in 3 days!!!!! We were blown away! She had some questions, but she said that she is going to keep reading and putting it ot the test!
We also taught another in person lesson this week!!!!!!! That's 3 lessons for me in person in 5 months! Whoot whoot, we're moving forward and so that makes us super excited!
We've been doing service in a cemetery recently! We talked pictures of headstones and upload them to billion graves! It's been fun to get out of the apartment as well! Hahahaha
Also made a trip out to Martinsburg, WV this week to go on an exchange! So now I have covered 3 of the 4 states that my mission covers, trying to make it 4/4 by the end of my mission! Just missing Virginia!
I love you and I hope you know that hope is key!
Elder Jorge
