A Full Week In Linden!

Dear friends and family,

This is my full week in linden and it was an adventure! I have met a lot of amazing people and they are prepared to receive the gospel.

I also met with the members and they are super strong in the gospel. They are very humble and willing to share the gospel with everyone!

A highlight this week was when we went teaching with a member family named the Emmanules. They have a wonderful testimony and they shared it with our person on date, Eon. Eon is a wonderful kid that has the desire to be baptized and he is preparing himself very well. The Emmmanules came with us to a less active family who stopped coming because of beef they have with someone in the branch. The Emmmanules bore with their souls their testimony about forgiveness and we ended with planning to have them and president come over and visit them.

The Spiritual thought this week comes from my personal study this morning.

I read Alma Chapter 50 and it talks about how Captain Moroni was fortifying the Nephite cities. I thought for a moment about how it compares to faith. Faith is like a seed and if we don't nourish it, we are leaving to dwindle and defenseless. Same goes for forts. If we don't fortify our faith, it will fail. We need to always fortify our faith by building defenses of prayer, scripture study, and attending church, in doing so, we can not fall away into forbidden pathes and we can be safe in the gospel! Helman 5 also talks about this, I strongly encourage all of you to read the chapter.

It was a good week, cant wait to write more in the coming week!

Sincerely,

Elder Franco