Well hello, everybody!
I hope everyone is getting warm weather wherever they are because I've been enjoying it here in Green Bay! Today I'm actually wearing a short-sleeved shirt in 50 degree weather, so I must be going crazy or something!
So I'm pretty sure all of you know that I just love music. The other day we were on the UWGB campus and I guess some students did a project of some sort where they had to build something on a larger scale than what it already was in real life. As my parents can attest to, I enjoy my music a bit loud. I just had to take a picture in their honor of what we found.
It's a massive boombox!!!:-D
Anyway, I hope all of you got a chance to watch General Conference this past weekend, because it was MIND BLOWING!! Elder Holland really started it off on Saturday with a bang! He said some things that were kind of difficult to hear, because he was shouting, but his message was incredible. He said, "You will one day find yourself called upon to defend your faith or perhaps even endure some personal abuse simply because you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Such moments will require both courage and courtesy on your part." My favorite quote though, was, "Now be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don't have it all. Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but DEFEND THEM!"
As a missionary, my beliefs are attacked almost daily. People ignorantly assume that we have been deceived, or that we are liars. A lot of people think we are JW and avoid us at all costs, which makes me sad because of what our message can do for them and because of the hatred that people have for the JW's. :-( It's hard to help people realize that this is Christ's church. It wasn't started as Joseph Smith's church. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It has the same setup as Christ's church did in His day. Faith without works is dead. Our choiced in life DO matter. God lives. The Book of Mormon is true. I have read it three times and I'm halfway through my fourth. Joseph Smith was a prophet called by God to restore Christ's church. This Church is true. I know. I love it. I love it. And I love you. :-)
--Elder Riggs
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