July 25th

Hey Y'all,

This week we did pretty dang well with lessons. The main focus is working with the ward members. Most people would say that that is obvious, but when I was in Rajahmundry it was honestly easier to work on our own. But I have learned that thats not the case in Madinaguda. We started out by teaching Krishna just simple scriptures, and even did that with Deepak. Deepak believes in everything (God, Hindu gods, and allah). We have just been teaching simple doctrines such as baptism and repentance. This week will be interesting because we'll teach the 10 commandments, and share the story about Baal and how the people were worshiping Idols when Moses was on the Mount. Through out my time here as I have taught hindu people that there is only one God, it doesn't quite go too smooth. Mainly because that would degrade every and anything they believed in since birth. SO its kinda a hard topic to teach, clearly and lovingly without offending them. We also were able to teach a lady named Swarupa, who let us teach her the Restoration and later the Plan of Salvation. She talked a lot about how she reads in the scriptures about false Prophets, and that lots of people from other religions would come and teach her. So we taught her about The Book of Mormon, and how that is proof that Joseph Smith is a TRUE Prophet. We told her to read and pray about it, because God's the only one that we can truly trust about this kinda stuff, and that if the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph Smith is a true Prophet. Her sister even joined in on the lesson to hear what we were teaching. Another main focus we have had was The Book of Mormon, and helping the members and investigators understand the role of it and why we have it. The best way we have taught was to teach the Doctrine's of Christ. We read the Doctrine of Christ in the Bible, and for our investigators who read the Bible, they will soon come to realize that The Book of Mormon has those same truths and concepts. Its just written in ancient Americas vs places such as Jerusalem (ie. The Bible). Its crucial that they gain faith in it and know its true because that's one of the main focal points that differs our church from their church. Thats about the only excitingish things we did this week, until next time

Love,

Elder Magnusson