Super Spirit Bros. (7/29/2019)

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Dear friends and family,

It's hard to keep up with all that's going on...there's so much to say but I don't really know anymore how to tell about it.

My new companion, Elder Hacking, is a cool guy who's REALLY good at art. I'll have to show more of his stuff sometime. He's also played a lot of the new Super Smash Bros. game which wasn't even announced when I left. In missionary work he's really bomb at bringing the Spirit, which is sweet.

We started teaching a woman named Ashley who is friends with and is currently living with a recent convert. She has already been taught but had been dropped for a while, but we had asked her if she wanted to be taught again and she said yes. Previously I had heard her say that her only real thing was "I just won't give up coffee." Haha but we have had two really cool lessons with her and she came to church yesterday which was awesome.

We also managed to get the 15-year-old daughter of another guy being taught to come to the ward's Pioneer Day picnic on Saturday which was fun stuff. She came to church and now wants to keep coming and even plans on coming to Wednesday night activities!

We taught this super cool guy named Chris who lives in a junkyard. Yeah. He's sorta homeless BUT he has a job working at the place that owns the junkyard he lives in, which is way more than most homeless people can say. The Sisters had run into him and talked to him and gave him the Plan of Salvation pamphlet. Cool thing when we had our super spiritual lesson with him is, he said he glanced at the pamphlet and read about the pre-mortal existance and was surprised--he had never heard that before and said something to the effect of "I always kinda felt that was true." Pretty amazing. We are meeting with him again tonight!

Something cool I read this week about the importance of living prophets from the Old Testament student manual on how religion had become corrupted between the times of the Old and New Testaments:

"The oral tradition in many cases had come to overshadow the law. The temptation for the Jews during this period was to honor dead prophets over living ones. Dead prophets do not have power to say 'no,' any more than did the false gods worshiped by the Israelites in earlier times. Dead prophets call only past generations to repentance, or so it seems to those who reject the living ones. The word of God to dead prophets can be falsified, misinterpreted, and bent to where it has lost its power to bring people to the Lord. Individuals are able to maintain a false sense of piety and righteousness even as they reject the living oracles."

I definitely know that living prophets are super important and heeding their words is vital to staying connected with God. Hence the sad state of most modern-day Christians who do not follow the living prophets.

Love,
Elder Gallagher

PIC: My companion's funny art making fun of the weird Moroni design from the 70's Book of Mormon art book as well as some video of an over-acted reading of Moroni 1:3.
 
 

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