ANOTHER WEEK BITES THE DUST! - 26 August 2024

Hello hello hello!!! It is a great day here in Virginia and a great day everywhere! This email might be a little shorter than others but I'm making sure I get every email out before I come home which is so soon! 

Anyways our week was a pretty chill one. Nothing too crazy happened, most of our lessons fell through and we weren't able to find that many people but we stay grinding! Our friends are all still super super awesome, most things have stayed the same with them. 

We did have a lesson with Jason who is on date for middle of September and it was an incredible lesson. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and everything we taught made so much sense to him. He comes from a catholic background and so he explained what he was taught with Adam and eve but when we taught what we believed about Adam and eve, it was like a spark just lit! We told him how what eve did wasn't a bad thing and that it all happened so that we could be here on earth and I mean he just was illuminating the entire time, in awe about how we view our lives. Then when it came to the idea of Celestial, terrestrial and Telestial heavens, he literally said HOLY CRAP! as we were sharing it. Then he goes on to explain that he's had questions his whole life about how he doesn't feel like God would punish people to eternal suffering and fire and brimstone if they don't make the mark and so his entire life he's rejected hell. So when he found out that we believe everyone on earth will recieve a glory in heaven he just knew it was true! He's known this was true his whole life, he just never knew where to find it till now. The spirit was so strong the entire lesson and I'm excited to keep working with him while I can! 

Anyways that's the big highlight of the week, we've got exchanges this week with our Zone Leaders and a few lessons scattered throughout the week so hopefully if all goes well, this next week will be more successful than this past week! But I'm so happy to be here in Virginia right now, i would want to be anywhere else doing anything different! This is the greatest work on earth!! Love yall stay cool and in school!! 

-Elder Milius