Hindus

This week was a lot of fun, went by really fast as well. Thursday two guys came up to us and asked us to visit them, they just came up from Lima and they always had the missionaries over at their house sharing messages. I was pretty excited cause nobody ever just comes up to you and asks you to visit them so we walked into their house the next day and right off the bat I knew what religion they were, yoga matts, altars, weird insence all over the place haha. We sat down and they told us they practice the religion Hindu from India. We had the plan of teaching the restoration but I decided to totally dedicate the lesson to them, I wanted to learn everything about them and what they believed in to get to know them better, and find similarities in our religion, I asked them to share their beliefs on what will happen to us when we died, what happened before we were born, and why we're here. I honestly loved listening to them that day. The Lord blessed me with the ability to just listen and make the conversation spiritual. I knew that they were probably never going to change, or accept what we believed in. But what I saw was how cool it was to be able to talk to them so much about religion, when we're not practicing the same religion haha. After they shared their beliefs, I explained to them the Plan of Salvation, and I emphasized a lot in the things that were similar. They thought that our plan was something very pretty and had questions as well. I felt and I know they're not gonna get baptized or anything crazy like that, but I learned so much about religious tolerance that day, So many people just look for the differences and fight about what's right, but that visit I made two good friends that I was able to help understand a lot more about our church and what we believe in. 

So ya pretty cool experience, for me anyways haha. I hope you all have a good week!!! Go talk to someone new!!! 3 Nephi 14-2-5

p.s. I treated myself to a new addition to my suit for my birthday, I think it looks sweet :)

3 Nephi 14: 2-5

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the mote out of thine eye—and behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye.