ELDER ERIC BURGON: 🔥 ➡️ ❄️ ... °||||° 🏈

Interpretation: "The weather went from HOT to COLD and there was a football player who showed up in a JEEP"

Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! and shout out to my Dad...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I hope you had a great week! My week started off super hot but by the end of the week it actually got chilly. It's almost sweater weather time wahooooo!

I want to start off by sharing a scripture, it's 1 Nephi 15: 24 where Nephi is explaining to Laman and Lemuel what the iron rod represents. He says,

"And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction."

And then in 2 Nephi 32: 3 it says,

''feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do."

These scriptures just reminded me how important it is to study the scriptures and apply them into our lives. I love how it says that the fiery darts of the adversary of the adversary won't overpower us unto blindness if we hold to the rod and listen to the word of God.

This week there was some exciting stuff that happened! Yesterday we found another awesome investigator!

We were actually waiting for the bus to head up to his apartment when a guy in a jeep that was driving by rolled down his window and was like, "hey are you guys from Utah?" I was like, "yeah I am" and he said, "Awesome! Stay there for a second!" A couple of minutes later he came back and told us to hop in and that'd he drive us wherever we were going. We thought it was like a member who saw us and was just offering a ride so we hopped on in. But it turned out to be a running back for the U and he said he was just looking out for his Utah boyz. :) He said his name was L___ and that he graduated last year and that he recognized us because a lot of his friends back in Utah were LDS. That was super cool!

But anyway, about our new investigator. Lucky dropped us off at his apartment and his name is J___, he said that he hasn't been religious his whole life but in the past couple of years he has investigated just about every religion he can think of. He said, "everything from Catholicism to Buddhism and from Judaism to Shintoism." But he says that none of them have clicked with him. He is just trying to find a religion that can help him be the best person he can be and none of them have motivated or helped him to do that. But then he was studying at a school in England and said that some classmates in his dorm introduced him to our church and then when he got back to America he researched it a lot. He went to the visitor center just a little while ago and loved it. Thats when he decided to start meeting with us. So we met with him yesterday and by the end of the lesson he said he felt like something clicked. He loved that the Gospel is a gospel of action and change and not just all talk. He even said that he wants to be Baptised if he comes to know that the Book of Mormon is True! :)

It was amazing to see how the experiences in his life have prepared him to hear the gospel! It's amazing how God is preparing people!

N___ is still preparing to be baptized and is doing great!

I'm loving it out here and sharing the Gospel is

the best thing in the world!!

Have a great week!

-Elder Burgon
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