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Well. Elder Holladay is home now. 

Now I'm with Elder Lewis. He is actually a stunning missionary. I am legitimately impressed with him.

It is an absolute honor to serve with him. 

We found this one indian brother, दीपक, he actually only knows Hindi and actually wants to learn about Jesus. This is really exciting because there is solid evidence from God that the hindi program is necessary. 

We went to an Indian market and it was incredible. Everybody was talking in Hindi and they had Hindi words all over the walls. Got some more lentils. (2 Samuel 17:28) We cooked up a bunch and now we're putting them in smoothies.

On Friday we got to give 4 priesthood blessings to some sick Indians. One परिवार gave us a bunch of duck curry  . We prayed for them in hindi and the older grandma of the house was crying with gratitude.

That evening I was offered sugar free soda and I said “no thank you, I don't eat sugar” and only ⅓ of the people there laughed. 

Elder Lewis and I have decided to give a lot more attention to social media work and we've been trying really hard to post often and come up with ideas lol.

We met with 14 year old Shubh again this week. This time his mother joined us! She was very impressed with हमरे हिन्दी. Shubh asked very deep questions about after death and how we really know this is all true. We talked about the Holy Ghost (पवित्र आत्मा) and the “warm feeling”. He said he felt it when he went to church. We tried to expound on that but then his mom was like “Ya, sometimes I get hot when I do hindu things” 

So that was tricky to sort out but I think we did.

We went to a hindi member's home and they fed us like 10 different curries and we did Come, Follow Me with them, miraculously, the sisters that cover that area in English stopped by! So they got curry and shared a powerful message as well. Then one of the sisters ate a habanero by accident. 

This week I read from 1 Kings 8 almost every day. It's one of the most profound chapters I've ever read in the Old Testament. It's the dedicatory prayer of Solomon's temple. It's all about covenants, Repentance, and God's power in delivering us. 

My favorite part is this little sequence in 46- 51. 

Basically its says if the people sin or get carried away captive (addictions…) and then

Consider in your heart (the sin) (the scripture uses “bethink” but look at the footnote

‘Repent’ and make supplication

Confess 

RETURN to God with FULL purpose of heart and soul (and return to the temple)

Pray

THEN, God will

Hear your prayer

“Maintain your cause” (I'm not exactly sure what this means, somebody with more wisdom than me, which is all of you, please let me know)

Forgive your sins

Have compassion on you 

Make you His

It's the doctrine of repentance?! Clearly taught in the Old Testament? No way.

Yes way.

And I know it's all true. I have experienced every single part of that. I know it's true. Repentance is just so so so good. It's not a bad thing 

Solomon says in verse 46 “for there is no man that sinneth not” we all sin. It's part of life. Of course we still try our best NOT TO- irregardless(), we all mess up→ thus we all have the सुन्दर opportunity to repent and have a stronger relationship with Jesus Christ because of it. 

The relationship with the savior that comes from repentance is the most precious thing we can have.