Euless, TEXAS

Hey yall!

Oh man it was great to hear from my family yesterday! I LOVE all of you!

This past week was really promising, we were finding, teaching some new people and enjoyed zone training learning from other missionaries what we could do better to be better missionaries. And then going to my new trainer meeting friday morning was fun! I learned so much about how to become a good trainer and i am so excited to train on wednesday! it really hit me how being an example is the best way to teach ANYONE.

And i also got to see the Moe family and that was just amazing!

Then after the meeting on friday things just went downhill, it ended kinda roughly. Everyone was just being rude and not one was keeping appointments, then on saturday after we helped open some new apartments after things did not go well either. In fact i was sitting down waiting for our ride to come pick us up, well some lady came and started talking to me about " mormons " and i felt pretty good telling and teaching her i thought in my mind that we had found a new investigator! but then she started saying really rude things and basically " testing " my belief you could say. and at the end of the conversation when i had to leave she told me that she was trying to get me out of "mormonism" because it was a false religion, and she would pray for me. I bore my testimony to her and said good luck and left. I was really annoyed the rest of the night thinking i did not do a good job teaching or even just telling her i knew it was true.

It really made me think about my Testimony. And how important it is. it was funny because yesterday in church our lesson was making sure our testimony was strong enough to stand ANYTHING that happens throughout our lives. And i thought that was so interesting. It made me think about mine, sure i would like to think that, but is it strong enough to stand everything?

that saturday night i prayed, asking about everything and help to stay strong, and i know that helped me build my testimony even more, i had no doubt in my mind that God and His son lives and answers prayers, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and we are lead by one today, the Book of Mormon is the word of God!

I felt better that night, and i know things are gonna happen in our lives and people will say things to hurt us or you could even say change our beliefs. But if we have a strong Testimony, they can never tear us down.

I found a talk by Elder Holland talking about adversity and such, he said one if Sister Hollands favorite scripture is Romans 8:31 and its somethings we all should remember. and this scripture put me at ease with everything that happened.
"If God be for us, who can abe against us?"



i challenge everyone to strengthen your own testimony.
And I know that scripture is true in Romans, we just need to remember it!

I LOVE YOU ALL! cant wait to meet my new trainee!

LOVE
Elder Boettcher