Oct 31st-The snow ball is rolling

Hia guys!

This week the HAMM snowball is finally rolling & picking up speed! We had a wonderful meeting with the stake president, bishop and mission president and got the green light to have sacrament meeting starting on NOV. 13th! I couldn't help but to just smile the whole rest of the day i felt so happy for all the wonderful members! The last 4 weeks we have been gathering the members in & helping them build their testimony's & now were getting everyone stoked for church! They are all so happy its going to be wonderful. Pres. chad will be attending our first sacrament meeting, which will be held in sis. migdis garage!! haha its bound to be interesting!😋 Lots of prayers will be gratefully accepted! Something that struck me this week was when we were teaching a LA guy named dwanye & his gogo, he asked- "how is that we know for ourselfs that the church is true? My testimony was just kinda passed on to me my my parents, i honestly really dont know for myself" Instantly i thought of a email my dad sent me about how we can truly know that this church is true. How do we know? - the spirit. There is no thing that will truly convert us to this church as does the spirit. We can say the gospel of Christ is true & that we can be with God again some day etc by studying the scriptures & teachings of the prophets. But we will never really know my only just doing that alone. For myself as i was teachi9ng, i instantly recalled that the atonement was the key factor to my personal conversion, through the mercy of our fellow brother the spirit touched my heart and i knew that i was clean and i knew that Christs gospel was really restored to this earth once again. IF WE DONT KNOW, WE WILL EVENTUALLY FALL. We as embers of this church must know without a doubt that this is the real deal, or its just a matter of time were are faith will fail us and we will become lost. The tools are placed around us for this to happen, lets take advantage of them hey?

 Love you guys!


-Elder Swindle
 selfy! me and elder diogo! just taken with my paintball clothes haha not the best game today....


 HAMM.anskraal
 cutest colored baby around, also bro. washington
 paintball today! Me with my boys
 

Oct 31, 2016, 1:20 PM

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