in Banglore for a
year without transfer
Bengaluru Zone mission tour
What is May Day? No
idea haha. I think it's a made up holiday they have in India because
there's like no other holidays in the month of May, so the first Monday
of May is called May Day so everyone is off work for the most part. For
May Day, my companion and I have traveled to this random village in
Karnataka to shop at a cool market where you can get things for pretty
cheap. However, the internet usage is also cheap haha so hopefully this
email comes through.
Cool experience this
week: we started teaching Rishebh this week. We had kind of a rocky
start with teaching him until this past Thursday.
I don't remember how much I shared last week about Rishebh, but he is a
chemical engineer for Shell and is super sharp haha, probably the most
intellectual person I've as yet taught on my mission. He thinks in a
very practical way and is adjusting to the spiritual things we discuss.
Anyway, we taught him the first couple of lessons and he was just
struggling to wrap his head around the concept that God really is our
Father. On Thursday
morning, during our weekly planning session, Elder Raju and I discussed
what might help Rishbeh and we both felt impressed that we needed to
share Joseph Smith's experience with him. At first we sort of second
guessed the thought because he's from Hindu background and we thought he
may not exactly identify with Joseph Smith, nevertheless we acted on
the prompting--and we're so glad we did. He told us that he felt that
he had been in spiritual darkness from his birth until the time he met
us--like how the world was in spiritual darkness from the death of the
apostles until the First Vision in 1820. Since that night he's been
progressing considerably faster and really coming to understand and live
the gospel.
I hope everyone has a good week, and keep the faith!
Elder Tuscano
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