Aloha!

HELLO, how goes it everyone?

At this point it almost seems like I should just tell you all these stories in person in a couple weeks here haha.

This week was good, we identified a bunch of potential places that could serve as our temporary meetinghouse for the Church here in Vijayawada, we are just waiting to hear from Bangalore on how to move forward here.

Cool experience: we have been teaching this cute family for a few weeks now and this past week, the grandma was there visiting.  As soon as we arrived at the home she started peppering us with questions and doubts about who we were and what our beliefs are.  What made it more interesting was that she is from Jehovah's Witness background (oh brother).  She expressed to us that she believes we were all born in sin and that there's no way we came from the presence of God because we're all sinners!  Each time we tried to answer her question with God's beautiful plan of salvation she would hit us with a new doubt, so much that she wouldn't let us answer.  That morning we had studied in companionship study about the Christlike attribute of patience and long-suffering, so we were both trying our hardest to put theory into application haha.  After this sister had finished her series of skeptical "sermons," something changed in her, even her countenance changed.  She recognized that our conversation was a bit one-sided and she then asked us kindly to share our beliefs with her.  So we did.  She loved our message so much that she made us dinner that night and invited us to come back the next day to share more.  As she learned about the nature of our service she spoke of how honorable she thought this is that we, at this age, leave our families for two years, forsake the world, and help others learn more about and come closer to God.  She said she felt that we were like her own sons.

I'm having the time of my life out here, despite the heat and humidity.

Have a great week everyone, keep the faith!

Elder Tuscano