Hello again from ATL!!!

Hey y'all,

Everyone doing good today? Good :) Keep smiling!!!! You never know whose heart that amazing smile might help today :) Remember this also... the greatest testimony is who you are! So be happy! Smile! Love and serve everyone! And know that God loves you, that the Savior loves you and I love you (my companion does too!)

I don't have much time and my keyboard is messed up so it takes FOREVER to type anything... but here's a short story.

We're teaching this lady... she's been working double shifts at her job to try and care for her family of A LOT of kids... first time we sat down with her, all we did was tell her about the Book of Mormon and share our testimonies... we invited her to read, pray, be baptized (if she came to know it was true) and come to church. She agreed somewhat half hearted...and informed us that she worked on Sundays and couldn't come to church. Long story short... we kept coming back over a couple week span and asked her how her reading and praying had been going. She kept saying "Haven't be able to yet", etc., etc.... but we didn't give up.... we went over there just a few days ago and we come to find out that she started reading and praying. We could see it in her before she even told us... she was so much happier and just had a glow about her... turns out that she got mad one day and turned to the Book of Mormon for whatever reason... again, long story short... that decision led her to quit her job so she could be with her family more and come to church, start and continue reading the Book of Mormon and praying every day and commiting herself to be baptized. She told us last night that the Book of Mormon has changed her life... that its bringing her back from a place that she never thought she could come back from...

So point of this VERY condensed and short story (again, I'm sorry I don't have the time to elaborate)... the point is that I can testify to each of you that the Book of Mormon is true. It will help you... it will help you in any and every situation you find yourself in. You will recieve blessings from reading it. God will speak to you through its pages. I invite each of you to read the Book of Mormon each day of your life... and to do so prayerfully. You will be blessed... and you won't just change for the better each day... but you will change for the better for the eternities.

Last note... as we're healed, we help heal others (through the Atonement)... but we can heal ourselves by loving and serving others... by helping others be healed. As we help others be healed through Christ, we too are healed. He lifts up His hands to heal us... but we are His hands. He will lift you up as you lift others.

I love each of you so much... have a blessed week!

-Elder Wahlen