Dear Family and Friends,
I received tonight this letter on e-mail and wanted to share it with you. I gave this man a tour of the conference center yesterday in Salt Lake City,. I was so impressed with him and his desire to learn. It was a great thrill for me to introduce the Book of Mormon to him and to bear my testimony about this great book. I was also privileged to share with him the story of the restoration of the gospel and again bear my testimony. I could feel the spirit so strong.
I wanted to share with you the letter I received today from this great man. I hope that the missionaries can continue to teach him. I am so grateful to be a missionary and the great experiences that I have each week.
Love,
Mom, Grandma, Lavona Richardson
I received tonight this letter on e-mail and wanted to share it with you. I gave this man a tour of the conference center yesterday in Salt Lake City,. I was so impressed with him and his desire to learn. It was a great thrill for me to introduce the Book of Mormon to him and to bear my testimony about this great book. I was also privileged to share with him the story of the restoration of the gospel and again bear my testimony. I could feel the spirit so strong.
I wanted to share with you the letter I received today from this great man. I hope that the missionaries can continue to teach him. I am so grateful to be a missionary and the great experiences that I have each week.
Love,
Mom, Grandma, Lavona Richardson
Mrs. Richardson,
My name is David Stanton and you gave me my tour of the conference center on Wednesday. I wanted to thank you for your kindness and enthusiasm in sharing a wonderful building and your faith with me. I have been most impressed by my visit to Salt Lake. I want you to know I went to the Deseret book store and purchased a copy of the Book of Mormon and look forward to reading it. I think too often we as people focus on the divisions between us. This is especially true when it comes to faith. I am grateful for the opportunity to have met you and the other kind people of faith I have had the pleasure to meet on my visit here.
I want to tell you again how much your enthusiasm and joy made me feel very welcome as you took me through the tour. I spent ten years in the US Army. I spent a year in Saudi Arabia and a year in Korea. I have lived in Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Wyoming, and South Dakota during my life. In all of my travels I have never been more impressed by a place or the people in it than I have been with Salt Lake City and the good people I met. I have been told by many people that I must remember that there are bad people everywhere, but I choose to focus instead on the fact that there are good people everywhere. There are no better anywhere than the Mormon people of Faith, including you that I had the pleasure to meet this week. As a Catholic I am first a follower of Jesus Christ who seeks to reflect His goodness and to live as He commanded. We share that belief and I recognized in you and the other kind people I met the hearts of followers of Christ. I hope to come again, and if I do I hope that I can come say hello to you at the conference center.
Thank you again for your kindness and your time,
In Christ,
Dave
My name is David Stanton and you gave me my tour of the conference center on Wednesday. I wanted to thank you for your kindness and enthusiasm in sharing a wonderful building and your faith with me. I have been most impressed by my visit to Salt Lake. I want you to know I went to the Deseret book store and purchased a copy of the Book of Mormon and look forward to reading it. I think too often we as people focus on the divisions between us. This is especially true when it comes to faith. I am grateful for the opportunity to have met you and the other kind people of faith I have had the pleasure to meet on my visit here.
I want to tell you again how much your enthusiasm and joy made me feel very welcome as you took me through the tour. I spent ten years in the US Army. I spent a year in Saudi Arabia and a year in Korea. I have lived in Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Wyoming, and South Dakota during my life. In all of my travels I have never been more impressed by a place or the people in it than I have been with Salt Lake City and the good people I met. I have been told by many people that I must remember that there are bad people everywhere, but I choose to focus instead on the fact that there are good people everywhere. There are no better anywhere than the Mormon people of Faith, including you that I had the pleasure to meet this week. As a Catholic I am first a follower of Jesus Christ who seeks to reflect His goodness and to live as He commanded. We share that belief and I recognized in you and the other kind people I met the hearts of followers of Christ. I hope to come again, and if I do I hope that I can come say hello to you at the conference center.
Thank you again for your kindness and your time,
In Christ,
Dave
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