Stories from Ruth # 57

Okay... this is going to be a short email this week. I sent an email last week and it is still uploading so... hope this works!

We taught Theo all the commandments except and he is good! We also taught him the plan of salvation and he really enjoyed it! He has read up to 1 Nephi 20 and has also been reading D&C to prepare for institute.

The little boys are all doing good! They are so funny actually! Rafi and Erwin's mother is so sweet. Every time we go over to teach her boys she gives us a treat like chocolate from Ghana or caramel popcorn.

Saturday we met this guy named Ibrahim. He is a Muslim but he is looking for truth. We met him a couple of weeks ago and he said that he would call us and a week later he did. He told us that he wanted to meet and when we met him kept asking us to tell him what we know. We shared about the apostasy, restoration, and the Book of Mormon. Ibrahim told us afterwards that he felt like what we were sharing was true and that he had never had so many of his questions answered before.

I know that this church is true. I know that the message we share is true. God speaks to us. When

Adam fell, the Father withdrew and Jesus Christ was set as the mediator between us and our Heavenly Father. It is through His gospel that we can live with God again. Because the bible has been changed and many plain and precious truths have been lost we needed the Book of Mormon to restore that. We also needed a prophet who had the authority to establish and guide the church under the direction of Jesus Christ in these days. If there has always been revelation if Peter, James, and John, after they had taught with Christ still needed to learn and receive revelation once the Savior left them, so do we. We need revelation now in this day.

One of my favorite scriptures to share is 2 Nephi 29:7 "Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?
8 "Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
9 "And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever."
I know this is true. God's work is not finished and he still speaks to us if we are keeping his commandments and listening to his spirit.