We Are All Children of God and He Loves All of Us So Much

Monday night we got to meet with Cam because he was down from San Francisco for the weekend. It was super awesome. We taught him the Law of Chastity, which is a lot less awkward when they already live it, and about eternal marriage, temple, and family history. Cam loves the church so much. We set a baptismal date for September 19th!!! He is so excited but also nervous because he hasn't seen a baptismal service yet so we are going to try and find one in the mission that we can go to with him. Its so cool to see the bond we have made with him and the faith he has. Last night he even reminded Nielsen and I to say our prayers before we went to sleep which was pretty funny to have an investigator remind the missionaries.

On Tuesday we met with his cousin Giorgio again. He told us he had been reading the Book of Mormon which was perfect since our lesson was all about the Book of Mormon. After we taught him and answered questions we did a mini church tour and showed him pictures of the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency and talked about them and then we showed him pictures of different Book of Mormon stories to help him understand more.

On Wednesday we met with Bobby and encouraged him to stick with his date of September 26th. We watched President Eyring's talk "This Day" and talked more about how we feel he is ready to be baptized. He has been around the church for such a long time and his testimony of the gospel is so strong.

On Sunday we got to teach the same marine we taught last week. He started reading the Book of Mormon too! He is Jewish but told us he likes a lot of what we believe and likes the Book of Mormon. After reading it though he was concerned about what would happen to him if he gets deployed and kills people since the gospel is about peace. We told him about President Hinckley's talk "War and Peace" Its so great that we have modern day prophets who speak the words that people in our time need to hear.

I love this place so much even with the crazy driving and traffic and strange people we see walking around. We are all children of God and he loves all of us so much. Sometimes I feel like Alma and Amulek and the Sons of Mosiah where I can't stand to think of people suffering because they aren't able to return to live with Heavenly Father. I love helping people and having this chance to serve the Lord with my whole heart everyday. I love these people and they are good and I need to be with them.

Love

Elder Cheever

Elders Cheever and Nielsen with Bobby