Sharing "The Music of the Gospel"

Hello all!

Due to last weeks wonderfully wordy letter, this weeks entry will be sublimely simple.

We've been doing all that we can to involve members in sharing the gospel with others. Elder Butterfield and I are in this congregation here in Gainesville where about 150 people attend. There are about 400 on the records, so many don't come for health reasons or otherwise. There's also another set of missionaries in our congregation - some wonderful Sister missionaries. 

Now, with so many people to visit, and with the thought that we're to preach the gospel to "every creature", "all nations", and "every tongue and kindred", as Christ says, that's a daunting task for a couple teenagers! In fact, it's impossible without the help of members. So we've been doing everything we can to involve the members in sharing the gospel with their friends. Something really fun we are doing now is having people take out their smartphones during our dinner appointments, scroll through their list of friends of Facebook, and then pick somebody who they feel could use a gospel message. Then they go to mormon.org and pick out a little video or something they want to share with this friend, and just send it right there. Missionary work! 

  I'm blessed with lots of opportunities to play viola here. Our organist has a PhD in Organ Performance and is a phenomenal musician, and we're going to be performing together in sacrament meeting in two weeks. We'll also be doing a gospel music fireside within the next month or two. I'm pretty surprised that I can still play viola. Would my college professor be appalled at my technique? Yeah, probably. But I thank God that I'm still able to play well despite the absence of practice. 

There's a great video online that's produced by the church - it's called "The Music of the Gospel." It's really powerful and I love it. Everybody reading this should look it up right now if you haven't already seen it! That's an invitation. Nope, nope, don't just move on now that I'm inviting you to do something - open up a new tab and look it up right now please.  (click HERE)  I think it's about 4 minutes long. You can probably spare that. Thank you :)

Anyway, I love you all so much! Have a great, great week!