well HELLOOOO family and friends!!

 

     seams that everyone is doing well and I hope that to be true. I want to first start off by telling you all how much I love each and every one of you and how thankful I am for your love and prayers I have truly felt of your support the last few weeks and I am very thankful for that. well this was a very long busy hard and amazing week as im sure all the weeks ahead will feel the same as I keep putting all my effort into this work. I had many very cool experiences this week as a missionary I wish you could all just experience it for one day! its so fun hard scary interesting funny and spiritually uplifting thing ever. just one experience I would like to share will you all was from just the other night. we had a lead on a girl who lived in our same apts. so we went to stop by. I knocked on their door then hear a loud voice scream something I have no clue what. the door swung open and this girl stood there and just to give you a visual description of this lady she was wearing those really big baggy pants with all the chains on them (you know the ones that those scary people dancing in vines wear) grandma if your not sure what they are trust me they are unusual. then she wasn't wearing much on the top half of her body but she did have about three choker necklaces a million pricings and look like she just snorted a pound of cocaine. she quickly told us that she was just "looking through my attempted murder paper work" and that she was a stripper atheist... sooooo being human I quickly started to judge her and think man this is a lost cause. why are we wasting our time? but as she began to tell her story and explain her struggles I began to look at her through Christ eyes as I strive to be like him every day. I quickly felt a love for her as a fellow sibling of god and thought how much the gospel of Jesus Christ could help and guide her in her life. we shared a short lesson to her and I have no idea what she felt or what she will do because of it but I know that I felt the spirit as I boor testimony our saviors love for us to her. I have made it a goal now to never judge anyone I know at times it can be hard (trust me there are some characters out here) but you never know what they have or are going through but I do know that Christ loves all his children and I hope that will this each and every one of you will reach out to someone you know or maybe a random and help them feel of Christ love I know that as you do so you will feel a great joy.

 

 it’s so exciting hearing about everyone preparing and leaving on missions I wish you all threw best of luck and be prepared for an amazing experience! 

 

aunt Marcy happy birthday!

 

everyone please wish my favorite little sister a very happy birthday Sunday. she is turning the big 1 7 !!! love you Carly!

 

well I leave you all with a quote that I found this week "if you want something you've never had you have to be willing to do something you've never done" 

 

love you all so much and you are all in my prayers hope you have a great week and strive to draw nearer to Christ in every aspect of your life 

 

sincerely your friend Elder Demke