One of the Most Intense Lessons of my Life

Well this week I was on a companion exchange with one of my favorite missionaries, Elder Ablett (He's British, and is quite smart :). So we had a lesson scheduled with one of our investigators who was homeless, but has since started staying with one of the members here in grand falls. Due to the bad things that he got into around the age of 14 he has since had a lot of the problems that usually come when we pass thorugh a lot of sin, and all that nasty stuff. Well as he has tried to leave sin, it has been kind of like trying to get bubble gum out of his hair. It hurts. And it takes time to get it all out,. Well when Elder ablett and I went to teach him, he had theoretically been wrestling with one of these chunks of bubble gum (something that Elder Fairbanks and I pointed out to him that he really needed to work on). Well after trying to get it out, with minimal effort he decided it would be better to get ignore it. So when elder ablett and I went to teach him it was an awkward, intense lesson where he basically demanded I apologize for telling him he had gum in his hair, but at the end of the day that would accomplish nothing! I held true to my guns, and told him that he could do better, and that this should give him hope! I shared with him my love for him, and that we would be there to help him get it out if he was willing to let us help him. We've all got a little bit of bubble gum in our hair, for many of us its our pride, for others it's our unkind judgements of others, and many of the other sins that keep us from perfection. I love ya'll lots! Elder Johnson This is CornerBrook, NL! it's beautiful