Happy Birthday to You

This week was a good week.Thanks for all the birthday wishes. That meant a lot to me. Also a shoutout to my bro Josh. He's the best. This week we found some pretty positive news. We found a really positive family. I really hope that they will progress. We have been working with this one family. The mom and dad, who aren't married, are having some relationship problems and we have been trying to help them get through those. The dad wants to go the United States to try to earn more money. She doesn't want him to go. He is not respectful to her and she really wants him to change. We had a really good lesson with them. I felt the spirit strongly. I don't know if I have ever felt the spirit like that before. We talked about what things they could change to make their relationship better. She said, "I don't want him to go to the United States. I want him to stop hitting me, I want him to stop drinking. I want him to be respectful." She then started to cry. Before this I was feeling really sad. I saw that their relationship was broken. I compared it to that of my parents and the relationship of my family. I could see their potential and I wanted to help them so much. I asked the man if he was willing to change. He just kind of smirked and smiled and said, "Not right now." That, mixed with the tears of his wife, made me very angry. This was a different kind of anger though. I feel like it was the same kind of anger that Christ had when he kicked the vendors out of the temple. I was so upset that this guy was willfully hurting a daughter of God and the mother of his children and looked at it like some kind of joke and was not wanting to change. I spoke to him very clearly that he needed to repent and so that he knew that it was not a joke. We know that families are ordained of God and are the most important thing we have here. After the lesson while walking home I realized that I felt a little bit like Christ felt in that moment I mentioned and that he was angry because the people were desecrating something sacred. I learned a little more how important families are. That was a neat spiritual revelation that I received this week.

Thanks for everything.

Elder Rowberry