Fun Teaching the Gospel

We went to the Westman Islands Friday and Saturday to teach with the Elders. The Elders had 8 appointments but only 2 kept their appointments. One appointment was our only members on the island and it is always fun to visit with them and continue to teach. The other family is from Uganda. It is amazing how many people think of God as one who is going to severely punish those who do not follow Jesus Christ. When we told them everyone will have an opportunity to accept Jesus Christ and follow him even if it is after they die, they wanted to know if those who were bad people were going to burn in hell. We taught the resurection and judgement and how God is our loving Heavenly Father and is doing all he can to help us return to live with him and even those they thought should go to hell might have an opportunity for a better resurection. I am certainly grateful for the knowledge God wants us all to return to Him - Moses 1:39. We are looking forward to helping this family learn it to. Going to the Westman Islands is an expensive trip and as we move into Winter a very rough trip. We only go about once a month which makes teaching difficult as sometimes those we are teaching are not available when we can go. So in the case of this family we are going to experiment with using SKYPE to teach them. We have an appointment Wednesday evening with them on SKYPE.

I should remember to take pictures of the families we visit but as always I forget to do it. So instead here are some other pictures. The first is looking at Iceland from the ship - we live on the flat lands sort of between the two raised areas. Next is a shot of the area where early members of the Church were baptised - near our Elders. The shot from the air is when Amanda was here and we did the twin engine flight. The Puffins were taken when it was getting dark and my camera said 1/8 of a second so I was surprised they even turned out.