Hey greetings from Kentucky. It's been pretty cold here the last couple weeks. I have officially been out for over a year on the the mission! It's crazy to think that last year I had just left home.
I'm doing good here in Louisville there are alot of people from alot of different places that I've met. It's been really cool to help people see the blessings that come from learning about the gospel and helping them understand why Jesus is our savior and what that actually means.
There is a person that we are working with right now who has been a member of our church for many years but he was really struggling with things like depression and anxiety. We showed him a video where one of our church leaders talks about his experience with mental illness and how we belive that God has given us modern medicine to help bless everyone. He talks about how if you were to have apendicitis you would get a blessing and go to the hospital, he continues to talk about how mental illness is the same.
We shared this with our friend and he said that he just felt like he had never looked at it like that before. We teach that God can help us overcome any obstacles but sometimes he puts the tools we need right in front of us and we don't use them because we don't want to be judged or look weak. We encouraged our friend to ask God for direction and when we came back the next week he said that he was now taking medication and that he felt like a burden had been lifted because he accepted that he couldn't just do it alone.
