Friday, January 17, 2014

January 13, 2014 " This is why I am serving a mission"


This week was fantastic and packed with lots of things, hopefully you

will think that all of this was exciting because for me it was.



We taught a number of people this week from many different backgrounds

and histories. Duncan is an elderly man in his 70/80's who is a bible

scholar but doesn't like to contend. He just had a triple bypass heart

surgery and was walking around without being sore 5 days later. He

said it was by the grace of God. I agree. We taught about the

restoration of the gospel to him and he understood all of it and had

bible verses memorized about it. It was intersecting to teach another

person that is scripturally sound.


Then taught a new lady named Charlotte. She is in her 80's and was

found by another elderly man of the congregation who took flyers of

a joint concert of a Catholic Church and a LDS Church. He invited his

neighbors to come when he found Charlotte outside the house. She went with

them and then came to church 3 times and now she wants us to teach

her. In the lesson she explained a little more of her background where

she remembers going to the Salt Lake Temple visitors center and seeing

the tabernacle. She remembers a lot of it like it was yesterday. Her

whole life she was searching for a church that held high standards and

was not centered on money. She said most of her friends back in

Washington wouldn't go to church with her anywhere. So when she was

planning on moving she prayed that she could find a church and friends

that fit her standards. Now she is preparing herself to be baptized on

Feb. 1.


Taught another family about temples as they are going to see the open

house of the Gilbert Temple. The father is the only one that is apart

of the church but the others have gone. We shared a video about

temples and talked about it and the importance of temples in the Old

Testament as well as now. They loved it and are even more excited to

go and take a look at it on the inside.

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