Hello Family,
This week has been pretty good. Yesterday
I had an amazing experience. I told you about our investigator named Dolly Davis already I think. It was really cool though because yesterday
E. Manwill and myself set a baptismal date with her. We planned on
talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ that day which is faith,
repentance, baptism, receiving the holy ghost, and enduring to the end.
The first two went fine, but when we started talking about baptism you
could tell that the spirit was really working hard on her and found a
soft spot in her heart. We read Mosiah 18:8-11 and when she read verse
11 she was speechless and just stared at the book with the biggest smile
on her face. We talked a little bit more about it and she explained to
us that she was ready to change her life. Like the scripture said, she
was ready to keep the commandments and come into the fold of Christ. The
spirit hit us like a wall prompting us to extend a date to her. We did
and she started crying so hard while covering her face. We sat
there for like 5 minutes while she attempted to compose herself. Dolly
went over to her calendar and marked the date wishing she had a
brighter highlighter to make that day stand out even more. It was an
amazing experience. Dolly has such a huge desire to be a part of the
gospel, it's amazing. She still has a few word of wisdom issues, but she
is trying extremely hard to get over it.
Oh, random
thought. We tracted for 8.5 hours this week. The most I have done so
far. Tracting is way fun. You meet so many cool people, but also some
people that are super sketchy. One guy that we ran into this week was
from England. He basically told us that he doesn't believe in god,
because there is no scientific proof. He also told us to read some book
by Christopher Hitchens. We pulled out our book and invited him to read
it. Then we promised him that if he read and prayed about it he would
know that god was there. He got super insulted by it and started talking
about how Joseph Smith was a con-man or something. And talked about how
the idea of finding the gold plates in a hole was an absurd lie.
Love you,
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