Thursday, April 9, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Passing Out the Book of Mormon
Well this week flew by and I can tell the next five are going to as well because Elder Taylor and I have such a good time!
First Story: So a couple weeks ago I went on splits with a zone leader and we ended up finding this girl, talking to her for a bit, and then giving her a Book of Mormon. We stopped by and didn’t see her the following week but just last week we stopped by again and she had read the entire Book of Mormon and prayed about it. She said the she knew it was true!!! That was the first time on my mission that anyone has ever done that. She said she just likes to read. But of course to every investigator there is a snag... she has this lame boy friend who is a real jerk and doesn’t like us very much. Hopefully she will end up going to church and he won’t be so mad at her. But ya she is awesome.
Next Story: So Schenectady is a pretty hairy place in some parts of the city. Anyways we decided to go there and just walk around and talk to people and hand out cards and stuff like that. Well we ended up talkin to a bunch of people, some crazy, some weird, some really nice, and of course some real gangstas. Oddly enough the gangsters were the nicest and the most interested of them all. It was really cool talking to them. We ended up giving one guy a Book of Mormon. He said he would definitely check it out.
First Story: So a couple weeks ago I went on splits with a zone leader and we ended up finding this girl, talking to her for a bit, and then giving her a Book of Mormon. We stopped by and didn’t see her the following week but just last week we stopped by again and she had read the entire Book of Mormon and prayed about it. She said the she knew it was true!!! That was the first time on my mission that anyone has ever done that. She said she just likes to read. But of course to every investigator there is a snag... she has this lame boy friend who is a real jerk and doesn’t like us very much. Hopefully she will end up going to church and he won’t be so mad at her. But ya she is awesome.
Next Story: So Schenectady is a pretty hairy place in some parts of the city. Anyways we decided to go there and just walk around and talk to people and hand out cards and stuff like that. Well we ended up talkin to a bunch of people, some crazy, some weird, some really nice, and of course some real gangstas. Oddly enough the gangsters were the nicest and the most interested of them all. It was really cool talking to them. We ended up giving one guy a Book of Mormon. He said he would definitely check it out.
New Comp...Same Hard Work
Elder Taylor is my new comp and he is great. He has a good sense of humor, works well, has been out for nine months(he came out in my mission group from the MTC), cleans good, and is happy to be out here. He is from Draper, Utah. Neither of us are senior comps. For two reasons: 1. we have both been out the same amount of time. 2. in this mission our president decided not to have senior comps at all because then the junior comps would just blame everything on the senior comps and he thinks that after three months everyone is equal. I had to teach the Gospel Principles Class lesson with only two minutes notice. The zone leaders are always bugging me about numbers and telling me that my numbers are not high enough....tell you what, I'm gettin tired of all these numbers. I wish I could just go out and work. As of right now we don't have any investigators with a baptismal date but we are working on a few. I don't know I guess I just feel a little overwhelmed and a little stressed but I'll work it out and things will get better.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Holy Ghost
Last night we went to this guy's house who has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot and has been having some really good questions. He had some concerns about the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost because he thought he had already received it. He also wanted to know our opinion on why the Book of Mormon was necessary in comparison to just having the Bible. We shared Matt 18:16 (or something like that) that talks about "by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established" and a bunch of others, and showed him how they support each other like Matt 7:14-15--- 2Ne 31:17 and others. That helped him out. Then to address the Holy Ghost topic we shared Acts 8 and explain that it has to be by the laying on of hands. We can feel that Holy Ghost prompts us or bears witness of truth before we have the gift but it is not constantly. Then I shared some other things. I shared that Christ would not give the commandment to be baptized of water and of fire (The Holy Ghost) if we already had it. But he gave the commandment because it was something we had to willfully "DO". It wouldn't just happen to us. That made a lot of sense to him. Also I compared the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost (that fire inside us) as a constant burning flame, that will help to keep us clean after we are baptized. To end... when I was there we prayed a couple of times so he could know if what we were teaching was truth. I did not feel like anything that came out of my mouth that night was from me but that the Holy Ghost was there telling me what to say. It was a great experience.
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