I mentioned last week about how a member brought a guy named Jeremiah to church. We were able to have our first lesson with him! We had that member, who is in another ward, come to the first lesson with us. The lesson was absolutely amazing! We applied How to begin teaching, and I’ve never seen it go so well! It set up our purpose so well with Jeremiah, and we were able to establish why we were truly their as missionaries! We then taught Jeremiah the Restoration, and he had some very good questions, and the Spirit was definitely there! I love reciting The First Vision within the Restoration lesson, it always invites the Holy Ghost! During the lesson, he really opens up with us and share with us his life story. Man has he had a rough go, yet he has remained happy and hopeful throughout his life. We gave him a copy of The Book Of Mormon to him, and invited him to read and pray about it. He said he would! We then asked him if he would like to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone holding priesthood authority from God? He said that he wanted to learn more before making a commitment, but he told us when he does, he wouldn’t have anything against being baptized! How amazing! I truly know that our hard work is starting to pay off. I’ve noticed as I’ve put in the effort throughout my mission, Heavenly Father starts to bless us with people to teach! What an amazing blessing that is to be trusted by God to teach someone about His Son and the Gospel He has provided us with! We can’t wait to see Jeremiah continue to progress in the Gospel!
While we were Tracting, we had a pretty interesting conversation with a man. He invited us into his home, and said he wanted to discuss about our gospel. He said he was Christian and had some questions for us that he wanted to ask. We were a little weary of some bible bashing coming our way, but it was a testimony strengthening experience! We sat at his kitchen table and he asked us the first question, “What are your beliefs?” We were able to teach him the Restoration, and testified to him what we knew to be true. A sweet Spirit entered into the room, and we could see him feeling those feelings! We could see his countenance change a little. He continued to ask questions like “What do you believe about Repentance? What does The Book Of Mormon teach?” All these questions he was gearing to help him find something to contend with us about, but we answered boldly and testified, thus inviting the Spirit! Then there was a point when we saw his countenance change, and he became quite contentious. He then asked “The Bible teaches us not to add upon it, why are you guys doing that?” We testified to him about what we knew to be true, that we believed that the passage in Revelations only applies to that book. The Holy Bible was compiled after the Book Of revelations was written, so it would only make sense that it only applied to that book. Anyways he told us that the answer we gave made perfect sense, but he said he wouldn’t believe in what we taught. We politely left his home, and my testimony definitely left strengthened! A day or so later I was reading in Mosiah 12:19. This is when the wicked priests of King Noah are questioning Abinidi. I feel this verse explains what happened with this man perfectly! It states,
19
And they began to question him, that they might cross him, that
thereby they might have wherewith to accuse him; but he answered
them boldly, and withstood all their questions, yea, to their
astonishment; for he did withstand them in all their questions, and
did confound them in all their words.
We answered this man boldly, and testified to him boldly, and we saw
the Spirit touch his heart! It was sad to see him reject the Spirit
and our message, but it was a testimony builder to me that what we teach
is absolutely true! I love being able to feel the Spirit. It makes me
smile and makes me so happy when I do! Also while Tracting we were
able to pass out a couple of copies of the Book Of Mormon! We know it
may not be the time for those people to convert, but if they have a copy
of The Book Of Mormon within their home, someday they will feel an urge
or prompting to pick it up and read it! I love Tracting so much! It
always strengthens my testimony.
We contacted
people we had tracted into previously, and set up some return
appointments, so we are excited about those! We are especially excited
about Katie. She told us she hasn’t had time to read because she got in
a car wreck and her son is going in for surgery soon, so she said we
should definitely come back! We set up an appointment with her for next Wednesday, so that should be awesome!
General Confetence was incredible! Wow, how amazing! I truly and fully sustain our prophet President Russell M. Nelson, I know he is a man of God and that he truly receives revelation for the whole world! We witnessed these revelations being given to us through prophets and apostles in action. I’m going to remember this General Conference for awhile! There were some amazing inspired changes that will help missionary work progress! The Lord is truly continuing to hasten his work! Some of my favorite talks were President Nelson’s and President Eyring’s talks in the Sunday Morning session about how crucial it is to receive and learn to receive personal revelation. Those were answers to some of my questions! In total I had all of my questions I had written down answered! I hope you all enjoyed General Conference too! I’m truly going to take our prophet, President Nelson’s Council when he asked us to study and ponder the messages given over the next 6 months. All of these messages are inspired of God! I know they are! What a blessing it is to have these messages to look to for guidance along with the scriptures. What a special thing is was to sustain our prophet, the quorum of the twelve apostles and all of our other church leaders!
General Confetence was incredible! Wow, how amazing! I truly and fully sustain our prophet President Russell M. Nelson, I know he is a man of God and that he truly receives revelation for the whole world! We witnessed these revelations being given to us through prophets and apostles in action. I’m going to remember this General Conference for awhile! There were some amazing inspired changes that will help missionary work progress! The Lord is truly continuing to hasten his work! Some of my favorite talks were President Nelson’s and President Eyring’s talks in the Sunday Morning session about how crucial it is to receive and learn to receive personal revelation. Those were answers to some of my questions! In total I had all of my questions I had written down answered! I hope you all enjoyed General Conference too! I’m truly going to take our prophet, President Nelson’s Council when he asked us to study and ponder the messages given over the next 6 months. All of these messages are inspired of God! I know they are! What a blessing it is to have these messages to look to for guidance along with the scriptures. What a special thing is was to sustain our prophet, the quorum of the twelve apostles and all of our other church leaders!
Happy Easter as well! I’m so overly grateful for our Savior Jesus
Christ’s gift He has given to us, The Atonement. One of my favorite
verses about Jesus Christ is in Luke 24:5-6,
5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
What an amazing scripture! Because He lives, and Because He is
Risen, we can rise once again and be forgiven of our sins and live with
our Heavenly Father again! Words can’t express to the slightest of how
grateful I am for our Savior, but as we keep God’s Commandments and try
to become more like Jesus Christ, we can show Him that we love Him, and
we are eternally grateful for His sacrifice! I hope we all remember
what He has done for us, and as Elder Uchtdorf said, “Behold The Man!”
I hope we all remember His example, and truly learn to “Behold The
Man!” I love each of you, and hope you have a wonderful week.
Love,
Elder Bailey
Pics:
1. Motivation for when we leave the apartment every morning!
2. Fort Collins Stake Breakfast! (At the Stake presidents house)
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