I don't have much time at all, but this week was another one of work and uplifting experiences. . We had to drop the young couple with the drug addictions, and that was kind of a blow. We had done everything we could for them, they just didn't want it enough. Also, one of our other promising investigators (Casimero) is moving back to Mexico, but we had an amazing lesson with him about faith when he just happened to be at a members house when we were teaching family home evening. It is amazing how when you are just doing what you should, the lord puts those who need to hear the message in your path. And I found myself in my first bible bash this week. Don't worry, we weren't looking for it. We were getting ready to leave an investigators house after teaching him and his friend (a fairly weak member and new member) when they came to the door. The other church missionaries saw us and immediately started their rant and threw a number of scriptures at us, blocking the doorway to leave.
We kindly bore our testimonies, said we respect them, and tried to leave, when one of the more zealous ones stopped us in the door and started preaching how all our feelings of the spirit were of the devil, and how the only way to know the truth was to study the bible, not these made up "feelings". I wanted to leave, but had a pretty amazing experience. I felt exactly how Ammon described, being filled with the spirit and just spoke, the words just coming out, just skipping my brain. I started testifying, fairly bluntly and powerfully, how it was sad they didn't believe that God loves his children enough to talk to us, how we do not trust in the teachings of men, but of God, and how the spirit shows the truth to us. That just made them really mad, and clearly didn't change their minds, and at the time I really wondered why the spirit would have me speak these things to people who were so hard hearted. I actually felt pretty bad, because we actually aren't every suppose to call them out like that, just leave. But after they left, the weak, recent member bore his testimony to the investigator, how the confusion of those people who just came is why we need a prophet of God to guide us, because we can't trust in our own interpretations, that is why we need the direction of the prophet and faith in God. The spirit had me say those things for the member, not for the angry bible bashers. Now I am not going to try in the slightest to bible bash, but it was a really amazing spiritual experience, and further confirmation that this is the one true church of Jesus Christ. it was just a really cool experience for me. The work is going good down here, and we are improving every day.
We kindly bore our testimonies, said we respect them, and tried to leave, when one of the more zealous ones stopped us in the door and started preaching how all our feelings of the spirit were of the devil, and how the only way to know the truth was to study the bible, not these made up "feelings". I wanted to leave, but had a pretty amazing experience. I felt exactly how Ammon described, being filled with the spirit and just spoke, the words just coming out, just skipping my brain. I started testifying, fairly bluntly and powerfully, how it was sad they didn't believe that God loves his children enough to talk to us, how we do not trust in the teachings of men, but of God, and how the spirit shows the truth to us. That just made them really mad, and clearly didn't change their minds, and at the time I really wondered why the spirit would have me speak these things to people who were so hard hearted. I actually felt pretty bad, because we actually aren't every suppose to call them out like that, just leave. But after they left, the weak, recent member bore his testimony to the investigator, how the confusion of those people who just came is why we need a prophet of God to guide us, because we can't trust in our own interpretations, that is why we need the direction of the prophet and faith in God. The spirit had me say those things for the member, not for the angry bible bashers. Now I am not going to try in the slightest to bible bash, but it was a really amazing spiritual experience, and further confirmation that this is the one true church of Jesus Christ. it was just a really cool experience for me. The work is going good down here, and we are improving every day.
I love you guys, and know this church is true without a shadow of a doubt. Man, I love this mission.
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