January 28, 2013
Hey
Friends and Family,
Wow
looking over my journal this week I realize that I have way too many
stories to share that I had already forgot about. Usually I just
write in the journal every day and then forget it on p-day which
leaves me to trying my best to remember what went on during the week.
I
had an interesting time this week in District meeting this week, but
as always when you have 10-12 missionaries in your district instead
of the normal 6, it can be hard to keep things on time and make sure
everyone is learning and participating. It went really well, but the
only problem is that we went 10 mins over and we only had time to do
3 out of the four stations... oh well. Hopefully next transfer they
spit up the district.
On
Wednesday we went knocking and we ran into this lady who invited us
back later for an appointment. Little did we know that it was an
apostolic "Bible Study" and we were there seated in the
middle of them. Luckily the class was on repentance, which to my
surprise everything they taught was true doctrine, they used very
good examples from the Bible and the class was pretty interesting.
Towards the end I boldly shared a scripture in Alma 34. At first they
were kind of hesitant to have me share out of the Book of Mormon, but
in that moment I felt the spirit so strongly. It just reinforced my
testimony about how other churches can teach almost all the correct
doctrine, and that they do teach the people to be better, but without
the Book of Mormon or the Authority, it’s false.
This
Sunday after church we had a young man walk straight up to the church
doors and asked us if he could see inside the church. I drew a blank
for a minute trying to analyze what he said but after I recovered we
gave him the grand tour. As we sat in the sacrament room, He said
that he felt this different feeling, a warm vibration. We testified
to him that it was the spirit. We have a return appointment, and he
wants to come to church. It was a really cool experience.
My
favorite experience however this week was with a new investigator who
even though she was extremely depressed and Satan tried everything
possible to get her to not go to church, she got up and went to
church. She told us in the lesson we had with her that as soon as she
stepped in the chapel that she felt this calmness that she had never
felt before. She said she had been to many churches and never had
felt that feeling. We invited her to ask God for the 17th of Feb. for
her baptism, right there in the lesson and as she prayed she
practically pleaded with God that he would allow her to be baptized.
It was a really awesome experience.
There
is a lot more to right. But I don’t have time…
Love
you,
Elder
Stewart
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