From Elder Neil Crook:
I wanted to share some miracles I've seen since I've been on my mission, at least one in particular. In Maricopa Stake we found out that the young women have been bringing their friend out to church for a while. We got the ok from her mom to teach her. Well, she was baptized just shortly afterwards. So we invited her mom as well to hear the lessons, and she was open to it after her daughter's baptism.
The miracle was while we were teaching her, we didn't know what to do. It just seemed like whenever we brought up baptism, she would shy away. During the time of teaching, they went from going to a place with no eletricity and water to a save-the-family-organization where she got a job. So we were hoping to see her recognize God's hand in blessing her so much.
One night, we dropped by without her daughter home. She just expressed to us that she wants to be baptized, but that her daughter wanted this to be her thing. Her daughter meant everything to her. Well, we decided to have a lesson about families in a member's home. We brought our family calendars with us. We shared this and asked the daughter what she could do to help her mom. Then she said, "Mom, I think you should get baptized." It was awesome, and I could tell God has been working in their lives and they are still active and have callings now. :D But yeah, thanks Sister Bassett for the inspiration about recording our miracles. Hope more will continue to come!!!
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
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When I was 14 or 15, I had a teacher that prided himself on being a thinker. We had some enlightening discussions in his classroom. He helped me ask some great questions that led to tremendous answers that still guide me today. We agreed on many things, but were at odds on a few. One of them was religion. I had a lot of respect for this man, but it amazed me that someone who claimed to be open minded was blind to just how closed minded he was when it came to God. He was always challenging my faith. He considered my beliefs to be a sign of my weakness. His claim was that unless it could be acknowledged by the 5 senses, there was no proof that God existed. I struggled as a young person to help him understand that he was limiting his understanding to what he had personally experienced, cutting himself off from other possibilities. The best that I could do was to try and help him understand how I knew; that things of the spirit could only be understood and perceived by the spirit. Years later, I still don't have a better answer to this one fundamental question, but I face the same dilemma. This blog is dedicated to preserving stories and experiences of missionaries in the Arizona Mesa Mission both during and after their formal missions. Some stories are fun and light hearted, but others are of a spiritual nature. The blog forum is so convenient, yet the format is limiting. There is more to these words than letters on a page. To truly understand the messages requires not only an open mind, but a soft heart.
After all, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?- Robert Browning"
After all, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?- Robert Browning"
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