From Elder Colton Weight:
This week has been an amazing week, I had my first baptism, and it was the greatest thing and the greatest feeling ever!! That baptism was one of the miracles that had occured from the mission fast. Linda is her name, and she had been living down the street from President Lewis for quite some time and a member of a protestant church for around 20 years, I believe. She had turned down countless missionaries. Well a man that she'd known for a long time was converted somewhat recently. She noticed the change that the gospel brought into his life and really wanted that change for herself. So she had him set up an appointment when she could meet with us. We taught her the restoration. She was a golden investigator from the get go and is extremely knowledgable about the Bible. Later during that week, she called us and said she wanted to be baptized! So we set up an appointment with her, taught her the plan of salvation and then set a date. We started teaching her at the beginning of November and she was baptized at the end! I know that it truly was a miracle, and it was because of our mission wide fast that that was able to happen, that her heart was softened so that we could bring her unto Christ so that she could have that change in her life! It's such an amazing experience, and it'll be something I'll never forget! Thank you for the opportunity to be able to have that fast. It has truly strengthened my testimony!
Love you very much, Love Elder Weight
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
Monday, November 30, 2009
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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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