Sister Bassett,
Wow, that's a really catchy subject name for this email; sounds like a movie or something and I wasn't even trying. Anyways, this is Elder Gibson, Sister Bassett. I am writing in response to your request for recent miracles that have occurred. We have seen some amazing miracles with a family we have started teaching about three weeks ago. They are Maria and Susana, both sisters with 5 kids in total. Just to give you some background first, both are in their 30's or so, and Maria has a 21-year-old son. Susana is not married, but has two sons and two daughters with a boyfriend currently working in New Mexico. Anyways, Susana has been Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, "Christian," pretty much everything, but she has been less than impressed with them all. She said that she had been praying to know what the truth really was, and shortly afterwards we TTI'd (talked to her on the street) and taught Maria outside their house, and began teaching her on our second visit. She told us last week that the 1st time she came to Church she knew that it was true, and wants to get baptized.
It has been an amazing experience to teach these women. They are both shy. Maria is very cautious, but they are amazing. Susana has an incredible knowledge of true doctrine, even though some of it has never been taught to her. While we were teaching them the Plan of Salvation, we asked them what they thought happened to us after death, and she sheepishly explained what she thought was only her idea, but it was EXACTLY correct. She described Spirit Paradise perfectly, and she understood everything very well. We are still teaching them, and they will be baptized soon.
Thank you for the opportunity to share these experiences, Sister Bassett, I really appreciate it. Merry Christmas!
-Elder Gibson
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
Saturday, November 28, 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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