Dear Sister Bassett
We found this new investigator named Chris. A very good kid who is 18 years old. His girlfriend introduced him to the church. During the first lesson, we invited him to be baptized when he received an answer that the gospel was true. He said then that he was more compatible with us than with his girlfriend's hearing ward (these are ASL missionaries and cover the deaf branch). He prayed about The Book of Mormon, and yesterday, he really wanted to meet with us. So last night we had a lesson with him. We had a concern that he was only doing this for his girlfriend, and during the lesson his mom had the same concern and wanted him to study about the church for a year then go ahead and get baptized. But he also told us that he isn't doing it for her but is truly interested. Then when his paster from his old church told him that he can't join the Mormon church because, "They belive that Jesus and Satan are the same person," he was a little offended. We explained that they (Jesus and Satan) were in fact 2 seperate people and even explained about the war in heaven to help him understand. We don't usually teach that but that's what the Spirit said to do. It was what he needed to understand, and it resolved his concern. We set up a baptismal date for the 9th.
We also set up another date for the 3rd! We are going to do it right after church so more people will be there and we will let everyone know.
Thank you for all your hard work
Love Elder Thomas
"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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