Dear Sister Bassett,
Another miracle that's happening.
This Sunday we are having a baptism for an investigator named Conrad. We were going to have him baptized a few months ago, but his mom had a bunch of concerns that we needed to cover. Most of her concern came from not knowing what a lot of stuff meant and needed a lot of clarification. She herself is a convert of about a year, but still had some concerns. She received a lot of help with the book : True to the Faith. A simple but great book that helped her understand a lot of the church doctrine. Yesterday, Elder Porter did the baptismal interview, and now we are all set.
Thank you for your hard work,
Love Elder Thomas
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**January 19th
an update on Conrad
Conrad is doing good. He is really motivated to serve a mission. He had some concerns before his baptism about that, but during his receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, he was given counsel in regards to his mission. I never have seen a bigger grin on his face.
"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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