Sister Bassett
All I can really say is that we are still getting more and more miracles. It's so amazing. And it's always at the opportune moment. This weekend we had all our baptism dates drop, just due to problems that will take a while to overcome. It's just really hard. But just yesterday we had a tender mercy of the Lord. We had a lesson with a man named Caesar. It was a good lesson, and at the end he asked us a question, "How long does it take before I can get baptized?" It was a shocker. I just wanted to smile and shout with joy. It's like music to all missionaries ears, but I kept my composure, and we explanied the process. Then we extended an invitation to be baptized on the 26th of Dec. And he willingly accepted. He has come to church for weeks before, and is already living all the commandments, so it goes to show that there really are people out there who have been and are being prepared to recieve the restored gospel, we just have to do our part and find them. And that is just one of the miricles that we recived yesterday,
Elder Gleaves and Elder Phillips
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
Tuesday, December 15, 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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