Dear Sis Bassett,
Just wanted to share this VC miracle with you.
There was a lady who came in today who wanted to hear the Christus narration. I thought for sure that she was a member, but as I talked to her, I realized that she wasn't, so I sat down, and started talking to her more. She said that this morning, when she woke up, the first thing that came to her mind even before she opened her eyes was, "Go to the temple." She said that she didn't know why, but that she had come. She said, "They have a zebra in one of the nativities from South Africa, maybe that's why I needed to come in--to see that." In my mind, I replied, "Oh sista, it's a lot more than the zebra!" She said that her friend gave her a Book of Mormon, and she had been to church with him, but that she was still confused about some things. So I gave her the first lesson and when I taught about authority, her eyes really lit up, and she understood. I answered some of her questions, and we looked up scriptures in the Book of Mormon (she had hers with her), and we had a great chat. I was a little sad becuase she declined missionaries even after I promised blessings, and she felt the Spirit, but she said that she has a meeting with the bishop on Sunday, and that she would pray about having the missionaries over before then.
It was so neat to be an instrument in the Lord's hands as she had followed the prompting to come into the VC. She's going to get baptized!
Thank you so much for all that you do, Sis Bassett! You are awesome!
Love,
Sis Fonbuena
"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, December 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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