Sister Bassett,
So Sunday came around (yeah it starts out like the last story), and we still hadn't found any new investigators. We had some spare time in the evening. We decided to try to contact one of our referrals. We met Maria at the door, and she told us that her daughter was interested in learning about the church because she had many friends that were LDS. We met the father of the family also and their 4 kids. We invited all of them to sit in and participate as we taught the message of the Restoration. We taught simply and with many questions so they all would understand and enjoy the teaching. We also watched the Restoration DVD, and they understood everything. Tonight we have a follow up lesson where we will read the Book of Mormon with the family. We will certainly soft commit the whole famliy to baptism and with any luck we'll have 4 more with a date before the end of the week. The Lord is very merciful and if we are faithful, he will make up for our inadequacies by providing miracles.
Elder Jeffrey Gomez
"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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