Sunday, January 13, 2013

A lot of good things happening

This week was swell... A lot of good things happening... This past Wednesday I went on Trade-Offs with this fresh as missionary.. He's only been out 3 weeks, but it was super fun! Our theme for our trade-off was setting inspired goals... And so we set the goal of pulling 2 people off of the street to show them the church (equivalent to tracting and having 2 people let you in to teach)... So we were busy the whole morning and we had little finding time... but it was getting near the end of the day.. And we had 1 hour left to pull 2 people off.... So we said a prayer and the moment we walked outside the Teaching Center we saw this Japanese guy looking a bit lost so we went and talked to him.. and turns out he had heard about our Church that we teach Free English here and wanted to learn more about it... AND... he was waiting outside for his friend to come with him!!!.... So we talked to him and his friend came and we showed them around church and taught them and accomplished our goal!!!! That testified to me that God has a will.... and if we align our will with His having faith to accomplish it... it shall be done... So it was a really cool experience especially for him as well... a brand new missionary... and now he learned the importance of setting goals in faith! 
Now for story time... So this Saturday J... was baptized!!! But it was so funny for real... because he was so nervous I was just using that to my advantage hahaha, cause obviously if you're sympathetic in this situation it's going to make it worse... so I would just make random comments... Like we were entering the chapel and there was a black cat... I was like "Ohhh J... you know what that means?..." What?... "That's bad luck, maybe we should go home!"... And he just started laughing out of nervousness hahah. And I told him "Ohh J... did you know... last year someone died in this baptismal font.." Hahaha. But he got over his nerves and was fine... But it was really cool... our Elders Quorum President gave a talk saying 13 years ago he was baptized and the missionaries were 40 minutes late so the water was freezing cold.. and he related it to Wilford Woodruff when he was baptized... They broke open a frozen river and he was baptized in there and he hugged the other person and said "I don't feel the cold brother... I don't feel the cold"... And he said when he was baptized he felt immediately warm when he went into the water.... and the spirit of promise confirmed to him that the ordinance was true.... And the same happened to J!!.... Before we entered the water I read him Alma 7:15, And that was so cool because that's one of the scriptures that helped him get over his fear... and then we actually did what it said at the end!.... and we entered the water and it was COLD AS!!!..... But once he was baptized and we went into the changing room he just started laughing and hugged me and was like "I feel so hot!!!! I'm so happy!!!!" And he got down and started doing push ups and was just laughing and was seriously on a happy high hahaha, he even told me he wished he never postponed his baptism because this feeling was so incredible!.... It was such a great experience though to witness!!!.... He's a such a good guy! 

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