We had about 2 hours to go finding in between the Saturday Afternoon session and Priesthood and this one particular man was telling us "I don't believe God speaks to just ONE man.. He speaks to all".. Then after we helped him understand the bold statement of God continuing to speak, if very much backing up what he just said.. that he can indeed receive revelation.. but the role of a prophets revelation is for the world.. God wouldn't speak to him to warn the world of floods... no he does that through his prophets, like Noah of old.. Then it clicked and he was dumbfounded... Then said... "Well... I don't need a prophet.. I'm close ENOUGH to God".. so I said- "if you think you are close enough.. chances will be that there are things that will bring you closer to God and make you happier.. one of them being the restored gospel.. So if you wanna say you are close enough.. good on ya.. but you are living wayyy lower than your potential happiness that God intends you to have."... I then read this morning.. a quote by one the prophets.. He was saying in essence.. I know when I am speaking by the spirit.. when I finish talking and learn something from what I said.. When I finished talking to that man.. I think I learned more than he did.. The spirit testified to me as we were walking off his doorstep.. That God loves us enough to give us continuing guidance.. After all He gave us His Only Begotten Son to show us the way.. And then every one says it's over after that?.. No more prophets?.. To me that seems like a contradiction of God's love.. Here's the Atonement.. and now go live with the bible.. it's all you need...And with all of His infinite love and wisdom.. I don't think He would limit Himself to 1590 pages.. of the Old and New Testament.. and not even to 531 pages of the Book of Mormon etc... no it's beyond that.. They still speak!. In a world ever more dangerous.. and with rapidly declining morals.... If we think we can get through it on our own... good luck.. we saw how that turned out.. It's called the Great Apostasy haha.. we NEED God's words and direction still... And it's because someone actually understood that... is the reason why we achieved our goal that afternoon... We were looking to find 1 new investigator in those 2 hours.. and we accomplished it through sharing the Restoration with him....and this man was like "Yeahhh!! That makes so much sense!".. It does make sense... Because it's true... =D
There's
this Less Active in our branch... and she used to be really strong.. strong family in the gospel... but
she hasn't been active for ages... In my 3 transfers here so far I've
never seen her at church...And been to their house once... But we had
dinner with them and had a really good lesson in preparation to...
(drumroll)... INVITE THEM TO GENERAL CONFERENCE.. yayyyy!... And as we
committed them.. the wife said.. "I'll consider it..".. And so we left
her be.. we didn't want to be too pushy and be like "COME TO CHURCH!!"..
so we arrived at church... and we were printing out the conference
talks so we could read along with the addresses.. and BOOM!... She
walked in with her family!!.. And first thing she did.. was give us a
dirty look and said.. What'd you bribe him with?... Hahaha. So
supposedly.. Her son kept pestering her to come to General Conference
and she thought we promised him lollies or something hahaha. We assured
her we didn't do anything and she lightened up.. And turned out she
really loved the session!.. But I now learned my lesson... If you get
the child to do something... he will drag along 2 with them.. (their
parents).. It twas legit indeed...
Another experience.. We went
to this Less Active families home (There's too many Less Active
people).. And they're from New Zealand.. WOO!.. And with my Kiwiness we
get along real well with them.. I just talk in my Maori accent and say
"I'm beached as bro... Want some plankton?"... and they love me.. But we
went over for an FHE and the father proceeded to ask that we gave all of them blessings...
(Just a side note.. That's something I'm so grateful for in the
misison... it prepares you for the most unexpected situations and
teaches you the importance of worthiness.) So we then
gave them blessings and shared a FHE lesson with them. It was a really great experience to be able to
help that family.. to be instruments in God's hands to simply make them
happier.. And to top it off.. They've been coming to church 3 weeks in a
row! WOO!..
I felt like CIA this week though.. It was legit. We were doing some
unknowns on the branch list and we were trying to track down this certain
member.. And so we knocked on what we had his address to be on the
sheet of paper.. And the guy who answered immediately was like "NOPE!
NOPE! LEAVE! And was about to slam the door.. and I was like "Wait wait!
Do you happen to know A?!".. And he turned back and then talked to
us to see if he knew him.. Then I introduced ourselves.. that we were
from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he flipped a
switch like in a second.. And his whole countenance changed and he
went.. "Awesome!! :) Sorry I thought you were Jehovah's Witnesses... I
just have some personal problems with them".. And then he invited us
back to share a message with him hahaha. Every one is interested.. they
just don't know it yet.. and you have to find a way to get an in with
them.. So that guy then directed us to where he thinks A moved..
and we knocked on that address and it was his parents.. And they then
said he moved to Newcastle.. in which we got the address and gave it to
the Newcastle elders hahah. And as we were walking out of the complex.. I
was backing up my companion (reversing him driving).. And this lady approached
me! And she poured out all these problems she had.. like her 2 husbands
died of cancer etc. And wanted us to teach her! #miracles. And that was
all in the space of 30 minutes haha. It was so legit!
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