10/6/14
Okay
first and foremost, General Conference was the bomb. I loved all of it! I
feel so spiritually full!
I have so many
favorite talks, but the one on my mind right now is the talk given by Elder
Bednar on Sunday afternoon. He spoke directly to nonmembers and
invited them to "Come and See." Come and see why members have such a
desire to share the gospel. Come and see all the blessings that it can
bring. It was so good. And recognizing all the blessing and
happiness that this gospel, this church, has brought to my life and wanting to
share those blessings with others is exactly the reason why I decided to serve
a mission. And that's exactly why we try to invite everyone we talk to to
"Come and See."
Anyways, this week was
great.
We picked up some
investigators and had a lot of cool experiences this week. One experience
we had on Friday night was pretty interesting. We were going to
teach someone who has already been taught by the missionaries before, but they
dropped them for a little while. So we decided we might try to pick them
back up. We knew they had been taught the Restoration before and were planning
on talking about prophets and General Conference, not really the Restoration so
much. But right before we went into their house we both got the feeling
that we might end up teaching the Restoration, so we grabbed a pamphlet for
it. We went in and talked to the mom, Teresa, for a while. She
wasn't feeling very well, so we talked to her about the priesthood and
priesthood blessings. The conversation didn't even start heading towards
talking about the Restoration. Halfway through the lesson her neighbor
came to the door. He was going to come back later but saw that we were
missionaries and said "I want to see what's going on here." He sat in
the kitchen and talked to her husband for the rest of our chat with the Teresa,
but when we invited them to pray with us he jumped up with a bunch of
accusatory comments about how our belief in Jesus Christ isn't the same.
We both testified of how we know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and the
testimony we have of him. That quieted him on that subject, but he had a
bunch of other problems with the church (basically just looking for a way to
prove us wrong) and we answered each one of them either with testimony or
scripture. And we ended up teaching the Restoration and giving him the
pamphlet we had brought. We finished the conversation with him still
being a little confrontational, but it was cool that we had ended up teaching
the Restoration when our original lesson had not got that way. And it was
really powerful to me, because I was able to feel the Spirit so strongly and
there was not one question or comment he had that we didn't have an answer
for. While it's never fun to have someone attack your belief, this
experience was definitely a testament to me that this church IS true. We
were guided and directed by the spirit and teaching the principles he asked
about just confirmed to me the truth of them.
That was just one of
many faith-building experiences this week.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Horne
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