Hello everybody back
hommmme!!!!!!!!!
I am having a great time out here
in Arkansas getting ready for Christmas!!! Me and Elder Lopez had an awesome
week this past week and taught a ton of lessons and got a ton of new potential
investigators! The Christmas time seems to soften everybody’s hearts and I love
this time of year.
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| Mikey and his new companion, Elder Lopez, while emailing from the church ;) |
I had a cool experience when I was
teaching Sherrie this week. She is an awesome lady and we really have been
pushing baptism for her and trying to get her to commit. She has a lot of
questions and this last visit while we were teaching her she started asking
some questions really none of which I knew the answer too. I bore probably my
most humble and most powerful testimony I ever had because I looked at Sherrie
and just said something like this, "Sherrie, I have no idea what the
answers to any of your questions are. We could find them and I could find them.
But they don't matter. I know Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ and that is
all I had to come to the knowledge of to know this church is true. Sherrie if
it wasn't true you wouldn't meet with us and be feeling the spirit you are
right now. Sherrie I love you and I want you to feel the Joy, peace, and
comfort I feel with this gospel. I know you know what I am saying is true
Sherrie." Pretty bold and I did not know really what I was even saying as
the words were coming out of my mouth. All I know is I love this lady so much
and I know how awesome the gospel is and I want her to have it so badly in her
life. We challenged her to pray and really ask God and went over how to have
real intent etc. We hope to set a baptismal date next visit.
The message that I have for
everybody at this Christmas season is similar to the one I shared with Sherrie.
There are only a handful of questions you need to have answered to know which
church is true. I know the church has been restored. Do not complicate things
in our lives by searching for temporal answers for spiritual questions. I am no
master of the scriptures, or preacher, or anything related to that. However,
the things I do know are the most important and everlasting truths on the
earth. They all can be found in their complete form in the restored church
today. Around this time I am especially grateful for the knowledge I have of my
Savior. I am so glad that our Heavenly Father loved us enough to send us our Savior.
I love my Savior so much and love that we get to celebrate his birth at this
time. There is no other knowledge that brings happiness and peace to my life as
much as my knowledge of our Savior does.
