Thursday, January 12, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Awe, Awesome, and Did that just happen?
Steven will be speaking on the 29th of January at 9:00 a.m. in our NEW ward chapel (800 North and about 520 East). Please come and let your married kids and children that are in the area, know as well.
So this last week we had some very good experiences. One came when we shared the Restoration with an investigator named Smart. He was completely blown away by everything we shared and he was okay until we got to the First Vision........ Then he was in shock and we asked if he had any questions, and he said," No, just to stand in awe." He asked if such things can still happen and we testified that they do and that they did. Very cool. He even bore his testimony on Sunday during Sacrament Meeting about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the church. People were very surprised and asked us, has he been baptized yet? NOPE! BUT SOON!
Then we had been feeling like we should go to this one part of our area and we finally planned that we would go and we didn't even have anyone in that area. BUt we called the members and asked them to work with us and so we show up and ask this brother about who he knows and he says he knows this one less active family so we go and we find out that they are the parents of a returned missionary that I know very well. I was shocked and the father is not a member. So we share and invite him to be baptized and he said that he had already been planning on that this year. He said that because we came he would have to speed up his plans to this month. The family has been members for years but he has never been to church before. But he committed to be baptized and to come to church. And guess what? For the first time ever, he came to church on Sunday. His son was very surprised and very happy! Just crazy that we actually found him by "accident" crazy that things happen that way!
Then we were walking by this house and saw a young man reading a pamphlet from the church so we stop and talk to him and find out his uncle was a member but had passed away and had left some things with him. So we made some time and we went there later that day. We walk in and find that he has almost everything! The LDS Bible, the triple combination, FHE manual, Eternal Marriage manual, the pamphlets, and a myriad of random church materials(i.e. Teaching, No greater Call). Very funny and it turns to he loves reading them but doesn't know the true church. Hopefully he will do what is necessary to find and accept the truth.
Well I can't recount all the everything that occurred! Sharp!
ELDER GAY
GO ON A MISSION!!!!!
So this last week we had some very good experiences. One came when we shared the Restoration with an investigator named Smart. He was completely blown away by everything we shared and he was okay until we got to the First Vision........ Then he was in shock and we asked if he had any questions, and he said," No, just to stand in awe." He asked if such things can still happen and we testified that they do and that they did. Very cool. He even bore his testimony on Sunday during Sacrament Meeting about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the church. People were very surprised and asked us, has he been baptized yet? NOPE! BUT SOON!
Then we had been feeling like we should go to this one part of our area and we finally planned that we would go and we didn't even have anyone in that area. BUt we called the members and asked them to work with us and so we show up and ask this brother about who he knows and he says he knows this one less active family so we go and we find out that they are the parents of a returned missionary that I know very well. I was shocked and the father is not a member. So we share and invite him to be baptized and he said that he had already been planning on that this year. He said that because we came he would have to speed up his plans to this month. The family has been members for years but he has never been to church before. But he committed to be baptized and to come to church. And guess what? For the first time ever, he came to church on Sunday. His son was very surprised and very happy! Just crazy that we actually found him by "accident" crazy that things happen that way!
Then we were walking by this house and saw a young man reading a pamphlet from the church so we stop and talk to him and find out his uncle was a member but had passed away and had left some things with him. So we made some time and we went there later that day. We walk in and find that he has almost everything! The LDS Bible, the triple combination, FHE manual, Eternal Marriage manual, the pamphlets, and a myriad of random church materials(i.e. Teaching, No greater Call). Very funny and it turns to he loves reading them but doesn't know the true church. Hopefully he will do what is necessary to find and accept the truth.
Well I can't recount all the everything that occurred! Sharp!
ELDER GAY
GO ON A MISSION!!!!!
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