Tuesday morning, we were with some recent converts and we got a phone call. It was the assistants. They said that President Christensen wanted to come and work with us for a while. FANTASTIC! We had an appointment with one new investigator that is just awesome! His name is Alejandro and he just talks and talks and talks about his views of religion and why everyone is wrong. The thing is... he´s right. He told us that he listens to EVERYBODY that talks about God, but he only invites us back for round 2. He likes the gospel. We made some good headway with President there and we have another appointment for tomorrow. We have been talking to him on his doorstep so maybe this time we can go into his house. Haha.
After Alejandro, we went to other appointments that we had, but no one was
there. In the end, President just told us that he liked what he was seeing and
dropped us off (we were riding in style in his new minivan.... oh yeah). The
rest of that day was fairly uneventful with the exception of my companion
FREAKING out all day about President´s possible alterior motives. I told him to
just calm down, but then he flipped out more. So I just let him go. Haha.
We have a baptism date with one Sandra for the 25th of August. She is
really going well. Every time she has a change in her schedule, she CALLS us and
puts a new appointment right there!!! You R.M.s know how great that is. Haha.
She is opening a business for dog hair cuts and we are helping her paint. It
will be a bigger project than she thought because we have to clean the walls and
take all the old and peeling paint off. It´s kinda gross because that´s also
where she sleeps and there is water damage all over her walls and turantulas
under her couch..... not the cleanest person ever. She´s great though. I´ll send
pics of the service project.
We have some other people going, but
nothing special. I just hate when people say, "All the religions have the same
god so we are all going to the same place. We are the same." No. We aren´t the
same. We have the restored gospel. We believe in an ACTIVE god and not one that
spoke in ancient times only. We believe in living what the Bible and the Book of
Mormon teach and just reading it to get a short spiritual high. I believe that
Christ lives and the talks to us today through modern day prophets and that
there is ONE road and it is straight and narrow, not curving and broad. There is
"One Lord, one faith and one baptism" (can´t for the life of me remember that
reference in the Bible right now).
Now, do want to hear about our differences to
see who is right? because we CAN´T both be right. I´m not saying that all other
religions are bad and send people to condemnation. Other religions help people
fortify their faith in Christ an learn some of His doctrine. The thing is, they
don´t have it all. They still have questions that they can´t answer. Why can´t
they answer them? Because they don´t have the power of revalation. Revalation is
the "Rock" that Christ built His church on. Not Peter. Peter recieved revalation
as to who Christ was and THAT is was Christ wanted to get across. We aren´t the
same. Let us help you. "Time is running out." -Elder Holland.
I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the only
true church upon the earth. I know that there is no other way by which we can
return to heaven except by follow the principles contained in the Book of Mormon
and the Bible. Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of the Lord and he instructs us as
the children of man through divine revalation. There is hope for all that come
unto the Father with a broken heart and a contrite spirit in the name of Jesus
Christ. We are different from other churches and religions because we have the
truth. I know it. I teach it. I testify of it in the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
Elder Heath
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