29 July 2019
Wow wow wow eventful week! We had a super cool lesson with our friend Teddy and the Spirit was so strong. We invited him to be baptized and he said yes! He almost got baptized this past Saturday but he just needs to know a little more about the story of Joseph Smith and some more support from his family. It was so cool because when we asked him if he believes that the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored through Joseph Smith, he told us that he can't confidently say that right now, but he knows that the answer will be yes. It is amazing to see how the Spirit can testify so strongly to us of truth even before we have a complete knowledge of it!
Wow wow wow eventful week! We had a super cool lesson with our friend Teddy and the Spirit was so strong. We invited him to be baptized and he said yes! He almost got baptized this past Saturday but he just needs to know a little more about the story of Joseph Smith and some more support from his family. It was so cool because when we asked him if he believes that the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored through Joseph Smith, he told us that he can't confidently say that right now, but he knows that the answer will be yes. It is amazing to see how the Spirit can testify so strongly to us of truth even before we have a complete knowledge of it!
Saturday was a crazy day. In the morning I went to the Fresno Temple with Hermana Segura and two of her boys. It was all over the place haha. The Bishop forgot to sign Hermana Segura's recommend so we had to try calling him from the Temple and he didn't answer so I was waiting in the waiting room with her then we finally got hold of Bishop so everything turned out fine. But because everything took so long I was almost late for our baptism in the afternoon haha. It was a close call but we made it friends.
We are teaching a little 8 year old girl who is going to get baptized this Saturday. Sometimes she has a hard time processing and remembering information because, well, she's 8 haha. But we taught her the 10 Commandments using some hand signs so that she could remember easier and she did so good!!!! My favorite is for "thou shalt not commit adultery". In order to simplify it, we just taught her that we have one husband and one husband on only. And "we don't even look at other boys because we just have one husband" so now every time we practice them with her and we do the sign for number 7 she says "marriage" and we say "what about it?" so she responds, "don't look at any other boys". It's precious!! Gotta teach 'em young ;)
Our friend Shakira came to church yesterday!!!!! It was amazing because she gets really nervous around people but she did so good!! She also wants to be baptized this Saturday. She is so sweet and so so prepared. I have so much love for her.
One thing that has been coming up in my studies a lot lately is how Christ's Atonement works in our lives and how we are saved by Christ. The scriptures teach us that Christ "should not come to redeem [us] in [our] sins, but to redeem [us] from [our] sins". He himself said, "Behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin". I think that is so significant because it helps us to realize our personal responsibility to repent and to leave behind our sins. So cool!!! Because of Jesus Christ we can literally change our nature to become more like Him. Sometimes it requires giving up things that we love but that lead us away from God. But with faith and trust in Him, we will come to be someone far better and happier and have "no more desire to do evil".
Love yall,
Hermana Brown
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