Well this last week has been incredible! It truly has been one for the books. We were able to have lots of success in our area and in the zone. And my comp and I have been able to find some great people for the month of April.
On Friday night we had a family home evening with the whole zone and our investigators and it was a big success. We asked a lady that we were teaching (one of the people that got baptized on Saturday) to share her testimony about the BOM and let’s just say wow. It was the best testimony that I have heard any investigator share. It brought a lot of people to tears because the spirit was so strong. That just shows how strong her testimony was before she even got baptized! It was absolutely amazing! There is a picture included of the FHE while we were playing a game.
Then our baptism on Saturday. My companion and I were so blessed to be able to be there and to have had the opportunity to get to know these people. We were able to have 6 baptisms. 4 from the Tuisima family and then 2 from the Avalos family. Oh, and an 8-year-old girl from the ward that had her baptism with ours. She was the last to be baptized and I was in the baptismal font last, so I baptized her. Let’s just say her name was really hard for me to memorize..... So, I had the Bishop write it on a paper and then just read it! And it was great to see the father of the family baptize his 2 kids. After 15 years or so of being inactive they came back to church and he did the things necessary to be able to baptize and confirm his kids. So now they are a big happy family active in the church! And now we're working with them to go to the temple to do baptisms for their ancestors.
Now we are teaching the brother of the mom of the Avalos family. And at first, he didn't even believe in God. But as he has been able to do the things that we have invited him to do he has felt the spirit and knows that we have a living prophet and now wants to be baptized! He will be baptized this weekend! It is so amazing how the hand of the Lord can change people’s lives if they permit it. I know without doubt in my heart that if people just do one thing they can get over whatever doubt or difficulty that they have with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all explained in a small passage of scripture that changes lives if it is put into practice.
3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
Moroni 10:3-5
I invite all of you that may have a doubt about the BOM or the Church of Jesus Christ to follow the example of these scriptures and I know that the answers can be found in this way. Because every single time if an investigator says to us that he doesn't believe that these things are true we ask if they have really earnestly asked and always they say no. The only way that we can know is by asking our Father in Heaven.
Well this is all that I have for this week. I hope that you all have an amazing week! I love you all!
Elder Farnsworth
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