hola
its so great to hear all is well. i'm glad you got the pictures. yes i do have an adapter for my sd card so maybe i'll try emailing some pictures. Its so exciting to hear i have a niece. can't wait to see some pictures. Emily's in Peru and she flew over Florida last week. its exciting so much is going on. its so amazing. God is so good to us.
This past week we taught a man that we have taught multiple times. He loves the Bible and knows it to be the word of God but has a hard time accepting the Book of Mormon. He has prayed concerning the book but has only received the answer to gain more wisdom and so he has been studying everything he can get his hands on and as a result he has found lots of Anti-Mormon material and has had many questions he wanted us to answer. we had gone over a few times and tried to answer his questions but frankly we didn't know the answers to most of them. Thursday evening we went over to his home and talked to him and his wife. we went with the intent to let him know that we don't have all the answers and to watch Elder Hollands talk "Safety for the Soul". after watching and listening to elder Hollands talk and testimony of the Book of Mormon. we asked if we could kneel down with them and pray to know if the Book of Mormon was true. he accepted the invitation and we knelt in his home. he prayed and we all stayed on our knees waiting and praying in our hearts for an answer. after what seemed like a long time R. said that all he kept on thinking was that Christ is his savior and that he didn't see any reason to continue investigating the Church but that he would call us again if he wanted to again. as a last resort we bore testimony and asked him to come to church Sunday and he accepted to give it a try and at least come and see one of our services. Sunday came around and R. showed up to church and enjoyed sacrament meeting but was very disappointed that they didn't really preach from the Bible. Elder Mcclatchy told him that we would study the Bible in Gospel Principles. and we went to the class where we did read from some scriptures from the bible and discussed them and it was great he really did enjoy it! and after church that day he said we could come back and discuss the Gospel more with him.
It was a tender mercy of the Lord. we didn't know how to help him any more and hoped and prayed he would come to church and he did! and the Lord Blessed him with a spiritual experience. God is good and He will bless us and His Grace is sufficient after all we can do. Christ lives and loves every one of us! and it is a Blessing to be in His service.
Love
Elder Olsen
P.S. Mom is Grace the word you chose to focus on this year?
No comments:
Post a Comment