The Miracle of the Atonment

Hello all,

 

Well right now I can't really think of what to say. It has been a good week though. We have gotten through some rough times the last few weeks, but the Lord, as He always does, has blessed us with a miracle. We got Levi as a referral about a month and a half ago. After several things falling through, we kept on going by to see if he was there and set something up. He never was, but we left a Book of Mormon with someone else living in the house and kept on going back. So on Wednesday night we got a call out of the blue from him. He said that he had a "spiritual awakening" and that he felt he should call us. He felt that because we kept on going back to see him, we truly did care about him. So we visited him that very night. He told us that, as we figured out already, he was kind of dodging us. He thought that we would judge him and he was kind of scared to change. He told us that he was a former drug addict and that he was worried if he would be able to be free of his sins, because they were many and great. He said that he died of an over dose, but came back to life. It was a miracle and now he wants to thank God for it. We testified of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and told him that he could be free of sin as he repented. We talked about baptism and invited him to be baptized. He is preparing for baptism in March. Levi has a lot to overcome, but he says he has been sober and off drugs for a few months now and is ready to turn his life over to God. He knows that there are certain things that he has to do, including marring his fiance and completely quitting smoking, but he is committed to do it.

Yesterday I gave a talk in Church. I was asked in Ward Council to speak, 2 hours before sacrament meeting. The bishopric for some reason didn't ask anyone to speak so they asked all the speakers that morning. But the meeting actually turned out pretty well. I spoke about charity and home teaching and I shared the story about Kaspar Fetzer helping bring back the "inaccessible" people to Church because that is something that the ward has been struggling with lately. 

 

Well, this is gonna be short, but the Chruch is true!

~Elder Fetzer