Many Highs and Lows

Hello all,

 

This week we experienced a lot of highs and many lows. Nathaniel was baptized Wednesday, Jun 6, now making up an all-member family of two. He was nervous, but now is all good. He has come a long way since the elders began teaching him months ago, and now he realizes that he has a bit more to go as well, to the House of the Lord. But he can do it. He has had to overcome a lot. His example has showed me that through the power of God, addictions can be taken away and He can give you the strength to overcome them.

 

This week we met a member-referral named Amy. She is 19 years old and is moving to California with LDS friends and wants to be baptized there, but wants us to prepare her for baptism. While looking for a church to attend down there, her friends invited her to attend with them and she loved it! We went into the lesson not knowing much about her and as usual, started with our lesson on the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As we began to discuss Joseph Smith she stopped us and told us that earlier that day she was reading the triple combination scriptures that she was given and read the Joseph Smith History. Then she told us that she had read parts of the Book of Mormon and got to Moroni's challenge to pray about it. So she knelt down that very morning and asked God if Joseph Smith was a prophet and if the Book of Mormon was true and got her spiritual confirmation right then. She will be baptized soon!

 

But with such great things like baptism and a solid new investigator, the adversary is fighting back. Our lessons with investigators this last weekend after the baptism were basically all cancelled. They were "too busy." But they will continue to meet with us.

 

So things are okay. The Church is true and God's work will roll forth because the Church is true!

 

~Elder Fetzer