The answer is general conference, general conference was awesome, it was
such a blessing to listen to a prophet and to hear his counsel and to listen to
the apostles and the leaders of the church, I know that I learned a lot and I
hope that you learned a lot too.
This week, I had an experience that strengthened my testimony in the
importance of scripture mastery. I am now glad that I put to memory these
scriptures, because they came to my mind in an instant and I was able to share
them with an investigator to answer his questions. the investigar was someone
that we contacted a week ago, and we just had the appointment with him Friday.
he read the pamphlet on the restoration and had a lot of doubts about how it
was possible that Joseph Smith saw god and Jesus Christ and that they were in
the form of men, because he thought that they were infinitely in physical form
or something like that, so I sat there listening to him, and what came to my
mind was a scripture mastery scripture, Genesis 1:26-27, which basically says
that God created man in his image. This helped him a little bit, but he still
had some doubts, he asked how it was possible for man to see god, because he
said "Noah, Abraham, and all the other prophets of the old testament never saw
god, so why Joseph smith" Then, another scripture mastery came to my mind
Exodus 33:11 when it says that God spoke with Moses, face to face, I explained
that what happened to Moses happened to Joseph smith as well, and told himi that
it was the same thing as a conversation, like the lesson we were having with him
in that moment. He said that we answered his question and that he didn`t have
doubts about that anymore, but......that`snot the end of the story, we kept on
teaching him, and we got to the part of the book of mormon, and who would have
guessed it, but we showed him another scripture mastery scripture, Moroni
10:3-5, and he loved it so much! He told us that that was something that he had
never thougth of before, that he could know the truth for himself, and not just
because a missionary tells him, or a preacher, or anyone else, he is so excited
to learn more, we will see him this
friday, unfortunately, he was unable to come to general conference, but
he told us he would watch it online. And yeah, that is the story, I know that
scripture mastery scriptures are inspired, study them, they will help you, I`m
glad I put those scriptures to my memory, because I needed them, and the Holy
Ghost helped me to remember the location of these passages of Scripture when I
needed them, it was pretty cool.
The conference was the best thing ever, we had 4 investigators there with
us, and they loved it, I`m really hoping that we will be able to put a
baptisimal date4 with them and help them to be baptized, I`ll let you know how
it goes. Things are looking good here in Reforma, time is flying by, this week,
I completed 9 months in the mission! I can`t believe it, but I am working on
enjoying every second of the mission, even the trials and tribulations, because
I have had those, but I have learned so much and my testimony has been
strengthened, I love being a missionary, I know the church is true, i know that
President Thomas S Monson is a prophet of God and that he leads and guides the
church today, and most
importantly, I know that Jesus Christ lives, and that he is my savior, I felt a
witness of this testimony in the conference, and I hope that you guys felt that
as well, reread and study the conference talks, do all you can to apply these
teachings, this is my testimony that I leave with you in the name of Jesus
Christ, Amen
Hasta Luego, thanks for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers, it really
means a lot to me, I`m thankful for each and every one of you in my life, and
the example that you show me. Gracias, I hope to hear from you soon. Happy
week this week :)
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