TESTIMONY

 

This week was awesome! We have been working like crazy, and seeing some long awaited changes in this work. We got our future deacon to chruch on Sunday... which means we finally are going to baptize this weekend! We also set two other dates for the next weekend. Here we go. They dynasty begins!

So you may be wondering if I got a change... I did NOT! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Florida. Elder Young is still my companion. I will be here for about six and a half months now because of this transfer being long. I am excited to spend Christmas here, and to prepare the area so that I leave it with lots of baptisms and others on the way for the new guy. It truly is a merry Christmas!

So Cristian is all set and ready to go. He is so cool. In his prayer, we asked him to ask if the Book of Mormon is true. The next day, he said he knew it was true, and in his prayer to end the lesson he said, "thank you for telling me that the Book of Mormon is true." How cool! I love the faith of youth. They are the best.

The other two are named Luis and Alexander. 14 and 15. They are brothers, and live super far away. We did anther movie night in a members home, and this time 8 investigators came! Many were invites of the family. But the best was that Luis came. The next day, he and his brother were in church. We gave them a stack of panflets to read durring the week, and then we are going to teach them Sat and Sun. Haha.

Okay, so the story of the week happened yesterday. Solomon, the son of the branch pres, is a single adult and friend of Luis and Alexander. We taught them the restoration after church yesterday and it went really well. But the best part was Solomon. I asked him to explain how he got a testimony, and then bear it. He explained that when he was younger, as a teen, he doubted, and wanted to know the truth about the church and all that stuff. He prayed and said the first thing that he felt was feeling of peace, that he was in the right path in his life. Then he said he got the desire to read the scriptures, and went on to explain certain scriptures that effected him greatly. Then he just bore his testimony. "I know that the chruch is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. I know that this is Christs chruch and that this is where he wants me to be."

This may sound unremarkable, and I do not know what the two boys felt, but when this young man said that, I just got cold chills all over. Then I just felt a great warmth, and I knew that he knew that this truly is Christs church. His testimony is real. He knows it, and I could feel. I have never experienced anything like that with someone elses testimony before. Now I just want him, more than anything, to on a mission. He is so meek, and humble. Quite, but not shy or incapable. I just want him to share that testimony with everyone in the world.

I love this work. I love this area. I love the Lord. I hope that when I bear my testimony, that others can feel what I felt. I, by no worthiness on my part, know, by power of the Spirit, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I know that He called Joseph Smith to be a prophet, and that this church today, is true. It is the same chruch established by Christ in His mortal ministry. May you all seek to know that same this Christmas season, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

So there is the blog. I do not like contractions because I cannot use the apostaphy function on this keyboard. haha.

 

Love,

Elder Kenter Thalman