Well, I definitely
didn't know what I signed up for... This is hard!
This week kinda sucked. We had
8 people that were sooooo close to being baptized, but this week Satan got to
them... So they all fell this past week and won't get baptized. It was tough, I
love them so much. Many are called but few are chosen. I guess I just need to
realize that everyone isn't ready to have the gospel in their lives yet.. That's
why you need to work so hard and talk to literally every person you see to find
the person/family of gold.
This past week we talked to so many people and had
so many lessons, but none of them seemed to be ready, so we are kinda
struggling with investigators right now, but working hard to find some new
people! People have no idea what a mission really is until you go on one. Whew!
I don't have much to say this week, but so sad to hear what's going on at Lone Peak... It's too bad, but we need to always be an example and nice to people because we
never know what they are going through in their own lives.
This week I printed
off an article about the Book of Mormon, one word, Incredible. Bottom line, if
the Book of Mormon is true, everything else just falls into place. Joseph Smith
really saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith really was
called to be the prophet in the Restoration of all things, Joseph Smith
translated the Book of Mormon from "plates" that everyone knew he had
something special, and so on. Most people that talk bad about the Book of
Mormon have never even read the book. They just hear something from a person
and just assume that its correct. It's absurd. If the Book of Mormon is true, La
Iglesia De Jesucristo De Los Santos De Los Últimos Dias es la Iglesia verdadera
sobre la faz de la tierra. Then it goes on and says just read the book then ask
yourself these questions...
(To request a free copy of the Book of Mormon, click on the link above.)
- Could an uneducated
boy come up with 531 pages of ancient scripture on his own that was
historically accurate and prophetic in nature?
- How could Joseph
Smith come up with roughly 200 names in The Book of Mormon and the story that
goes along with it?
- If you think Joseph
Smith couldn't have written this book, then were did it come from? If one says
the devil put him up to it... them why would Satan want to publish another
testament of Jesus Christ and a book that does nothing but promote
righteousness. Jesus said that a house divided against itself would fall.
- Who were the
"other sheep" that would hear Jesus' voice in John 10:16?
- If we have the
stick of Judah (record of the Jews or the Bible), then where is the stick of Joseph that is referenced in Ezekiel 37:15-20? The Book of Mormon is the only
explanation for this scripture. Lehi was a descendant of Joseph. Think Joseph
Smith could have gotten that right by sheer chance?
- How could there be
so many witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the plates and not one of them deny
their testimony even when some of them became bitter toward Joseph Smith? With
so many people involved... a hoax of this magnitude could never go uncovered.
- How could the Book
of Mormon never contradict itself while being an extremely complex book? After
all these years... someone would have found something... but no.
***And the most
important question to ask yourself, How do I feel while I read the Book of
Mormon??? 1Kings 19:12
Doctrine and Covenants 6:23 What greater
witness can you have than from God?
If you've never read
the book, read it! If you say no, why not?
Something that Elder
Holland said that I put into my daily life as a missionary is, "I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared
to the world... that the Book of Mormon is true."
The Book of Mormon is
true. The church is true. I hold in my hands the happiness of more people than I can now imagine.
Elder Copeland
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