Well another week has passed as well as another month of my mission. Yesterday, I completed 13 months in the mish. And to mark that 13 months, we had a baptism!! A family that we have been teaching for the past 3 weeks. Their names are E B and T M. We married them and baptised them yesterday afternoon. They were so excited to finally be able to take this step and start to receive the blessings of the Lord.
I have had a lot of spiritual experiences with this family. One day we showed up to talk to them about the Restoration and how it is important. He told us that he had read the pamphlet we had left behind several times and he liked the part where is talks about the truths that are lost when there isn't a prophet on the earth. SO he figured it would be logical to have a prophet now in these days and that it was important that the Lord needed to call another one to restore his church in the earth. He had pretty much taught himself the first lesson just by reading the pamphlet. We finished explaining the details and talked about the BoM. We read the intro and explained what it is and why we need it. They understood all of it. We then read in Moroni 10:3-5, the challenge to pray and ask God. Well after we read it, I asked him and his wife what they understood from it. They said that they needed to read it, think about it, and then ask God through prayer if it was true or not. And then he said something that I haven't heard from anyone here. He said that after we find out that it is true, we need to start living it and showing God that we truly want to follow him. I sat back and didn't speak because I didn't know what else to say. He had said it all himself and his wife knew it too. We committed them to read 3 Nephi 11 and then to start reading from the beginning if they wanted to.
The next day, we returned to see how they were and everything. We asked him where he was at in his reading and he surprised us both. He had read 3 Nephi 11 with his wife (she doesn't know how to read) and then they had read 1 Nephi 1 through 7. It was amazing!! Yesterday I asked him where he was in his reading and he said that he was in 1 Nephi 17. I asked him what part he liked best and he started to tell me about when Nephi and his brothers went back to get the family of Ismael and how his brothers got angry with him when they were headed back. When he was explaining it to me, he was using names, places, etc that any normal person would have to go back and reread it to remember. Him and his wife are extremely good at reading, listening and retaining the information that they get. They understood the need to be married and baptised and how the atonement of Jesus Christ is able to help them to become better in their lives. I love this family so much!!
I love the work of the Lord and I love being able to serve Him!!
Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.--The Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:8
¡¡¡Les Amo Mucho!!!
Elder Daugherty
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