This week we found a couple people who like to test the
waters but wont jump in on account of full faith. so we are working
with them they are pretty incredible people.
One
of them we just taught yesterday and he laughed at us because we want
to come back and teach him but he let us in anyways though he had met
with missionaries in the past, when he opend the door he said so your
here to debate?! well come in then, and before we entered we tried to
assure him that we were not there to do anything of the sort. however we
sat with him, i think because he had such an experience in the past he
was guarded and you cold feel the spirit of contention there a little
bit, it wasn't super strong we tried very hard to not feed it but he was
very defensive. we shared with him many truths from the scriptures and
tried to teach an organized lesson but didnt get the chance so we set
the scene up so that next time we go over which will be Friday (yay!) to teach the paln of salvation.
While we were there in that lesson we talked about god and who he
is. his questions were along the lines of is there only one god? are
there more? and is god masculine or god feminine? and when we become
gods do we become higher than him or what? and so i pulled out my handy
dandy scriptures and opened to Genesis where in many parts it says the
LORD God, knowing that LORD refers to Jesus Christ, so Christ is a God
but we also have our heavenly father who is a god and is Christ father
as well.. and i dint get to explain it very well becuase he interjected
and said Christ couldn't be that god in the old testament because that
God is vengeful and the god in the new testament is loving and caring
there is no way they can be the same person. and it hit, immediately the
spirit taught me that Christ was not exempt from this plan of our
heavenly father that he too had a time when he needed to come down that
yes in the old testament he is vengeful at times but he hadn't gone
through mortality to completely understand and that is why in the new
testament he seems more loving and more caring, he just like us is
learning coming to understand, and on top of it we know he had a special
calling because not only did he experience his own life but he suffered
for everyone's sins, imagine the understanding he had afterwards and
now when we call upon him we can do so with assurance that he knows
perfectly our circumstance. i thought it was incredible of course i
didn't share that with him because it didn't feel appropriate but it was
just so ... well i don't have words for it but my chest almost burst
from the desire to be taught and understand more!! it just was a proving
point that these lessons we have are not only for the investigator but
we also learn. i loved it!! that was one of my highlights for the week!!
lots
of finding yet to do still many poeple to help. we are working with
lots of less actives too. and its incredible this young man i mentioned
last week, he didnt come to church but we taught him again and he didnt
even know the law of chastity was a commandment!! so it is definitely a
blessing we can help him see and understand what god expects of us,
beucase he does want to do good he just doesnt know what good entails of
really, so its exciting!!
i Love you all!!
SIster Hadley
ps
i had exchanges this week, heres a picture.. our apartment was being
fixed this week so we didnt get to shower for two days so i just put my
hair in a hat the second day becuase it was all greasy... that explains
the hat-do
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