This has been a good week! We asked one of our investigators to get baptized, and she accepted! She has a testimony of the Book of Mormon, and luck is on our side because she stays at home all day with her little 2 year old, so has plenty of time to read :) She is in Ether! Unfortunately, so didn't come to church yesterday.... We have decided to revamp our church invitations by actually teaching about the commandment of keeping the Sabbath Day holy and why we go to church. Yeah. That should help. It is funny. In the MTC I felt like "Wow. How on earth will I think of things to teach for as many lessons as people will need before baptism! There are only 4 lessons!" Little did I know. Everyday I just wish I could see the same people. It has been interesting trying to figure out how to convert people to Christ. It is definitely not enough to be converted to the church or the people in the church. I have been thinking about it a lot and really want to figure it out. I know that I do the things that I do because I love my Heavenly Father and Savior and want to be like them and keep their commandments. I try to sacrifice for them out of love and obedience. Teaching the lessons doesn't help people learn that! So what does? Now I am seeing what commitments are important. As a missionary I need to help them make habits so that they can receive those experiences that truly convert them. This is definitely not the easiest thing in the world! The Spirit testifying is truly the only thing that helps my investigators. We had a neat experience the other day. We found this family and were thinking they were just great. They are 7th Day Adventists. Well... The lesson turned a little into a moment of bible bashing (which is really interesting in the Spanish culture because they are the most polite people I have ever met in my entire life). For our return appointment, we decided that we would just drop them, but we wanted to leave them with the Plan of Salvation. We prayed very earnestly that the Spirit would be with us and decided that we would just leave if the Spirit left. What a blessing that lesson was! I watched as the Spirit testified truth to the father and he realized that he had questions that had never been answered before, such as about baptisms for the dead. We didn't bring up the Book of Mormon, so next time we are going to see if they are willing to read, and if not, we will have to leave them in the area book to be re-found when they are ready. Our sister training leader had apparently taught him before and said that we needed to be really careful because he would try to sway us and convert us. Maybe this last lesson is the last one that will happen with them for a time, but I feel good in my heart knowing that one more family has heard the truth about The Plan of Happiness. The Book of Mormon is amazing. If I ever have doubts or fears, I can read the Book of Mormon and read of the prophecies that are being fulfilled right before my eyes. It is neat to be able to witness these prophecies being fulfilled.
With love,
Hermana Clark
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