La Restauracion
This week I gained a greater testimony of the restoration of
the Gospel. There were two lessons this week that really stood out. The first
was with Marianana. She has a baptismal date but does not want to come to
church. We reviewed the restoration with her to try and find her doubt and we
discovered she was very skeptical about Joseph Smith. We had a great lesson
that was very inspired. At the end of it, we all kneeled and I gave the last
prayer asking God if it was all true. The spirit filled the room and I honestly
felt "fire in my bosom"
The next day we found ourselves in the living room of some
very rich "Evangelicos" I don’t know what religion would be in English
but basically, they were determined to let us know the error of our ways. We
shared the Book of Mormon and after avoiding all their efforts to Bible bash, I
suggested that they read and pray about the Book of Mormon and we would take
and read the three pages of notes they had prepared beforehand to convince us
Joseph Smith was not a prophet and we would pray about it.
We followed through on our part and their ideas were just so
flawed. As i prayed to know if what they had written was true, I came to better
understand what a "stupor of thought" feels like. Mainly because all
of the thoughts written on those papers were stupid ;)
I testify that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that this is
the True and Restored Church of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is the word of
God.
Elder Nixon
(just for the record, if I had
wanted to, I totally could have won in the Bible bash)
