What Are You Sharing With The World?

Legit – after I got off the phone with my family, I jumped into gear and got a whiteboard and scriptures prepped for my lesson with my new investigator Sophia. We came out of the gates with the plan of salvation and drew the picture of two holes and how Christ built a bridge over the first one, but we need to climb a ladder out of the second one to get to God. It was a great lesson and the spirit was strongly present there. Sophia received the answer she needed and said that she would like to be baptized, so we marked a date right then and there for the 5th of February, but we are most likely going to move it back to the 13th. The only obstacle we have is that her mom wants her to know, not just the teachings/doctrine of Christ, but ALL THE STORIES TOO. It's going to make things harder, but I have faith everything will work out and she is super strong. We've met with her quite a bit this last week and it's been fun being with her and her member bf, Ben. We also had a lesson with Jake and Glen and they will also be preparing themselves for baptism, but there is no set date for them yet. I had the opportunity to go on a quick one day exchange with Elder Jack. I had a great time and it was good working with a diligent missionary who has been in the mission almost as long as I have. It was like two pros pulling up to a pickle ball match, we just wiped the courts with our gospel and spiritual knowledge. We were able to watch the baptism of Mark who was taught by the Sunset Lake Elders. Sophia and Ben attended with us and they both really enjoyed themselves which made me super happy. In this week's missionary devotional, Elder and Sister Vinson (who are from Australia) talked about the message we as missionaries are here to share with the world. With that in mind, he broke down all of the 9 paragraphs of "The Restoration Proclamation". He also invited us to study it more and apply what is written into our teachings because they truly are inspired words given to the entire world from living prophets. So I invite you to read over that proclamation this week so we can talk about what we both learned/thought was interesting in the coming week:) Tchau!!