October 24, 2011

So this past week was good although I think I am getting sick. My throat is killing me and I have had a killer headache for a few days.

Jose still seems good to go for his baptism this saturday. He just loves to talk and joke around so it makes the lessons super long sometimes. The otherday we taught a lesson on the Word of Wisdom that took an hour and a half because he had a ton of comments and questions. He is way awesome though and he loves it when we come over to teach.

Lucero is another one of our investigators who we have started teaching recently. She seemed pretty interested but she has a ton of doubts. Leaving her house after teaching a doctrinaly and spiritually sound lesson we pondered on how she can have so many doubts and how people can be so confused about who God is. She told us she doesn't believe that God is a man, she believes God is love and God is peace but he doesn't literally exist. She believes God created our spirits, I was so confused. How can God not really exist and still create us. How can God just be love and peace and still know us personally. I know God is a man, and I know that understanding His nature and who He is is key to understanding who we are and our purpose.

This past week we were finally able to meet with Lizeth. Our senior couple has been a huge help lately with Lizeth and Erik. Erik is always out of town working and he takes the only phone and car they have so it makes communication almost impossible with Lizeth. The Crawfords (senior couple) went over to their house this past week and took Lizeth and her kids out to dinner and then brought them to the church so Lizeth could go to the english class. Afterwards we taught her and the Crawfords watched her kids. It was a huge help and she is still crazy excited about getting baptized, they just need to find a time when Erik is in town so they can get married.

The baptism for Rubi and Alejndro was awesome! It was a spiritually over powering baptism in which tears were shed. The room was full with people standing everywhere and also a ton of missionaries were there. Having been taught for two years several (to say the least) missionaries have been involved in the teaching process. After two years of finally waiting they were able to be baptized. As I pulled Rubi up from out of the water she just looked at me with tears in her eyes and said "Gracias, gracias". It was an awesome experience that I will never forget.
I feel that people who have never really done an investigation of the church and it teachings are left in the dark. They do not understand what they are missing out on. They do not understand the blessings they are foregoing. It's all true, it really is, and people who dont believe in this work have never sincerely read and prayed about the Book of Mormon either that or they have denied the spirtual confirmtion they have recieved. It may be a bold statement to make that this is the only true church on the face of the earth but it is a statement I feel confident making for I have recieved a witness of it truthfulness.

Love, Elder Jolly