From April 23, 2012

ok sooo .. I JUST received Last weeks email after i read this weeks it poped up and confused me a bit... well.. lets see one of the best lessions i have been in soo far since returning is when we were passing by a possible in order to share the first message.. she had said that she hadnt had time when we knocked the first time but set a date for the next saturday so we could pass by and see her.. just another quick lesson at the door to see if we could spark up a wanting to know the truth .. when we went back on saturday she had been waiting for us and only had one question to start .. what is the message you have for me? .. We continued to share a first lession (in which we teach the principles of "god is your loving heavenly father","Prophets","The saviors earthly ministry and Atonement", "The great Apostasy","then "The restoration of the gospel"[durring whitch we share the first vision],"The book of Mormon",and "how you can know") we asked her questions after just about each principle such as "would having a prophet like moses on the earth today help you? change your life?" and  "what would it mean to you to know that the Book of Mormon is the word of god?" and by the end she had excepted a baptismal date at whitch point we found out that her daughter who lives up in like michigan or something like that has been telling her all about what we believe because her daughter is taking lessions with Missionaries there as well.. and the last question she asked us.. in a rather defeated tone... was "Soo if this is true i need to stop praying to my saints?"  and we could tell that the spirit had already testified to her that theese things were true and that (although stubbournly at first) she would be willing to change her life to come closer to her heavenly father. She was easily conviced to close the lesson with a word of prayer .. and after a quick lesson on how to pray she offered a beautiful and sincere prayer where she thanked the lord for us coming to help her and she continued to ask forgiveness from the lord and began to weep as she asked for it. In just one short hour Carmen had acepted our invitation to her to grow closer to her savior by means of showing her faith and repenting of any transgressions she has made AND by accepting to prepare to be baptised on the 26th of may in order to recieve the Holy Spirit of god as her constant companion. It was a testomony building experience to me that if we follow the spirit and invite others to come unto Christ, and help them understand our message by asking them questions that make them think and that challenge them to grow. We can successfully bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the HEARTS of those we teach.

I hope this is what your looking for.. ill have to practice a bit because i ran out of time today but theyll get better (hopefully) I love you Mom!

-Elder Taylor Westbrook Logan