Baptism Saturday & "Every Member A Missionary
Elder Langford's Update, Monday, March 4, 2013
Hey everyone,
Blog time!!! I have quite the hefty list! Hopefully I can prioritize
the points that I should address the most! Hererere goes!
Soooo,
on the way back from teaching someone who was a less active about
coming back to church, we were pretty bold! She basically was going back
and forth between our church and another church that she had grown fond
of. We basically told her that her church wasn't a bad church or a bad
place, but in a good, better, best sense, she could and knows what the
best is. The way for her to decide which church she felt was
the right one to go to was to read and pray about the Book of Mormon
with a sincere heart and real intent, so that she could know which
church was right for her to join. As we were driving home from the
lesson, we saw a really bad accident, head on collision, with the 'jaws
of life' being pulled out and everything... and I thought, that's why
we teach the gospel... again when the comfortable parts of our lives
slip away, and we come to a re-realization of how REAL death is, and how
present and temporal this life is. What a blessing we have to know what
we have to do to take all fear away from that situation, as did the
people of Ammon in Alma 24. So that happened and pretty intense thoughts
there.
We
found a nice, new, miracle investigator! We had a plan to go and
visit a less active that we had seen and talked to on the street on our
way home from biking. We got there, and he wasn't there. We called
him and he said he forgot he had something and didn't have our number.
So we made some backup plans which happened to be finding some potential
investigators in the same complex he lived in. As that came to no avail,
we were on our way to leaving, and there was just oneeee more door on
the left side, and we just said, ah lets go back and knock on it. Why
not? That's why we're here anyway right? So we knocked, and in a summed
up way, asked him if he wanted to hear a message about Jesus Christ. He
said yes and let us in! Haha!! So we talked to him for a while, bore
testimony of the Book of Mormon, and asked what his hopes and desires
were. He said that his main hope in this life was to get back to heaven.
If felt so good to be able to testify to him that we KNOW that the
things that we teach; the gospel of Jesus Christ, are the things that we
have to do in order to receive all the blessings of the celestial
kingdom! :) (We didn't say celestial kingdom, he wasn't ready for
that!). But yeah we talked to him, and he said he wanted and was ready
to
read and pray about the Book of Mormon to find for himself if it was
the true word of God. Pretty neat!
We
also had a baptism this past Saturday for Maggie. It went extremely
well, and I had the humble pleasure of being able to baptize her.
She's been a miracle and is definitely elect and converted to the
Gospel. It's interesting to see how the Gospel really is the same thing
that was taught to the Jews through the law of Moses. My testimony has
grown from being able to teach and see her Jewish traditions! It's a
shame she is moving to Dallas in a week, but is excited to attend the
temple down there!! We'll keep in touch!! She's a great woman!!! Great
sister of the church!
We
also had a mission wide fast, for finding and helping the elect receive
the gospel and helping the members to become more effective
missionaries. The very next day at church, we saw sooo many miracles! So
many people came up to us with referrals, and an investigator set a
baptismal date! Ohhh yeah!!! Plus we got to teach a Sunday School
lesson about
being a better member missionary, and I got to be King Benjamin for
the sunbeams! Can't beat that! Plus our amazing elder's quorum
president, Brother Crenshaw, bore such a powerful testimony in elder's
quorum of
just everyday being a member missionary and never missing a chance to
serve the Lord and share his Gospel! He also confirmed Maggie in
sacrament meeting. He's been such a great help to us, and he is the
humblest guy. (Maybe a little proud of his tennis!) :) He's fantastic
and has helped us through almost everything!!!!
Well, gotta go! Time just got lost there!!! I love you all!!!! Keep everyone in your
prayers, and pray always so the lord will consecrate everything you do
for your benefit :) Remember that! I love yah! Love, Elder Langford
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