Hey Family, This has been a really good week here in Knoxville! How are things going there?
About a week or so ago, Elder Phippen and I took this YSA member, named Devin with us to go tracting because he just got his mission call and wanted to get some experience before he left. I was really hoping that we could have some cool experiences with him to get him pumped up for his mission. As we were tracting, we knocked into Dianne. She was about in her 40's, and her and her husband had a 20yr old ish son named Kevin. They let us in and told us that they had talked with missionaries in the past but weren't really interested in hearing more. But that they wanted to let us in out of the heat for a bit. Either way we started to talk about the love for Christ that we all had in common.
A week later all 3 of us went back and stopped in to see how that family was doing, and to see if we could share a little more.
We began by talking a little bit abort the Book Of Mormon. Dianne said, "I only believe in the New Testament and in Jesus Christ. That's all that I really need" Dianne, we know that you have such a strong desire to follow Christ and his teachings...What if somehow Christ really had more words out there for us, wouldn't you want to know about them?
Dianne said "well yeah i guess i would. But I know that Jesus Christ is the only name under heaven whereby salvation can come. And I don't believe that Joseph can get you there."
We then realized that she thought that the book of Mormon testified of Joseph Smith. So we showed her a bunch of scriptures in the book of Mormon that testified of Christ.
The Spirit was there, and she agreed that tonight she would pray to know if Joseph Smith was a true prophet and if the book of Mormon was true.
The next day while Elder Phippen and I were at zone conference we got a message from Dianne saying that she had exciting news!
We gave her a call and asked what her exciting news was? "Last night I got down and prayed, The Spirit told me that everything you both said was true!! It was so amazing!"
haha that's so cool Dianne! So will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized? we asked
"oh haha, well I’ve already been baptized"......... So then we realized that she didn't know what her answer meant.
We went by a couple days later and taught her about the restoration of the gospel, and committed her to pray, and ask if she needed to be baptized by priesthood authority.
Its so cool to see the spirit really changes hearts and be open to new things.
Yesterday we also had the chance to hear from Elder Gonzales of the 70- talk about someone that speaks by the spirit! that was tight!
Well I'm going to have to cut it short this week. But I love you all and hope you have an awesome week!
Love Elder Pearson
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