8.24.15
Hey there!
Sorry I didn't update you last week. It always throws me off
when we have P-day on Wednesday. We have been having a lot of good things going
on over here in the east though! We have 5 people who have accepted to be
baptized in the near future and have a handful of others who want to do lots to
change their life.
We had a lesson with a man this week and were talking to him
about how important it is to turn all our challenges over to Christ. As we were
talking about this I brought up a quote by Brad Wilcox, which I do often which
is, "No unclean thing can dwell with God, But no unchanged thing will even
want to." While I said this the thought came to my mind that Christ forgets
everything we do if we truly repent of it. Christ has felt all our pains and
sorrows and Christ knows all our sins and when we ask for forgiveness that
means that he has to remember them know more. So as we repent we are letting
Christ forget those sins when we truly apply that atonement and do not dwell on
our mistakes and just let the atonement work in our life. I know that the
atonement is real and that we can apply it, and when we let it work in our
lives we will truly be blessed for it and will be happy again when we can let
that guilt free.
Another family that we have been working with is a single
mother who is a less active member and her daughters are not members but have
lots of questions about God and she has been interested in getting back to
church. This week we went over and taught them, her girls are 8 and 12, and
brought over our stake president’s daughter who is 16 and she worked with the
girls really well. We talked about Alma 32 and how important it is to have
faith in our lives and we did a little activity at the end where we put a box
of animal crackers in a bag and my companion knew what was in the bag and she
told the girls what was in it and they didn't believe her and we related it to
faith. It was really cute and the best lesson we have had with the girls and
the spirit was really strong there.
Yesterday we got a text from this couple who we tracted into
the week previous and it was really interesting. So a little back ground
knowledge, when we tracted into this family they told us we could come in and
he said that he wanted us to tell him something that he hadn't already heard.
He said that he knew all about Christ and that we probably didn't have anything
new to tell him. And then we told him about the restoration. When we asked him
to read the Book of Mormon he said no and then we told him how it is comparable
to the bible and showed him the foot notes. He told us that when we showed him
that they work together that he would read it. Then we invited him to be
baptized and he said that being baptized was just a show for others. Um in the
bible it says that it is a commandment to be baptized and we talked a little
about how Christ was baptized to fulfill all righteousness. Then he said he
would think about doing it again now that it would be his choice and if it was
not in front of a whole bunch of people. So that was our first lesson then
yesterday he texted us that he had God on his mind and asked us what he should
do, may I say he texted us while we were at church. We texted him back and told
him to read the book of Mormon Alma 34, and what he was thinking about. He told
us that he was worried about going to hell for all the bad things he had done
and that he wanted to make it all right but wasn't sure how to do that. Hello
plan of salvation, right? This guy is really cool and wants so badly to follow
Christ. I am so glad that he let us in instead of turning us away like he said
he had done to lots of missionaries in the past.
Lots of good missionary work going on over here in
Christiansburg and we have really learned lots. We have a conference this week
with our mission president and our preparation for it was reading about
commitments in preach my gospel and studying Alma 32. I am really excited about
it. I hope you all are doing well and hope to hear from you soon!
Love Sister Mauck
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