Changes required to be happy

I don't know how we lucked out to find R. but this man is one of a kind as far as investigators go. I have never had an investigator as easy as him, he does and accepts everything we tell him.

One perfect example, he has been studying with the Jehovah's witnesses for a long time and so he believed, naturally, that Jehovah is our Heavenly Father and prays to Jehovah in the name of Christ. We knew for him to be converted obviously he needed to understand better the Godhead. So we spent a whole lesson on God, Christ, and The Holy Ghost. He was a little confused after the lesson and told us the he believed us but it was hard for him to accept that Christ is Jehovah, so we gave him some homework in the Book of Mormon and the Bible and told him to pray about what we talked about....

In the next lesson he told us he insisted on saying the prayer, and prayed very fervently to our Heavenly Father in the name of Christ. It was so powerful to hear him say a prayer so fervently to his Heavenly Father and the change that he has felt in his life because of it. We also taught him about President Monson this week and the importance of a living prophet, he took one look at the picture of President Monson and asked us if we could print him another copy so he could hang it in his house and told us he can't wait until general conference to hear the words of the prophet of God. He showed up to church this week and told me he can't wait to be baptized and started to cry and told me that he has been waiting to be baptized in the true church for a long time he will do whatever it takes to get baptized.

He dumped his girlfriend after the lesson about Chastity, chucked his coffee after the lesson of the word of wisdom, prays with all his heart to understand and progress, and to top it off invites his friends to listen to us to, but they aren't as interested...haha.

It honestly humbles me to be this mans missionary, there hasn't been a baptism in Tlahualilo in a long time and there have been hundreds of Elders sweeping this area and it just happened to be me and my companion who found this man.

We had four of our investigators show up to church and all 4 will be baptized within a month. Also we had several less active members show up making our attendance more than it has been since I got here. The Lord is blessing us so much as we just work and pray and don't take crap from Satan. Its not to say that he doesn't give us a lot of hard times, but one of the key things in the mission is to learn damage control and trust me when our investigators are progressing if we don't put in the extra effort Satan goes to town, but if we do everything we can Heavenly Father blesses us with the words, and service necessary to save his children.

I have learned so much about God on the mission and about His very real desire to do everything to save His children. We are also teaching a less active member that is an angry, lost 19 year old kid....who does that remind me of.... He tells us all he wants is to be happy and he doesn't understand why God doesn't help him out. He tells us that he doesn't even know what he wants to be happy just he wants to be happy. He doesn't read his scriptures, or pray, and in church he just sits around and plays on his phone, and he asks us where is God.... haha it really is exactly like me.

Where is God? If we don't do anything how can we expect God to solve it all for us? In the mission I have really learned what it means by the faith is action, what it means to be saved by grace after all we can do. God will not do something for us that we can do for ourselves. If all we do is ask God to make it all better and then sit around and wait what can we expect from a God that has given us everything we need to make it back. I really have learned what the gospel can give us, how to progress grace by grace until we reach our potential as children of God, the gospel really is for our happiness, Christ offers us happiness, the trick is for us to learn how to live his gospel.

It's the hardest thing in the world, some days it requires everything I have to just say okay Father, I'll do it, but in the end it really was what I needed.

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