Missionary Mother's Moments

I'm completely bummed i missed chatting with him today... but here's his email:

 

Ahhh, this is a decent week.

 

Well, the only highlight this week was probably Interviews with President Merkley (last one) since he is leaving next month. Then on Saturday and Sunday we had stake conference.

 

After interviews with President the 3 Bartlesville areas and the assistants had lunch at Burgerhop. Since 2nd ward was going on exchanges/blitz with the assistants. Since elder ward was in Bartlesville, he knew where to go. We had to break in elder Johnson by having him eat the breakfast platter, a really big amount of food with a side of two biscuits with white gravy on it.

 

Then on Saturday we went to the Saturday's session of the adult session of conference, we before went to have dinner at Wendy's and I bought the action Bible!! It's a version of the Bible in comic book form. May seem sacriligious but it illustrates the bible really well, and I can, see myself using it for story time with my kids before they go to bed! Elder Berg and I found a good point in it, before it got to noah and the ark it said that the people rejected the things that adam and others had taught, and they went into an early apostasy, hey that's what we teach!!!

 

well, that is all I really have to report. Our investigator who was going to get baptized next saturday, told us before stake conference started on sunday, that he had a couple cigarettes this week and he didn't feel ready to be baptized. We just set the date back to the 30th of June, give him time to get rid of everything, since he has a cigarette machine which makes it cheaper to get cigarettes but you don't get the filter in the cigarette so in essence you are giving all of the effects of the cigarette instead of just most of it. Anyways, if you want, you can pray, I'm not suppose to ask family to do things like that, well at least fasting I'm not.

 

Well, I finished reading the Book of Mormon on Saturday, for the 5th time on my mission. I will talk a little bit about the book of Moroni. The Book of Moroni is a peculiar book because he didn't expect to write it. This is a book that doesn't talk about history, it doesn't account for the historical aspect of the Book of Mormon. The whole 10 chapters in the book are just pact full of things that will help us in this life. The first 5 chapters it talks about ordination, the sacrament and things that they did at that time and this is interesting because we have those things in the Book of Mormon and in the Doctrine and Covenants (section 20.) Chapter 6 is a short chapter but it is pact full of why we go to church, why we partake of the sacrament and the importance of coming to church. Chapter 7 explains to us the meaning of charity, faith & hope. The whole chapter talks about juding people rigtheously (yes there is such a thing) and helping us understand how to apply that to our lives. Being members of the restored church, we should exemplify these characterisitics because we have such increased knowledge from this chapter alone. Chapter 8 is mainly used for infant baptisms, but it is a good one of explaining that we need to endure to the end and keep a hold of our baptismal covenant. Chapter 9 is probably the only one that actually has some history. Chapter 10 is the most well known, it, in of itself is an awesome chapter. Moroni exhorts us (strongly encourages) to read these records (the Book of Mormon) and ponder its meaning and then to pray about it. Then he goes on to tell us about spiritual gifts, and striving to be found spotless before we meet our eternal Maker. The Book of Moroni is a pure diamond book, it has pure truth that is plain and stalwart in it's declaration. After reading that book you cannot be confused, because it is so plain. That is why I love the Book of Mormon, there are few things in there that are confusing, the doctrine it teaches is not confusing, the history maybe, but everything else is plain. I know that the Book of Mormon is THE very word of God and it professes to be so and it does so with great skill and is inline with the teachings of the Prophets and Apostles from the beginning to the end. I leave this with you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.