Hello. how are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm doing AWESOME!
What a week. We have been busy, working hard, biking far, and teaching stars.
We
have an investigator who was going through a divorce, but now that it's
over he said he's going to start coming to church. We are really
excited about that. In the very first lesson we had with him we commited
him to be baptized a month from then and he accepted. Unfortuneatly the
divorce happened, but once he starts coming to church he will shortly
thereafter be baptized. It will be awesome.
We had another investigator who is sincere about investigating, but
has a hard time making it to church. He wants to come, he just doesn't.
We are striving to help him the best we can. He is a really great
brother.
Brother Tom read from the Book of Mormon. He understood what he
read and had questions for us. I love questions! One question he asked
cuaght us off guard becuase we've never been asked it before. The
question is "were there baptisms done in the old testiment?" essentially
before Christ. By looking only at the old testiment, without modern
revelation, it is difficult to answer becuase the old testiment is very
vague on that subject. It never out right says "he was baptized." or
Whatever prase you like using the word baptism. However there are
referances to it. But for me the best thing that shows baptisms occured
in the old testiment is not actually in the old testiment, but the new
testiment. John the Baptist was baptizing for some time before Jesus
Christ started His ministry. As well the peoples general acceptance of
it shows that it was a commen practice at the time. If it were not
commonly accepted it probably would have the same effect as when the
church did away with circumcision, or started preaching to all people
not just the Jews. It was a good question.
We had a good week. This ward is awesome! I love being a missionary!
May the Spirit be with you!
Elder Durrant
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