Daily Archives: October 27, 2013

President Anderson’s Letter 27 October 2013

Here are the spiritual experiences that the President shared this week…

“An incredible miracle we experienced this week was the opportunity to drop one of our most solid investigators.  She made it clear that it was time for us to focus on baptizing someone else and we had a delightful drop-talk with her.  But that wasn’t the miracle.  After that we left for our second lesson with a new investigator.  We met in the sacrament room and he had read 1 Nephi 1 and 2!  Then we taught him some clear and simple doctrine and asked him questions to help him to understand and internalize it.  He felt a desire to be baptized so he could serve others more closely to the way that Jesus Christ did.  We boldly invited him for a date and he accepted.  Immediately, we were compensated – in fact, the Lord seemed to have given us even more.  He came to Church and his baptism is next Sunday.”

The power of teaching people with our testimony of the Book of Mormon will produce miraculous conversion:

“The first door that my companion and I knocked was a guy named Nicholas. As he invited us into his home we both saw a Book of Mormon on the coffee table. So we immediately asked him if it belonged to him. He explained that it has been in his house for years and last week he found it and decided to read it. He opened the pages to show us and all of first Nephi was marked and he said he loved it. Then we asked him if he has ever been to church or talked to the missionaries, he said no but now he wants to. My companion did the best thing ever and invited him to be baptized right there. And of course Nicholas said yes! So we promised blessings, left a blessing, recognized the Holy Ghost and set up a return appointment. After we walked out of the house we just looked at each other and in shock asked each other what just happened! Ha the Book of Mormon is soo powerful. It is converting people before they even know what it actually is!”

Teaching them the “why” and how they can connect with doctrine is powerful:

“We were teaching an investigator who was a referral … He’s been back and forth [out of town] on business and it has been difficult to teach him. When we saw him on Wednesday he expressed doubts about being baptized so quickly. He felt like he needed to wait and learn more before he made this step. We were doing our best to listen to him and the Spirit and as we did, a prompting came to read Helaman 5:12. We had him read it and he loved it! He said it was the first time he really connected with the Book of Mormon. We explained to him why it was important to not put off this important step in his life. The spirit was very strong and he agreed wholeheartedly. He is now preparing to be baptized this Wednesday! We told him that baptism was just the first step and that the temple was the real goal. He is so excited to go to the temple and be a faithful member of this church!”