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Monday, February 22, 2010

WHAT BRINGS PEACE IN OUR LIFES?

Another wonderful letter. This is taken from one of our Elders weekly letters,

"Well a week just passed and it was an amazing one, we had an amazing miracle happen on Thursday. We were knocking doors and this guy, named --------opened the door and we asked him what gives him peace and he said nothing. So he invited us in and we started talking about the importance of feeling peace in our lives. Both of us felt prompted to talk about baptism, so we talked about the difference between happiness and pleasure and then we told him that you obtain happiness by having faith in Christ, repenting, Baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. He read a scripture in Mosiah 2:41 and he loved it. And then my companion, following the prompting asked him if he would like to be baptized. And he accepted. We praised him for that decision he had just made and testified of its truthfulness. Then we asked him to pray and ask Heavenly Father if everything that we had said was true and he did. When he started praying, the spirit felt stronger than it was before and I started to listen to the most sincere prayer I have ever heard from someone we had just met. He recognized us as Heavenly messengers sent by our Father, and that we had just spoken of the things he had to do in order to obtain peace and happiness. He told God about his commitment to baptism and told God that he was willing to do whatever it took in order to follow the teachings he had just received by His 'angels'. He asked for guidance and strength to keep following that path. During the whole prayer (while hearing the most sincere words for guidance and help) I was praying to Heavenly Father in my heart that this man would receive an answer. When he finished praying, we waited for a couple of seconds and we asked him if he had felt something special and he said YES, I JUST FELT LIKE A WEIGHT WAS LIFTED FROM MY SHOULDERS. Then again the spirit testified to his heart. It has been one of the most amazing experiences of my mission I visited him this week and he is still strong. "

What a beautiful story and testimony.

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