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| Maria's baptism |
Hola Familia!
Thank you for sending the Easter fotos!
Do you guys know what the difference is between “Preaching”
the Gospel and “Sharing” the gospel? Like, what things do I lose the authority
to do when I get back home? I don’t actually know the difference between a
full-time missionary and a normal member, except that there are less rules and
no name-tag. We’re both supposed to 100% consecrate our souls to the Lord and
put him first in our life and try to save everyone possible by sharing gospel
truths and be a representative of Jesus Christ and do what he would do and be
obedient with exactness.
I’m thinking it’s that members don’t have the authority to
teach the principles to investigators, but I’m not sure if that’s true. Are you
allowed to contact people in the street and teach them a few principles? Or the
person sitting next to you in the airplane? Or can you only bear testimony and
give references to the full-time missionaries? It says in Doctrine & Covenants
that you “shouldn’t think you are called to preach until you have been called”
but then it says “if you have desires you are called to the work.”
We definitely have problems with the members we invite to accompany us trying to teach things-- and we can tell that they don’t have the same spirit of discernment (or training) that we do of what the investigator needs to hear. Not sure what the rules on that are.
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| Vanessa, Harper, Hassiby, Lia, Lorena Miguel Gonzalez Ramirez |
By the way, good job, Mom, for doing what they said in General
Conference and sharing what you are learning in PMG with your missionary. :)
Maybe you guys could start studying PMG for family night again? I remember we
did that a long time ago and it didn’t work very well, but that was back when I
thought I knew what PMG was talking about and assumed I knew it already.
Psshhh.
I put the Christmas card you sent me on the bulletin board
and I have been thinking about you all a lot this week. I love you. OH GOODNESS
we get to call in like 3 weeks!!!
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| Harper, Monica, Monica (mom), Lia, Norton, Alexander Lugo Briseño |
We have a teenage investigator named Gerardo who
said in the last cita (appointment) “Last night when I was asking God if the Book of Mormon
was true, I was asking him what path was the correct one. I thought about what
you said the first night we met, about how when we ask specific questions God
can give us specific questions. And then I thought about how you said we need
to ask with faith-- to decide to believe it and THEN ask God for a confirmation. So that's
what I did.” He got an answer. :) I don’t
even remember teaching him that-- or if I did it was something very brief. I
love how the Spirit carries things into hearts and into remembrance.
And that principle is SO true-- that is how I am learning
everything I am learning is by studying for specific questions and thinking
about it and coming to conclusions and having faith and then asking for
confirmation and it works.
I love you forever, fambly.
Love,
Hermana Ludlam
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