Monday, August 3, 2015

Email received July 20, 2015

Hello everyone!

Hope you all had a great week. We did here in College Station! Charles and Nicki will be getting baptized this week. It will be awesome. Charles has been doing so good. We had an appointment fall through this week and then they called 10 min before the lesson saying that they could still meet. So we are about to go to this appointment and then we realized that we needed a male to come with us. I was scrambling to see who we could get to come with us and then BAM. The name Charles popped into my head. So our investigator Charles, who didn't even believe in God 3 weeks ago, helped teach the plan of salvation. It was the sickest moment and ever!

This week while I was on campus an anti-mormon approached me. They all seem to have the same outline that they use on us. Anyway, he went off and later I did some pondering on the things he was saying. It came down to the fact that all this man wanted was evidence.  Evidence that the book of mormon was true, evidence that Joseph Smith was a prophet. PROOF PROOF PROOF. Now of course we can receive spiritual conformation which is proof. But all he seemed to want was physical or scientific evidence. This is the kind of evidence I'll be referring to when using that word. So, this is what I learned: the need for evidence  sprouts from doubt. We want evidence because we fear that it's wrong. There is no way to prove or disprove anything about God. If there was, this on going debate between god vs no god would have ended a long time ago. It was designed to be that way. Doubt and faith can never go together. Faith is a pre-requisite to receiving revelation. Therefore, if all we care or want is evidence or proof, we will never really know. Testimony is based on revelation, not evidence. Ok, I'm just straight preaching right now. Hopefully some of that made sense.

Anyway, that's all I've got for this week. Love you all!

-Elder Steed

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