It has been an amazing week! We had a baptism this weekend and the picture attached is from the baptism.
Yeah,
so our investigator, Lisa, was baptized this past Saturday, It is
truly amazing how the gospel can change someone's life. Lisa asked me
to speak at the baptism, on baptism, and it was just an amazing
experience, the spirit was so strong there, and it is incredible to see
the changes in Lisa's life, and in her boyfriend Zack's life as he
overcame a lot to be able to baptize her.
I
feel that I have learned so much this past week! I have learned the
Importance and the difference that being bold can make. As I was on
splits with Elder Carbonneau this week I truly learned how big of a
difference that being bold can be. As we were teaching one of his
investigators the investigator was trying to flake on his baptism and
Elder Carbonneau basically told him that If he didn't get baptized that
week on his set date, then Satan would gain control of him and he would
never be baptized. The investigator was baptized on Friday. I have
learned so much about just always trying to love my companion. There are
quite a few days that he just drives me insane, but I have learned to
look past that and to Love him any way.
I
have really been studying and pondering a lot this week and one of the
talks that I have been reading is the Character of Christ by David A.
Bednar and it is truly an amazing talk and I personally have learned so
much and been very uplifted from it. Here is a quote from it
"Perhaps
the greatest indicator of character is the capacity to recognize and
appropriately respond to other people who are experiencing the very
challenge or adversity that is most immediately and forcefully pressing
upon us. Character is revealed, for example, in the power to discern the
suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the
ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the
power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of
others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress. Thus,
character is demonstrated by looking and reaching outward when the
natural and instinctive response is to be self-absorbed and turn inward.
If such a capacity is indeed the ultimate criterion of moral character,
then the Savior of the world is the perfect example of such a
consistent and charitable character." -David A. Bednar
I hope that all is going well
Elder Bangerter
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