But If You Try Sometimes, You´ll Find, You Get What You Need." -The Rolling Stones
This week was awesome family!!!! We were doing weekly planning and we were reviewing our investigator, Teverson, and realized that he was ready to be baptized that weekend (he had a date for the 21) and so we prayed and felt a strong impression that he should be baptized. We went to his house that night and said "Listen, we were praying and planning this morning and we feel that you could be baptized this weekend, (one week earlier than we marked). Would you like to be baptized this weekend?"
He looked at us and said, "You know what? I would like to be baptized this weekend." And so he was. It was a fantastic baptism. I got emotional. You see, he is 20 years old and his sister who is married and lives behind him, was baptized about 7 months ago. She started bringing him to activities and then to church and then we started teaching him (in her house) and then he was baptized. At his baptism, she bore her testimony and I couldn´t help but think about my family and my sisters. I felt the Spirit so strong and I knew that if we grew up in a family without the gospel and any of my sisters found the gospel that they would do anything to have me become a part of this great blessing. The love that exists in our family is so special.
Today we got the zone together to do personal and companionship study together. For personal study, we watched a talk by Elder Holland that he gave to a group of missionaries. At the end he talked about Peter. He said that after Christ´s death Peter became the leader of the church and he felt the weight and the pressure of the prophetic mantle that feel and he was so nervous. After seeing the empty tomb what did they do? They decided to go back to Galilee and do the thing that they did before Jesus Christ called them. They decided to go fishing and then they passed the whole night and didn´t catch anything. In the morning, a figure appeared on the shore and told them to try on the other side. They did and caught a ton. Then they realized it was Jesus the Christ. Peter jumped out to be with him. When they all got there, He prepared a breakfast for them. Then Jesus asked Peter "Lovest thou me?" "Yes" "Lovest thou me?" "Yes" "Lovest thou me?" "Yes Lord you know I lovest thee" "Then feed my sheep" and Elder Holland started getting passionate. He said "Then don´t go back and do the things you did before I called you! When I called you to be an apostle it was forever. WHEN I CALLED YOU TO BE A MISSIONARY, IT WAS FOREVER. The life you knew Peter, before your mission is over and you are mine now. You must be completely devoted to be because I called you to serve me forever."
I will end my mission but I will continue to be a missionary. Some of these rules, I will keep forever and I will never go back to the way I was before.
After the video we practiced teaching the first lesson in a minute and then after, in 3 minutes. It was great.
The work is true! This church is true and is the only true and living church of God. I love you all so much!!!!
-Elder Askins
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