This week has been so great! Except I'm sick...
But Elder Holland came and spoke to us last Wednesday! He
shook each of our hands which was so sweet and he truly had the softest hands I
have ever felt in my life.
He spoke about the principle of revelation and how
that is the keystone of our faith.
This transfer is called, "The
Keystone Transfer" and we're focusing solely on the Book of Mormon. We've
been taught about the empirical evidences of its truthfulness as well as the
evidences that are unseen, but felt.
Elder Holland talked about how the Book of Mormon is
a revelation that teaches us about revelation! It is through revelation today
that Christ leads and guides His church and it is through personal revelation
that we can find out for ourselves the truth of all things.
This really helped me
a lot. There are sooo many questions people ask about doctrinal support in the
Bible/BOM regarding our beliefs, and to be honest, certain doctrines we claim to
be true aren't found in either of those records.
So, in order to believe this
church is Christ's church, one has to accept the principle of continuous,
modern-day revelation.
As I've been thinking about anti questions I've gotten
about the temple, blacks and the priesthood, women and the priesthood, the
godhead, etc. the answer is REVELATION. I loved every minute of what Elder Holland said to
us.
We had 2 huge miracles this week! Last transfer when I
was with Sister Revoredo we took a tour with 2 members and their friend
who they had met in the airport!
In the airport they started talking to her
about the church and asked her if she wanted to come to Temple Square with them
until she had to catch her next flight. She said sure and when they got here,
we ended up being the sisters who took them on a tour.
The tour was good and
the spirit was there and so at the end we asked if we could keep in touch with
her and she gave us her email and her address and said she would just like to
learn over email.
We were a little sad but it wasn't a big deal so we gave her
a hug and said bye. I put her into our area book as a potential and sent her an
email the next day and looked up her ward (since she gave us her address) and
told her she should visit if she has a free Sunday.
Well, she didn't respond.
So, last week I was looking through our potential investigators and I thought
I'd just email her one more time and then put her as a former investigator.
Well, an hour later I check my email and GUESS WHO EMAILED!? The lady we took
on a tour! She said she'd been to church and had met with the missionaries
twice and was meeting with them again THIS week!!! I almost cried. I have never
had someone email me back and be progressing.
It was a huge miracle. It was
just one of those tender mercies God gives you to help you know that even
though you don't get to see what happens as a result of people coming to Temple
Square, the effects can be huge.
It also made me realize how important member
missionary work is. If that member in the airport wouldn't have opened his
mouth and shared a little something and invited her, she definitely would not be
meeting with missionaries right now and going to church.
I have the biggest
testimony that it's the little things we do that make the biggest difference.
Pray for missionary opportunities and then do the little things to help others
come closer to Christ.
Also, Charly got baptized!! She is the cutest little 9-year-old who came to Temple Square with her family. They hadn't been going to church
and had had a lot of trouble trying to get in touch with the missionaries and
so we have been teaching them over the phone and got the missionaries to start
visiting them!
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| The Temple Square 5K |
The last little highlight of this week was our Temple Square
5K! It was sooooo fun. Sister Linares and I have not been running very much in
the mornings (due to my terrible cold) so we were freaking out and thinking we
wouldn't be able to do the 3.1 miles but we actually ended up running it all
and finished in a half hour. I mean, not the best but not the worst it could
have been.
The run was really pretty. We went down this canyon by the capital
in SLC and the leaves are just so gorgeous here because everything is changing
for winter. Then we all had breakfast together as a mission and ate Einstein
bagels. I'm obsessed with that place. We used to eat them all the time in San
Diego and I didn't know they had one in Salt Lake but they do and it's super
close to Temple Square :)
Love you!
Sister Helton
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