From page 7 of Preach My Gospel, “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is convincing evidence that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored. It is the keystone of our religion, the most powerful resource for teaching this message.”
In Alma 32, the prophet Alma teaches us about faith, and how if we would experiment upon his words (he mentions experimenting 3 times), that we would find his words to be good. When I connect this sermon on faith with Moroni’s challenge in Moroni 10: 3-5, I think that Moroni is asking us to “experiment” upon his word. Now, most of you know that I have a scientific background and thus have done lots of experiments. The basis of any experiment is to have carefully controlled conditions. Then if you follow the procedure, you will obtain a certain result and it will be the same result every time!
Alma says to, “exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than to desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.”
Moroni tells us to, “Ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
When we challenge an investigator to experiment upon the word, if they come up with any other result except that the BOM is true, and is the word of God, they did the experiment wrong! Let’s help them learn to listen to the Spirit, and to exercise a particle of faith. Let’s help them to pray, not just to pray as they always have, but with a sincere heart and with real intent, meaning that they intend to change according to the answer they receive. Certainly, only they can open their heart and sincerely yearn for truth. So, if they did not obtain the correct result in their experiment, they did not control the conditions of the experiment as set forth by Alma and Moroni.
This week we received our transfer calls and Elder Fua and I will be staying together for another transfer! Crazy to think that I only have three left. I hope that Everyone was able to have a great Valentines day as we as missionaries were able to. We had the privilege to be waitors at our valentines party at the branch here in Sav. We spent the night serving others and just being goofy haha.
A next thing that happened this week was we had 3 baptisms!!! Most stressful planning of my life so far haha. Because one of the parents backed out of letting her son be baptized but we were able to set some goals with her and she gave him permission so we took him haha. Dante was baptized and it was so awesome:)
We also had Zone Conference this week and it was so nice to be able to see some good friends. I love being able to interact with previous companions or even missionaries that I have served around. It fills you with so much joy.
-Elder Gibbons-
Keep Trying. Keep Pushing. Keep Believing. Keep Growing. Heaven is Cheering You on Today, Tomorrow, and Forever
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