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Monday, March 29, 2018 - "We have left all, and followed thee" Luke 18:28

How is it going y'all?!

Super awesome week this week!! So, first off, we have someone lining up for baptism on April 7th!! We are super excited. We put him on date during exchanges. The kid is 12 years old and came to church for the first time yesterday and loved it! During the lesson, I was talking with the parents and the companion I was with (Elder Jones from North Carolina, he doesn't speak Spanish (it was a Hispanic family) but he does speak Portuguese so he was able to do just fine). Anyways, as I was talking, I hear him ask out of the blue "So do you wanna get baptized on April 7th?" I looked over like "Huh? What happened?" And then the kid looked at his mom and said "Hey Mom I'm getting baptized on April 7th." It was super cool, and he is super stoked now. 

On Friday we had a super good lesson with someone we used to teach. Our zone leaders even joined in the lesson through Skype. We had tried putting him on date for baptism so many times prior, even our Mission President did once, because we thought he was super ready!! Anyways, we were going to try and do it again on Friday. We were talking for about an hour and 15 minutes about baptism and all the many blessing that come from it. And then we figured out why he hasn't been baptized. He hasn't received a true testimony about the Book of Mormon. He reads it everyday, and not only that but marks passages that he likes and things like that. But he hasn't prayed to know if it is true. If you receive that witness, which Moroni promises that we WILL receive so long as we ask truly wanting to know (Moroni 10:4-5), then everything else fits into place. You know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God and that we have prophets on the earth today leading and guiding us. You know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer and that because of him, all of us can live with our Father in Heaven again. You know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints IS Christ's church here upon the earth today and that it was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. All of that relies on a testimony and witness that the Book of Mormon is true. 

One thing I learned during my personal study this week is in Alma chapter 26. Here Ammon the missionary is talking to his brothers Aaron, Omner, and Himni. He asks a great question to them in verse 16. He said "Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord?" The answer is: no one can. There isn't a limit, or a maximum level to which we can praise Him. So why not do it as much as we can? 

Moroni 10:7 

-Élder Wilkes



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