Dear Family and Friends of the Florida Orlando Mission,
During 2016, we would like to share with you some of the
spiritual experiences our Missionaries have had here in the Florida Orlando
Mission. We look forward to you reading them and sharing in the spirit of
missionary work.
We love and thank you for your prayers and support.
Our love, President and Sister Berry
One of my most special experiences related to a recent
convert baptism
happened in Buena Vista YSA. The missionaries there had been
teaching
this young man named Scott. He was an atheist, and was
really just out
to prove other religions wrong. Although he had a particular
interest
in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The
missionaries
soon dropped him because he was just wasting our time. He
just wanted
to know about the church simply for intellectual reasons.
Two months or so after I arrived in the area we started to
teach him
again. He had claimed to have a change in heart. So we
started to
teach him again with a focus on making sure he was
investigating for
the right reasons. Soon after multiple visits, and
conversations we
came to the conclusion, my companion and I that he actually
had
changed. He wanted to be baptized, so we called President
Berry. Since
he was now known through out the mission and by president
Berry.
After continued teaching and two interviews by the mission
presidency
it was concluded that he was ready to be baptized. What a
joy this was
for me and my companion!! We had prayed and fasted that
everything
would go well, cause we both knew he was ready. About a
month later we
prepared for his baptism. His baptism went great! I had the
honor of
actually baptizing him myself. The highlight of everything
was his
personal testimony that he gave after his baptism. It was
awesome!
even though he said some funny things, It was truly genuine.
It’s
truly amazing to me that the lord can take a hardened heart,
soften
it, and mold it to what he wishes for us. It was nothing
short of a
miracle. It was also nothing that my companion and I did, it
was all
Heavenly Father. I saw this as a great change in heart just
like Alma
the younger, or Paul. I know that God is Preparing All of
his children
to be Baptized. This is just proof of that. In a quest that
started
out to destroy, actually turned into something special for
Scott! I’m
grateful that the lord saw fit to allow me to take part.
God the father lives, and he sent his son Jesus Christ to the
Earth to
atone for the sins of all mankind. Through Joseph Smith
Heavenly
Father and Jesus Christ restored the Fullness of the
Everlasting
Gospel to the earth. It can and will change hearts. I know
that this
experience has changed my life, and the life of Scott.
Love, Elder Crismon
Sandy, Utah
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