Doorstep Invites

You alright mates?! haha

Hello everyone! I hope yalls last week has been as good as mine!! My first full week in Wolverhanpton was wonderful. I know that the work will easily progress here as long as we work hard, and working hard is exactly what I plan on doing!

I had a pretty cool tracting experience this week. I picked the street that we were going to tract for the day. The first couple doors were rejections. Then I realised that some of them had "Neighborhood Watch" stickers on them, which pretty much means that we arent allowed to knock on peoples doors there. That didn't stop me or my companion though. We continued knocking...At one door I told Elder Smith that I had never gotten invited inside on the doorstep before. It was literally like the next door we knocked on that this guy answered the door. I initiated the conversation by showing him the Book of Mormon and telling him a bit about it. I told him that this book answers questions of the soul and asked him if there was any question that he would like to ask God. He mentioned about the reason why bad things happen so frequently. Instead of answering the question on the doorstep, I aksed if we could come in and talk a bit more and..........he invited us in!!!! Ahhhh. So cool. My first time going in someones house on the doorstep haha We used 2 Nephi 2 to answer his question and later taught the Restoration. It was pretty cool! Awesome actually. But unfortunately, he isnt too intersested in going to church or anything because he suffers from depression. But nonetheless, we will still go back and try to teach him more and maybe help him the best we can with his depression.

We have taught someone a couple times this week and they came to church!! Just for sacrament meeting though because they had to go to Birmingham to visit her neice in the hospital. They should be staying the whole time of the church next sunday though. We have talked about baptism with one a couple times, but have yet to give her a specific date. She said that she wants to be committed to the church when she gets baptised because she has seen too many people go lessa ctive after their baptisms in other churches. She is expecting some kind of big answer to the BOM and Joseph Smith though so it will take some time. We tried explaining that it wont be a big answer but just warm feelings of the heart, but she still wants to wait till she has gotten the answer she wants. I know it will come in time as she continues to be taught and comes to church.

Spiritual thought for this week! It sorta comes from a combination of the lesson we had in Sunday School and my personal studies in Jesus the Christ this morning. So the Sunday School lesson was on John the Baptist and his mission to prepare the way of the Lord. John was commissed to preach repentance and baptism to the people in preparation for the ministry of the Messiah to baptise them by fire, meaning the Holy Ghost. To be baptised, we must first repent of our sins, then cometh the baptism of water by immersion. We talked about how just like Jesus, we are baptised by going fully under the water. After we are batised, we must continually immerse ourselves in the gospel by serving and partaking the Sacrament. In my studies this morning, I went over Matthew 18:1-7. Here it talks about who is greatest in the kingdom of God, little children. We must become as little children to inherit all our Father has. In the scripture I mentioned, it talks about this and how if we offend someone that is childlike, its a serious sin. I think this all just has to do with ourselves and making sure that we are continually repenting and being the best disciple we can be. My hope for all of you is that you immerse yourselves in the Atonement of Jesus Christ. That is the only way we can become perfect! Always strive to become like little children because that is what we are commanded to do. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ and know that it truly has been restored to the earth once again.

I love you all and hope that you always have a smile on yalls faces! :)

-Elder Jaquish