2/11

My purpose in serving a mission and being up here serving the people of Alaska has begun to sink in. 

We recite every morning, "Our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ through Faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End." 

I love this statement because we are not here to convert people to our church but to help and invite others to come closer to our savior Jesus Christ. 

An example of this, this week is we were visiting an old Lutheran guy in his small, smoke filled shack. His name is William and he believed that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are the same person. We asked him if we could show him that in the Bible it explains they are separate. He said sure. 

 I flipped to Matthew 3:13- 17.

But before we read it we explained the Holy Ghost testifies of the Father and of truth. And we prayed for the Holy Ghost which is also called the Spirit of God to be with us. And read:

13 ¶ Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Elder Lott's response was to invite him to pray about it and ask our Father in Heaven of these things are true. 

I bore testimony that the Holy Ghost was with us for I felt the love of our Heavenly Father fill the room and my body. William then replied with a well of course I believe they are separate people. We invited him to church, so he can learn more truth through the Holy Ghost. Very cool experience.

We also taught The Restoration of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ to Erlinda Nikamoto. There was a catch tho, we didn't teach and she speaks very little English. She is from the Philippines and speaks Tagalog. So we have her a Book of Mormon in Tagalog and we video called an Elder down in Juneau who is from the Philippines who was able to help and invite her to come to a knowledge of a part of the Fullness of the Gospel.

 It was so cool to read revelation given to Joseph Smith that he recorded when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was just in a very small part of Kirkland, Ohio in 1833.

D&C 90:11

For it shall come to pass in that day, that every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power, by the administration of the Comforter, shed forth upon them for the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Elder Lott and I gave each other haircuts!! And we didn't do too bad!