January 20, 2011 Thursday
Yesterday morning and this morning both found us at Yingping’s house. Yesterday we talked a lot about the Book of Mormon. Today she had more questions about it. Something led us to read in 3 Nephi 11 about Christ’s visit to the people. Orson explained that of course Christ would do the most important things first. After allowing each person to witness that He truly is the Christ, he called 12 men and gave them authority to baptize and then he taught them how to baptize. We began to talk about baptism and she began to make statements like, “So when I believe this, I will get baptized, but what if I have bad thoughts after I’m baptized?” That led to a discussion of the covenant of baptism and the sacrament. She’s beginning to understand that this could be life changing. She still isn’t sure, though, that she can’t just pick and choose the things she likes and discard the rest. We are praying she’ll have a spiritual conversion soon.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the temple with all the missionaries in the zone. It was good. There were 3 rows of women in the session and all the rest were men/elders.
This afternoon we drove out to the Thornlie area. Pretty much it is directly east of the area we worked in when we were in the Jandakot Ward. We drove past the flat. It looks like an entire house to us. We hope to see it tomorrow after district meeting. Right now the zone leaders are also acting as the district leaders here in the Como district because neither of the elders here have the maturity and work ethic to be district leaders. It’s really sad when elders don’t try their hardest. But the area looks good. We did a little tracting in the Southern River suburb. We had a great discussion with a fellow from Alberta, Canada. He knew some of the basics about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, but he just didn’t care to find out whether what we were talking about is true.
Yeah Yingping!
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