Madison's Mission Memos: Painting, Rainbows, Mothers Day, Spiders

This was an amazing week. We taught someone named José and he understood so much of the restoration. He said that he has always felt like there should be only one church that has all the truth since Jesus Christ set up one church during his life according to the bible. He has been searching for his whole life but never felt like he was going to find it so he has been attending a church that is close to him because it was easy. While we taught about the apostasy he stopped us and asked if we were still in the apostasy. It is a wonderful thing to tell someone that we are not in this state of apostasy anymore. We have the truth on the earth today. There is the authority and ordinances on the earth. We have prophets. We have apostles. And Jesus Christ Lives. He lives and directs his church. After teaching him this he was so excited to read the book of Mormon and find out for himself. We can all find out for ourselves that this message is true. And when we have found out we can find out again and again. The promise in Moroni 10:3-5 is not a one and done. We can read, ask, receive that answer and do it again. Through the spirit we can know the truth of all things.

Another update on our recent covert José Escalante! He is the one that shredded up the Anti-church literature the week before his baptism. He is doing well and I have never seen him so happy. Since we are in a trio now I get to help with the recent convert lessons! We painted his house and we ran into him today at Walmart and he bought us subway! He is amazing and is a changed man with the gospel in his life. This week he blessed the sacrament for the first time! While we were helping him paint he sung us Spanish songs for about an hour on a large microphone. He is doing incredibly well and is already half way through the book of Mormon. The Gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives. It brings joy and it is amazing to see!