"I am called of God. My authority is above that of the Kings of the Earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him, to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He were personally ministering unto the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, my acts are His acts, my words are His words, my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done, to say what He wants said, to be a living, modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of this Great and Marvelous Latter-Day work. How great is my calling!"
-Bruce R. McConkie

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

This week we had a few interesting experiences. One day we were sitting in the living room with two of our investigators and someone knocked on their door. From where I was sitting I could only see an older man with a clipboard. At first I thought it was someone doing a census thing or something. But then he introduced himself as a member from the Saint Anthony Catholic church. "Here it comes," I thought. He was American and was talking to the daughter because she was born and raised in the United States and also was the one that answered the door. He explained that they were going around inviting people to the Easter services that they were going to be having. He asked her if they go the Saint Anthony church and she replied by saying that they used to. He said, "Used to...? And why don't you anymore?" She told them that they go to a different church now and kind of glanced over at us. Then I heard a woman's voice ask in spanish, "What is the name of the church?" At that point Rosa, our investigator, turned to me because she couldn't remember the name of the church so I replied for her. Only then did I see the woman who had asked the question and even before she started speaking I could feel the spirit leave as she was sending every feeling of hatred she possessed right at us. She started telling us that the Catholic church is the only true church because Christ made it and that everyone else is wrong. Then she tried to soften her attack by saying that it was good that we believe in God. After that she repeated that the only true church is the Catholic church. I wanted to reply to her, but the fact that the spirit wasn't even close to being in the room held me back from saying anything. She left by saying "God bless you" and I said, "Thank you, the same to you." When they left we took the opportunity to point out the difference of how it felt when we went to see the Joseph Smith movie at the visitors' center and how it felt just then when they were telling us those things. They said that they did feel the difference. It is a little sad to me that Satan can have so much control over the hearts of men and that he takes something wrong and disguises it to make it look right. He's very good at it, but you can't deny the confirmation of the spirit that you feel when you learn about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. I was grateful that they came while we were there so that we had such a wonderful opportunity with our investigators to teach them about the spirit. I'm so grateful that we know what we know and that we have the gift of the spirit so that the Lord can give us such knowledge. It's so amazing!

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