2012 June 11
Dear Mom,
This week went well. We went bowling for P-day and I saw
Elder Kepner for the first time since the CCM where we were companions! We had
our monthly Zone leader conference and we were instructed on how to better lead
the zone. On Thursday I did an interview for a lady that was preparing to be
baptized with her daughter on Saturday. I won`t share confidential info. She
has a great testimony of the restored gospel, of the Book of Mormon, Joseph
Smith and Thomas S. Monson. She understood and was willing to complete with all
the commandments... except tithing, one of the key ones. She was set on the
fact that in her situation it was impossible. I taught about the law of tithing
and left her with a commitment to read and pray in order to understand and be
able to pay a full tithe. She did not seem too happy. I thought within myself
that she was not ready and would not be able to be baptized this Saturday but
something touched my heart and whispered to me that she would be ready. So I
made an appointment to visit her and the family Saturday morning to verify this
impression. For two days I was going over in my mind the decision to pass her
interview. I read many scriptures on baptismal requirements and also doctrine
that proved that the sin of not paying a full tithe would fall on my head for
allowing, as a representative of Jesus Christ, this woman to make a covenant
with God knowing she would not complete it. I was worried. We went and visited
her on Saturday and those subtle impressions were confirmed. She had read,
pondered, talked about with her daughter and a member friend happened to visit
her and she had prayed. She is more than willing to pay her tithing always. She
and her daughter were baptized on Saturday! Many other thing also happened this
week but there`s not enough time.
Transfers have arrived! My companion goes home to Bolivia
tomorrow and my new companion will be Elder Chavez from Costa Rica. Tell you
more next week. The gospel is so true and the may the Holy Spirit guide.
Love,
Elder Dustin Divis
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