August 8th - Mosaic Law

Hello!

Thank you again for all the updates from home. I always enjoy reading about you guys and seeing your pics. But then again I hate it cause I'm almost done and the mission is the best thing ever :)

We had an awesome past week that started with MLC. We had the mosaic law done away with and now are living the higher law. The whole mission is pumped! One of the things I liked that President said was that we need to have "consecrated obedience". He's a great speaker and very inspiring. We also had 2 of our investigators get baptized and confirmed and did some baptismal interviews. Our 2 baptisms were so excited and happy that night as they bore powerful and touching testimonies of their conversion. One of our recent converts is an awesome missionary. When approached by missionaries of another christian religion he was able to answer their questions and share about the restoration of the gospel and of the Priesthood. It was awesome as he was telling it. This week was also kinda hard because of investigators telling us that they would for sure be coming to church but nothing happened. 

We also had a wonderful miracle occur as we unexpectedly received a phone call from our AP telling us about contention among one companionship in our zone. We went in there and you knew something had gone wrong. You could feel it. One of the elder's was packed and just waiting to get out. Long story short a miracle of the atonement was witnessed as we labored and followed the spirit in helping these 2 elders. It took about three hours but with the help of the holy ghost, the spirit of love and unity was restored. It is probably one of the greatest miracles I've seen in my mission. We went in and had no idea how to help these elders but we trusted in the spirit and then went and did as the Lord would do had he been there. We left feeling accomplished and with gratitude in our hearts that the Lord attended us that day.

I truly know that the Lord is a God of mirales and delegates his power and authority to men on earth to act in His holy name. I know that the atonement is very real and is available to all.

Love,

Elder Brown