Well just to give you all a bit of info for what's going on here, well first off, things are just flying by as I'm with Elder Memmott and its AMAZING!!!!
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| Horsing around!!! |
So for the week. On Tuesday we were pretty busy going around and seeing people. We went out and totally forgot our phone so we had to run back and get it before going to anyone else. We tried to see a man named Alex, but he wasn't around so that was a bummer. We left and went to try to find more people to teach when a guy named Andrew called us over. He was super cool and he met with missionaries before!!!! He had a lot of questions for us and it was really nice. Since Memmott is new at this he was pretty quite haha!!! We left to go and see Sandra and Emmanuel, instead of teaching just those two we ended up teaching like 7 other people!!!!! We had a good lesson and then we went to the Yeboahs. We met them and did a cool example with water, iodine, and bleach haha!!!! They loved how we were able to link it with the Atonement of Jesus Christ**. So now here is the freaky part!!!! So Emmanuel and Jennifer, two of our best investigators who are there in the Yeboah compound, said they have been baptized already into our church!!!! We've been seeing them for 2 weeks and they haven't said anything!!!! So we had to do some digging on that and see if they really are baptized. We then went to Taifa and had a lesson with Priscilla in a huge rain storm!!!! We waited for the rain to die down and then we left. We came home and yeah haha!!!!
Wednesday was just disappointment!!!!! So as we were riding to DCM it was raining and my shirt got dirty so that was a bummer!!! We then came back and went to go see Paulinna and Rita. So they have to show some progress or we'll just continue onward. We read and explained the first 3 paragraphs of the Introduction to the Book of Mormon. We left for Taifa just to get heart broken!!! We went and saw Priscilla and she told us that her father doesn't want us to come back and teach her and that he doesn't want to see the Book of Mormon around her. So we left all bummed and came back for some meetings. We then went to Christianna and Samuel after those meetings. Samuel accepted to be baptized on the 17th of September!!!! Chai it was a sweet lesson and it makes me so happy to go and see them, it's amazing how things work out sometimes!!!!
So as for Thursday, we had Elder Bigler at our apartment so yeah that was fun. We left and met up with Andrew. He was cool and had tons of questions for us. We left and met with John and Simon. Simon was busy so we taught John about Mosiah 15:1-7^^ and that helped him to learn more about the relationship with Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. He had a good understanding after and then we left to go see the Yeboahs. We went and found Jerry there!!!! Jerry left for classes and now he's back!!! So we went and taught a lot of them and caught Jerry all the way from lesson one to the middle of lesson two. We left and went to see a man named Emmanuel Fitsi and he was cool. The only problem we are seeing is that he doesn't know a lot of English, so that's a bummer. We taught him a few things and then we went and met some more guys. Victor and Kwami are cool. Kwami doesn't know a lot of English, but he is cool. We taught Victor and he seems very interested in the Plan of Salvation. Gotta love the Plan of Salvation!!! So we came back and that was cool. Bigler and Bangura switched back and that was the day.
As for Friday it was aight. We left after weekly planning and went to meet up with brother John. We went and met a few people with him and that was cool. We met a lady named Acos, Joyce and Cicillia. We left and met with Paulinna and a guy named Thomas. So John taught the whole Book of Mormon deal to them in Fante and that was cool. We left and met up with the guys to go have an FM. We had that and when we finished we started to go and Memmott threw up!!! So we had to to on exchange cuz we still had to see other people. We met with Christianna and Samuel. We taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their faith is just growing more and more!!!! We came back and Memmot was in bed trying to feel better.
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| Me Pinnock, Janda and Memmott |
As for Sunday. We had church, but 4 of our investigators came late and that was a bummer. We left and came home to make some calls and stuff. We left and met with Alex and his brother James. We had a good lesson with them and then we left to go see some other guys that we haven't seen in like 2 weeks. We sat down and we had 4 people there as well!!!! We taught them all and they seemed pretty interested by the end! We left and came back to visit the Yeboahs and that was cool. We took some photos and that was pretty entertaining for all of us. We came back and we had some fake fettuccine.
So, this morning we got up and came to play basketball at the chapel with the Kwabenya elders and that was fun. We went and got some food and then came back to play again with the Yeboahs and some other pepole. I also made a new little friend who I'll send some pictures of!!!!
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| My new little buddy!!! |
From,
Elder Stockton Smith
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What is the Atonement?
As used in the scriptures, to atone is to suffer the penalty for sins, thereby removing the effects of sin from the repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to God. Jesus Christ was the only one capable of carrying out the Atonement for all mankind. Because of His Atonement, all people will be resurrected, and those who obey His gospel will receive the gift of eternal life with God.
As descendants of Adam and Eve, all people inherit the effects of the Fall. In our fallen state, we are subject to opposition and temptation. When we give in to temptation, we are alienated from God, and if we continue in sin, we experience spiritual death, being separated from His presence. We are all subject to temporal death, which is the death of the physical body (see Alma 42:6-9; D&C 29:41-42).
The only way for us to be saved is for someone else to rescue us. We need someone who can satisfy the demands of justice—standing in our place to assume the burden of the Fall and to pay the price for our sins. Jesus Christ has always been the only one capable of making such a sacrifice.
From before the Creation of the earth, the Savior has been our only hope for “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come” (D&C 59:23).
Only He had the power to lay down His life and take it up again. From His mortal mother, Mary, He inherited the ability to die. From His immortal Father, He inherited the power to overcome death. He declared, “As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself” (John 5:26).
Only He could redeem us from our sins. God the Father gave Him this power (see Helaman 5:11). The Savior was able to receive this power and carry out the Atonement because He kept Himself free from sin: “He suffered temptations but gave no heed unto them” (D&C 20:22). Having lived a perfect, sinless life, He was free from the demands of justice. Because He had the power of redemption and because He had no debt to justice, he could pay the debt for those who repent.
Jesus's atoning sacrifice took place in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross at Calvary. In Gethsemane He submitted to the will of the Father and began to take upon Himself the sins of all people. He has revealed some of what He experienced as He paid the price for our sins:
“I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;
“But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;
“Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—
“Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men” (D&C 19:16-19; see also Luke 22:44; Mosiah 3:7).
The Savior continued to suffer for our sins when He allowed Himself to be crucified—“lifted up upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world” (1 Nephi 11:33).
On the cross, He allowed Himself to die. His body was then laid in a tomb until He was resurrected and became “the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20). Through His death and Resurrection, He overcame physical death for us all.
Jesus Christ redeems all people from the effects of the Fall. All people who have ever lived on the earth and who ever will live on the earth will be resurrected and brought back into the presence of God to be judged (see 2 Nephi 2:5-10; Helaman 14:15-17). Through the Savior's gift of mercy and redeeming grace, we will all receive the gift of immortality and live forever in glorified, resurrected bodies.
Although we are redeemed unconditionally from the universal effects of the Fall, we are accountable for our own sins. But we can be forgiven and cleansed from the stain of sin if we “apply the atoning blood of Christ” (Mosiah 4:2). We must exercise faith in Jesus Christ, repent, be baptized for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
^^Mosiah 15:1-7
1 And now Abinadi said unto them: I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.
2 And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son—
3 The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son—
4 And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.
5 And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.
6 And after all this, after working many mighty miracles among the children of men, he shall be led, yea, even as Isaiah said, as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
7 Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified, and slain, the flesh becoming subject even unto death, the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father.
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