I'm sure these blog posts must start to repeat at some point - I do
the same thing every day. Sometimes I sit down to write and I have absolutely no
idea what to say for that week - the same things happen every week! So here is
the news for this week;
Sister Aoki and I taught an investigator yesterday. It was my first time
teaching this investigator, but Sister Aoki had taught her before. Her name is
Tomoko, and we also teach her son, Kouki. Yesterday we taught the gospel of
Jesus Christ, and how we can follow him through faith, repentance, baptism,
receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. It was my first
time teaching this lesson to someone so I was pretty nervous, but my companion
let me (attempt to) explain faith, baptism, and enduring to the end. She
understood faith really well already, so I just added to her knowledge saying
that when we have faith we rely on God and we pray to Him. Then Sister Aoki
talked about repentance and how through the process we can correct mistakes we
have made and have a fresh start. Then, I explained baptism, and how when we
are baptized we take upon ourselves Christ's name and we follow him. Sister Aoki
talked about the special gift of the Holy Ghost, and I concluded with enduring
to the end, always using faith, repenting, remembering our baptism, and striving
to keep the Holy Ghost with us. When we finished all of the other steps, we went
back and asked if there were any she didn't really understand. She said baptism
was a little confusing, so we went back and explained it a little more, and even
asked the member who had come with us to share her experience. We asked her if
that was something she would want, to receive baptism, and.....she said
yes!!
She and her son will be (aiming to be) baptized on the 15th of June.
I just remember thinking of that song from the Princess and the Frog, when
Ray, the firefly says "we know where you're going and we're going with you,
taking you all the way!". I remember he was helping Tiana navigate through the
swamps of New Orleans, but it reminded me of our lesson. When she said yes to
baptism, Tomoko said that she wants to but she doesn't know how. I (smiled so
big and) told her that we will always be here to help her. We know where she's
going, and we're actually going the same way, we're following Jesus Christ.
We'll take her all the way!
