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| New missionary on the rock |
Dear Family,
What a great week! It was an eventful one and hectic, but it was still
a great week and this next one will be even better. Thank you for your
letters and for your prayers. It's great that so many of you are doing
your own missionary work. I think when we make sacrifices for the
gospel is when we are more inclined to share it with others. For the
parents, sending two sons on missions is a huge sacrifice, which is
why you're such great missionaries.
I've heard from a few people and witnessed here, but people leaving
the church over things they've read on the internet is the most
ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. There is always answers to
gospel questions we have if we just simple ask, seek, and knock.
Through sincere study and prayer, the mysteries of God are discovered.
Lately I have discovered the answer to one of my questions.
I was reading in the old testament the creation account. The very
first commandment given to man is to "multiply and replenish the
earth." Basically to have families. Looking at the footnotes for this
verse I encountered that the word "replenish" is actually not the
right word. Replenish as we currently understand it means to re-fill
or to fill again. This didn't make sense because the earth hadn't
already been filled with humans, it needed to be filled. I thought
well that makes sense, the bible has many errors in translation
because of the apostasy. I thought that the Pearl of Great Price would
shed some light on the verse. In the Pearl of Great Price I noticed
that replenish was too used. I thought that this couldn't be right. If
Joseph Smith really was a prophet wouldn't the Lord inspire him to
change 'replenish' to 'fill?' I let the matter go for a few days, but
it really bothered me. Even the institute manual didn't give a
satisfactory answer. It wasn't until I was reading through History of
the Church that I found a lead to the answer. Joseph Smith used the
1828 edition of the Webster's dictionary when he was translating the
Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price. This is a tool to
understanding the meanings of words in modern scripture. How does the
1828 Webster's dictionary define the word 'replenish?'
http://webstersdictionary1828.
is always an answer to those that diligently seek. Joseph Smith was a
prophet of God. I know that he is. Every time I read the Book of
Mormon my testimony of the restoration grows stronger. I testify that
there are answers to honest questions.
This week we were blessed to find 4 new investigators. Both were two
old Newfie pentecostal couples. They're a dime a dozen around here.
The first was Abe and Winnie. We met Abe street contacting a few weeks
ago while he was sitting on a park bench. He is from the bay so his
accent is really thick, but we managed to get his information and give
him a pass-along card. We tried following up the past few weeks but we
could never catch them at home. Finally we dropped by just before
taking our supper break and they let us right in. We taught the
restoration and they are committed to reading the Book of Mormon.
The next two came as a surprise while we were knocking. Elder Hardesty
and I like to "drag-net knock." Meaning we will identify those that
said to come back on a street and then knock the houses around them.
It's good because it always results in finding people to teach. We
were knocking around an old potential investigator who wasn't home and
we knocked on the door of Oswald and Lorraine. They were just about to
go to the Pentecostal tabernacle for church when we knocked on their
door. We didn't say much to convince them to learn more, it was mostly
just bearing testimony that we wouldn't go talking to strangers on a
cold night if what we didn't preach wasn't true. They let us right in
and we taught them the restoration and gave them a Book of Mormon.
They had a lot of questions about the Bible so the Book of Mormon came
in handy.
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| Our science project jk. Actually a man gave us canned moose to snack on. I love Newfoundland |
I really really really need you all to pray for Darren. He is
struggling to quit smoking and his baptism is this Saturday. If he
doesn't stay clean this week then we'll have to set a new date.
Addictions are so hard to overcome. He believes in the church and
wants to get baptized, but it can't happen if he's still breaking the
word of wisdom. It's crunch time so I'm pretty stressed out about him,
but through prayer and Christ all things are possible. The next task
will be to get him the aaronic priesthood because he wants to baptize
his two children, Erica and Buddy.
Donna is doing better than ever. She is so excited to get baptized and
then go out teaching with us. We finished teaching laws and ordinances
and she wants to go to the temple so she can get baptized for her
grandpa. She asked me to baptize her. I thought it was the biggest
tender mercy in the world because it reminded me of Grandma McGuire
who shares the same first name. Getting these two baptismal candidates
to the temple is going to be a struggle because we live so far away
from Halifax. We'll get there. Stay tuned for pictures from the
baptism!!!!
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!
Love,
Elder McGuire
Question of the week: How many of the 12 apostles went to Harvard?
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| I don't know if I mentioned the Thamas's. They are a new couple from Ontario that just moved in to Gander (About an hour away from Grand Falls) and they gave us like all of their church books. Great way to make missionaries happy : |
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