But I am doing good. This past week has been crazy busy. So Wednesday we had district meeting and then a few appointments that we went to. We also had to prepare for a mission leadership conference. We were supposed to discuss what we can do as the leaders of the mission to help us begin to baptize more people. You wouldn't believe what some of were saying... It was pretty dumb. They said that we need to have less rules for p day, which is not the problem. Luckily a missionary rebuked everyone and said that we were being selfish and that we need to do the work because we love Christ. Then after that we went straight to work and the cool thing is that we were able to teach 2 lessons and find 2 new investigators that we set with a baptism date. We hope that we can help them reach it as they extend there faith.
Then on Friday we stopped at the library to look some stuff up for a lesson. As we were there, this guy who we later found out is from South Africa, approached us and just praised the Mormon faith for how well we keep the commandments. He wanted to know how we do so much better than the rest of the world. It was a miracle we were there then! So we gave him our number and he texted us the next day. We met up and taught him the restoration and he loved it! It was really nice! We gave him a book of Mormon and he took our challenge to read it so seriously it was great!
Later Friday we did some service at the Mississippi Sport Hall of Fame. It is so cool to be around all of the history of Mississippi Sports!
Then Saturday night we had an appointment with a man who has some deep concerns about the Mormon faith. It was pretty funny we would shut his concern down with some scripture, but somehow he would always find a way to twist the scripture. So being good missionaries we told him the only way he can resolve this concern is if he extended his faith and asked God if the Book of Mormon is true. He told us no. So we asked him how he knew the Bible was true, and his answer shocked me. He told us that he knew the Bible was true because you can see the manuscripts that they were written on and that the it has 40 different authors that write about the same gospel. We realized that he has no faith and that we need to help him exercise his faith. It is crazy to think that the Mormon faith is about extending so much faith. Putting your hope in God and asking him for yourself if what we teach is true, and if you find out what we teach is true through the Spirit then we ask you to act upon that answer. To me that makes so much sense.
Then Sunday it rained all day. But we planned to knock doors, so we did that and no one really answered - but it showed the Lord that we are willing to work! That is it for me. I hope that you have a good week!
Love Elder Corbett
1) MLC pic
2) A hoodie from my Boi Elder Horsely:)
3) Elder Maughan and I
4) Elder Topham and I One of my best mission buddies
5) Me running up to him
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