We have been experiencing a lot of Satanic opposition it feels like, but we know that is a good thing because it means we are super close to having great success."

November 21th, 2011

 

Dear Family and Friends,

 

This was a really interesting week.

 

We had a really good Zone Conference on inviting people to act with urgency. They did a role play and showed us examples of investigators who had a baptismal date and them wanting to put it off because they feel that they aren't ready. They showed us that if the person has the desire to be baptized, to follow Jesus Christ, and do their best, then they don't need to worry. They need God's help and blessings that they can receive as they receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. These people really need the peace that comes from that and they shouldn't try to perfect their lives before they make that promise with God. They are going toward a goal that they don't have the ability to reach. They just need to be living a certain level, and once they meet those qualifications for baptism, they will become perfect through years of study, prayer, church attendence, and partaking of the sacrament after having been baptized and received the gift of the Holy Ghost.

 

We realized that too often we justify people delaying change and we don't emphasize people excercising their faith enough. So we made a list of all the people that we need to boldy invite to baptism. We realized that half of them could potentially be baptized this week. The people that had reached that level of being almost ready were:

 

Roodschild, George, Carlo, Vanessa, Leroni, Rosemonde, Robert, Nancy.

 

We decided to focus solely on them for the remainder of the week. We experienced so much opposition.

 

The first problem is that we went to Carlo's house and he told us that his boss put him working on Sundays again because he needs extra people for the holiday season. He will be working on Sundays until January 1st, then he will have all Sundays after that off again. Carlo was very upset about that. Elder Terry and I talked about it and we decided that he is more than enough ready and since we know that he has an end to him working on Sundays, we should baptize and confirm him during the week so that he can have the strength that will come from the Gift of the Holy Ghost. The problem is that he heard from several people in the baptist church that Satan doesn't have control over anything, so they said not to worry because God stopped him because he must not have been ready. We were so frustrated because he isn't going to push against it. Carlo told us that Brother Laurent (a Haitian member of the church) told him the same thing, but then we asked Brother Laurent, and he told us that wasn't true. So Carlo was lying to us and saying that a member of this church told him that so he could justify what they told him in the baptist church. We were so upset about that.

 

Then we passed by leroni, Rosemonde, and Robert multiple times a day but they were never home. Also we did the same with Roodschild and luckily we have been able to talk to him, but it has been difficult. Roodschild knows that this church is true. He prayed if he should get baptized in this church and he described it as lightning hitting him in his heart and his head and having a knowledge just come to him. He is 13, so that is really awesome. But then he prayed about whether or not he should be baptized in another church, he was outside and the wind started to pick up and it started him. He heard a voice that told him, "Yes...Yes..." When Roodschild immitated the voice, it sounded very devilish and cunning. It was weird. We realized he was getting false revelation so we had him pray about this church again and he had an awesome experience and afterwards he said, "okay, I am getting baptized in this church." Getting to his house before that experience was really hard. We passed by his house several times earlier in the day and he wasn't there. Then I locked the keys in the car and we were delayed for about 2 hours or so. We have been experiencing a lot of Satanic opposition it feels like, but we know that is a good thing because it means we are super close to having great success

 

We have a lot of good things about to happen in the area. Keep praying for us.

 

Love,

 

Elder Seamons

 

ps.

 

Thank you so much Laurie for the Thanksgiving dinner food. I love you so much! Thank you so much for all of your support!