The highlight of
the week was last night. Mara, the lady that is getting baptized this
week, was found by my MTC companion, Elder Palmer, almost a year and a
half ago. Last night, Elder Palmer and his companion had the unique
chance to work with us in our area.I went with Elder Palmer to see her
and she got really excited to see him. It was awesome just to work with
Elder Palmer again, after almost 2 years of hardly seeing each other.
He´s grown a lot, but we were just flowing with the spirit as we visited
with Mara and getting her excited for her baptism. :)
Dear Reader, Today I simply want to share a story that has strengthened my testimony of the Book of Mormon over the years. Professor Felix Mynhardt was fluent in many languages, including English, Afrikaans, Hebrew and Egyptian, as well as many others. He was employed as a language professor when he had been praying that the Lord would give him some divinely important task that would justify his having this gift of language from God. In 1970 he visited with a group of Mormon leaders, who sought to commission him to translate the Book of Mormon from English into Afrikaans. He said that he knew of the Book of Mormon from his religions studies, and his initial reaction was that he did not want to be involved in translating it. However, that evening, as he prayed upon his knees, as was his habit, he said the Spirit of the Lord convinced him. The message was something on the order of, "You asked me for a great, divinely inspired task of translation, I sent it to you in the form o...
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