{6.27.16} Legendary Week

This week was the best!! I'll let the pictures do the talking:

The House Family, Tony and Karen

So yeah, everyone sealed the deal this weekend! It's been great. Tony and Karen are SO awesome. They called us several times before the baptism, to make sure they weren't forgetting something & that there wasn't anything else they needed to do. Tony has already received the Aaronic Priesthood, and they're going to the temple this Thursday.

Tina is also great. She's really just a homie, but we just got to help her get baptized too. She's always crackin jokes, and she's got a good relationship with the branch President (in the picture) so he'll put her to work in no time with a calling or assignment of some type. Our branch is really small, so Recent Converts get to exercise their testimonies and grow quickly.

Tina and her fam

I love serving in the Sunrise Branch. It's so small, sometimes I have to clench my fist and bite lip at some of the things that happen, but it's one of the coolest experiences to see people grow so quickly, to be so unified, and to give so much, all in the name of progressing the work of the Lord. Many of them very new in the Gospel, and the Church. It's also cool the few life long members in the branch growing as they learn to serve, understand, and help all these new members of the Church. Once again, the church must be true!

Interesting side thought: it's interesting how much hate their is in the world right now. Not just against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, put Christians/religion/mankind in general. For example, take these guys:

Those are Hebrew Israelites. The sometimes preach on street corners, and they love to "bible bash" with Elders and Sisters. Their religion in a nut shell: The real House of Israel is all black bible. Jesus is black, and white people are edomites (descendants of essau) and they're all damned. Because they're white. Nevermind that "faith in christ, repentance, baptism" stuff..

In contrast, you have this guy:

He's a member up in Boynton Beach, and this is his "testimony card" that he gives to people. It's his mormon.org profilfe, contact info, and email. He was a member of the baptist for 20 years, and served as a missionary.... specifcally to target members of the mormon church, missionaries, and those listening to the missionaries. If anyone knows the history of the LDS church, it's this guy. He would follow the missionaries in San Diego, preach outside of the Manti Pageants and other such events, and vowed he would never ever join the "church of the devil" the mormon church. As he would drive to the manti pageant its summer, he'd stop in visit his Aunt in St George, and try and persuade her the errors of his ways. She'd always tell him, "someday, you will make a great member of the church." and then she'd ask him to read the book of mormon, and pray about it. This went on for YEARS, vowing he'd never do it. Until one day he did. Long story short, he got his answer, from the holy ghost, and he couldn't deny it. He knew it was true. That's the short version, if you want to knwo more you can talk to him, his info is right there!!

The moral of the story: Trust in God, not man. I would not be serving a mission if I hadn't received an answer that the message I was preaching is true. God's church is on the earth. He is gathering together his children, in the unity of faith and body of christ Paul described in Ephesians chapters 1,2, and 4. The Apostasy the bible prophesy's of has ended. We are no longer "children tossed to and fro in the winds of every doctrine." God is the source of all knowledge, and if ye lack any wisdom, why not ask of God?

Elder Juanes

Elder Jace Johns

5310 NW 14th Pl

Lauderhill, FL 33313