Jacob got baptized!
This is how the week went. Monday p-day, Tuesday zone conference, and Wednesday I was asked to move bikes around the zone cause I am the only one with a bike rack. Thursday, we had a lesson with Jacob started at 0830 -- we only were going to meet till 9 30 but we didn't finish until 1230 -- the end result was -- Jacob decided to be baptized -- that Saturday. Friday get the time for the baptism and plan the whole thing, Saturday baptism and clean up, Sunday church. .
Our four hour lesson started by reading in Jacob (a book in the Book of Mormon - if you haven't read it -- you should). In verse 7 it says, "...come unto Christ" -- so we with Jacob studied what does it mean to "come unto Christ" and a long time later he decided to be baptized. His confirmation of this being what he needed to do -- kindof came around in an interesting way -- when we were trying to get him to commit to a baptism date -- we went, with Jacob, to the chapel and prayed, then left him there with my copy of the Bible and the Book of Mormon. He came back and told us the 19th which was is 2 days! The way he figured the date out was first his favorite scripture in the Bible is Mark 9:23 - "...everything is possible..." and he was in the Book of Mormon abbreviation page and Mark is straight across from 2 Nephi so he went there to 2 Nephi 9:23 and it said "...repent and be baptized...". so that is was he said confirmed that he needed to be baptized and that this was the right thing to do. Then he was trying to find a verse in the book of Alma and came across Alma 5:26, and then Alma 7:17-19 -- so he did the flip thing on the abbreviation page and Alma lines up with Galatians so he look for the page that had a 19 on it because of Alma 7:19 and came across Galatians 4:19 "...be born again with the name of Christ..." and April 19th was the first time he met with the missionaries. It was a great day. I am so happy that I was able to be with him in this process since I got to this area on April 24
So it was a fun experience a lot of heart to heart talking and resolving concerns till he had none left and I ask what have you against being baptized cause I read the scripture a little while ago in the lesson. I was so much more happy, exited, and proud when he said he was going to be baptized then I was when I baptized him. When we left hi in the chapel to pray i went out side cause a had to move around i was so happy
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