Dear Family & Friends,
This week has been great! I am trying to respond to all the
letters and things ya’ll have sent me.
I will just send one experience I had this week.
For a while now, we have been teaching a man—the “loin cloth
man”—on his front porch. This last Friday we read the Introduction of the Book of Mormon including the Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith with him. Here is an excerpt from what we shared:
“He called me by name,
and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to
me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my
name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindred, and
tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.
“He said there was
a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former
inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. He
also said that the fullness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as
delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants.”
As we were reading I felt impressed to read Revelations 14:6–7.
"And I
saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear
God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters."
When I compared these two passages, it was a witness to me
that the Book of Mormon really is true and that the Angel Moroni was that angel
that declared the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It was amazing—although I had not known what to say before
hand, with the help of the spirit, I was able to share my thoughts as I was
realizing them myself.
The eyes of the man we were teaching lit up as he understood
the gravity of what I was testifying. The Bible really does foretell of the
coming of the Book of Mormon! The last living, John the Revelator, saw it
and wrote about it as a revelation that would come in the last days. This is a
revelation and prophecy fulfilled.
Please, I challenge all of you to read it for yourselves:
I know that this is The Gospel of Jesus Christ and that it has
been restored in its entirety for all of us living in these great and last days
before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. I know it! I know that Joseph Smith
was and is a prophet of God called on the earth to restore Christ’s original
church and "one faith." The evidence of this is found in the Book of
Mormon.
I am so glad to be a missionary and to share these glad
tidings of great joy! I say this as a representative of Jesus Christ. In His holy
name, amen.
Love,
Elder Gomm
Pre-missionaries: write me ASAP
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