Hej cześć friends and family! This week I want to share an awesome teaching experience:

We just started teaching a great guy who heard about the missionaries, but didn’t take action until much later.  Two years ago, he met the missionaries and played frisbee with them one day, and then just two weeks ago he remembered that the missionaries also teach a free English class.  He showed up for the first-time last week and then participated in our religious discussion afterwards.  During our discussion, he accepted a copy of the Księga Mormona and scheduled to meet with us the following week.   Our first lesson with him was this last week and he was very prepared with some great questions likes: “Why do you believe in God?  Why do you believe in Jesus Christ?  Why are you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Why not another Church?”  

I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have that YES, there is a God—we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and knows us individually by name. YES, Jesus Christ is the Savior!  And YES, the same Church that Jesus Christ established when He was on the earth has been restored and is on the earth again today!  I don’t just know these things because they have been written in the scriptures or they have been spoken of in Church. I know these things because I have searched for the answers, and I have felt the confirmation that these things are true!  In The Book of Mormon from Alma Chapter 32, we can read about an ancient American prophet Alma who compares faith to a seed:

“Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.”

and then in verse 33 he explains:

“And now, behold, because ye have tried the experiment, and planted the seed, and it swelleth and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow, ye must needs know that the seed is good.”

If we want to find answers to the questions our new friend had, whether the Gospel is true, first we need to have the desire to know. We have to really want it and be willing to work for our answer! And then, as we strive to listen to the word of God, to read the scriptures, to pray, and to ponder, we will receive our answer.  I know this is true because I have taken Alma’s experiment myself!  And I have received a personal witness that these things are true. The Spirit was so strong as we testified to this man that we CAN receive answers to our hard questions—all it takes is us having the desire and the willingness to try.

I love this gospel, and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to share this life-changing message. I love you all! Bardzo was kocham! I hope you have a wonderful week! 🙂

z miłością,

Siostra Baldwin

Letters/packages:

Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa świętych w Dniach Ostatnich
ul. Wiernicza 135
02-952 Warszawa Poland  

pics:

1 & 2. The daily run!

3. The story our intermediate english class wrote together! 🙂 W