Hey fam,

When we teach the first lesson in our mission there is a basic lesson plan that almost everyone follows. It involves a flip chart of pictures and we explain as we flip the pictures. We don´t use repetition, but we always follow the same principles pretty much. Well the first part is God is our loving Heavenly Father and the gospel blesses families, this part doesn´t have a picture. The next part is God calls prophets in each dispensation, we use a picture of Isaiah receiving reveltaion about the birth of Christ. Then we talk about the Savior and his ministry. We use first a picture of his baptism and we explain how Christ was baptized and how we must be baptized.
This past Sunday we were teaching the first lesson to a family. They were all Catholic and when we got to the part about baptism the husband of the young couple got a little irritated. He stopped the lesson and said ´´You two can teach whatever you want to me about how Christ was baptized, but you won´t change my opinion. In my church I was baptized and it was different and don´t need to baptized this way. That is my opinion and I am not going to change.``
Usually at these point I think in my head ´´these are not the elect, or, they are not ready for this message yet.`` And I try my best to blow through the lesson so we can find people who want to hear the message. But this time was different.
I suddenly felt the great need to bear a humble testimony. I don´t remember word for word what I said. I do however, remember what I felt. I felt as though the Lord was putting those words in my mouth because they were the words that the family needed to hear. They all felt the spirit and they just stared at me when I finished, they didn´t say a word. They seemed perplexed, I sure was.
When we invited them to baptized in the end, they all accepted. I know that when we bear humble testimony, without pride or arrogance, but with compassion and love, the Lord puts those words in the hearts of others through the spirit.
We went to the home of this couple to follow up and see how the reading of the book of mormon went. THEY READ! And more importantly they felt something different. We will visit them tomorrow. They are a great young couple with a beautiful young daughter. Their names are Jailson and Aline.

I love you all and wish you the best.

-Elder Nothum