How truly grateful I am for you.
I had the wonderful opportunity of conducting an interview this week for a sister ready to be baptized. We walked into her home and I could feel that the spirit was there and that she had prepared herself. When we saw her she was quietly sitting in a corner of here home reading her Book of Mormon. I asked if she thought she was ready to start the interview. She quietly said i'm nervous but I know this is true now is the time. I preceded with the interview and I could feel that she was prepared. She was so excited that she was going to be able to have an eternal family. Every answer she gave in some way related back to her living with her husband forever. She testified of it over and over and over again that the Plan of Salvation was real. I asked her how her reading of The Book of Mormon was going and she started of my saying I have a testimony of it. She told me that at first she started to read it with the purpose of keeping her commitment with the missionaries. She said that she understood nothing that she was reading. She went back to the missionaries and said that she was getting discouraged about reading. They asked her is she was praying before she read and how she was reading. She told them that she had forgotten to pray and that she was reading it to just keep her part of the commitment. That told her to start reading it for herself and to gain her own testimony of it, not just to please the missionaries. She said that after they left her house she offered a pray and then began to read. She told me that it all unfolded and everything was and an answer in some way to one of the questions she had in her life. She again testified of it and said I am ready to put all the things i've learned into action by becoming a member of this true church.
Its through The Book of Mormon that we come to find peace in our lives and direction in this journey on earth. This is written of r our day because we have a loving Heavenly Father want us to be happy. Jesus Christ atoned for us that we may make the necessary changes in our livers to say on the "Happy Path" of this journey. I love each of you.
Elder O'Neil
