A lot has happend...

Be careful what you wish for!! A couple of days after my last post, the new missionaries showed up on my doorstep to meet me. My husband answered the door, and well, I can't say he was terribly pleased. The next day, they brought brownies. Over the next week, they left me scripture cards on three different occassions, and brought cookies. I was pretty shocked, but I don't feel ignored anymore.

The scriptures were
Matthew 11:28-30
"28 ¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

D&C 6:22-24
"22 Verily, verily, I say unto you, if you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things.

23 Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?

24 And now, behold, you have received a witness; for if I have told you things which no man knoweth have you not received a witness?

Alma 32:21
"21 And now as I said concerning faith—faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.

They left the Matthew card the day I was reading Matthew (I've decided to read the New Testament now that I finished the Book of Mormon). The D&C passage REALLY spoke to me, and was quite powerful. Alma 32 is always a good one for me.

I missed the stake conference because Leah was really sick. I really wanted to go to that after Vanessa told me about it. I'm looking forward to chuch tomorrow, it's the ward conference. I'm not sure what that entails, but I'm sure the speakers will be good... they usually are.

I think I will be baptized by the end of the month. It just seems like the right thing to do.

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I had a question that I posed to my friend, Kim. She's pretty much the only objective sounding board I have. I wondered if satan could create something that did lots of good things but in the end led people away from Christ. The LDS church says that satan can't do anything that is good, he can only do evil. I wasn't really convinced until I read the following in Matthew 7.
"15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them"