Elder Zackary Snell: #FillTheFont

DEC 1st 2014

This week was indeed a STELLAR week! After three weeks of meeting with Harrison, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Here is his story.

Harrison had been coming to church for a couple months with a member friend. Our Bishopric had just changed and Bishop Kerby noticed that he hadn't taken the missionary lessons, so he took the liberty of inviting him over to the church one evening so he could meet the missionaries and take the first lesson from us. We met him and right from the start, we knew he was prepared! Harrison loved Priest quorum, so we also had some of the priests come to the lesson as well. He loved the message of the Restoration and wanted to meet again. He scheduled the appointment for next week. We asked to have it at his friends house who he had been coming to church with and he agreed. From there, we met with him twice a week in the Iverson's home. The spirit was more present than it was in the church. He committed to baptism on the 29th of November (three weeks after we began teaching him)! He made it to every lesson and between each lesson, we had contact with him each day through us and other member fellowshipers reminding him to read and pray. There is power in unity with the members! Harrison was so excited when he was finally baptized and confirmed.

I wish you could have been there to see his face. He had the opportunity to bear his testimony after he was baptized and he was beaming! He was speachless. The only phrase he could use at the time was, "This is the happiest day of my life so far!" There is no other joy that we can receive than helping another brother or sister find their way back to our Heavenly Father. I absolutely love being a missionary! I gave Harrison a tie of mine with my signature on the back. It said, "Harrison! Stay Strong, My Friend!" He wore it to church for when he was confirmed. He is already planning on getting his Patriarchal blessing and doing Baptisms for the Dead. If he prepares his own names to do, we get to go with him!!! We will be helping him with that, for sure.

Anyways, Thanksgiving was on Thursday! We went over to the Larson's home and they made a delicious dinner for us and a nonmember couple from Chile. We had a great discussion with them. Elder Rickertsen and I played an epic game of Jenga. I lost.... What made this game really hard was the fact that the table was uneven and so we had to build accordingly.

That's a wrap! Sister Iverson took all the pictures for us, so I will have her email them to my Mom and she can post them or something. Thanks for reading! Tootaloo!

~ Elder Zac Snell :)