Adam Walker:

Jan 19, 2010
Everything is working out real well here. This last week has been pretty crazy. We had a little show down at church this last week. The Branch President was teaching in Sunday School that little children who die before the age of accountability have to accept the gospel in the spirit world and they are not automatically saved into the celestial kingdom. I corrected him and made the point clear that they are saved into the Celestial Kingdom, I showed him a few scriptures, 1 in Moroni 8 saying that it is an solemn mockery to baptize a child. and also in D&C 136 where it says straight up that Little Children who die before the age of accountability are saved in the Celestial Kingdom. The Branch President is a very arrogant man and very prideful. and he didn't like to be shown wrong and he wouldn't accept that he was wrong. Now he doesn't like me to well and 3/4 of the branch are related to him so now they don't like me to well either because I told them something that was true but against what their grandpa or dad said. Its a mess. Some of these small branches are interesting. Its kind of like their own little break off sometimes. Its funny in some cases but when it comes down to teaching correct principles, that's not something to mess with. Luckily there were some members of the High council there as well and they were speaking in sacrament, and one of them spoke exactly on that point, teaching correct principles from the scriptures and other church materials, and not from your own opinion. that made the branch president even more embarrassed and he still just wont say sorry haha. its a mess, something so small, yet so big. Just accept that your wrong and move on with life. The High Councilors wife told me that that was needed to be done, she wanted to say something but didn't know how to put it into words. other people who are not related to him were glad I cleared it up as well, but anyone that has the last name Mann, they are all mad at me now, thank goodness the people who are not related to him are the ones that feed us so that wont hurt us. :)

Yesterday we had a great experience, right after I hung up from talking to mom on the phone in fact; We had a member that was preparing dinner at the church for a family that we are teaching. They have 8 in their family and so we had a ton of food ready and prepared. Well about and hour before dinner we get a call, "we are not going to be able to make it." The member that had slaved all day for this was just depressed, and actually a little angry at the same time. Because I guess this happened the last time that he had prepared dinner for a family that the missionaries were teaching. So here we are, 4 people with a huge crock pot of chili, enough to feed probably 15 people, and they all could probably have seconds. What to do? We call every member that we have numbers to to see if they wanted a free dinner. No one was able to come because they were all doing other things or had already had dinner. So that failed and nothing was going right, the member that had prepared it was even a little more disappointed at this point and I could see that he was just depressed. This whole time I am playing the piano on and off while my companion is calling people and praying in my mind, "please just make something good happen for this man." Soon after, his wife yelled from upstairs where the kitchen is in this church and said, "Tom...Tom, someone is at the door out side. So he goes and opens the door and the first thing he asks him, do you want some chili?! haha the guy was just like sure, why not I just was looking for some water. He needed like 5 gallons or something. He had just moved into a home right across from the church and the water had not been turned on yet. So we gave him access to the water at the church and told him to use as much as he needed. Then when he had got the water he said he would go try to get someone else to come to because someone had moved with him. He brought over a lady named Rhonda, She is pretty much a full time house sitter for this one mans mother. The guy who needed the water ended up getting a call into work for something so he couldn't stay but Rhonda stayed and had a big bowl of chili with corn bread. The members invited her to church, and then we asked her if it would be alright if we came over and taught her about our church. She said she would love that! In the end the members walked her back to her house and on the way out they stopped at the table in the church with church materials and introduced the book of Mormon to her. She said she would love to read it.

Our night turned out to be a success, it was a great night. A prayer answered and some members able to see some success come from their hard work and a great opportunity to share the gospel with someone new. God answers prayers. This was just yet another one of those times. He love us all, He is there.

Hope you all travel safely and everything goes well.
I love you all, always remember to pray.
Have a great week, talk to you next week

-Elder Walker