My Investigator

I have a friend from school who is investigating the church. Truthfully, when I invited him the first time, I had no intention of converting him.

I will provide a little back-round for my friend. His name is Will. He is seventeen and owns a really ugly white truck with a bumper being held to it by a bungee cord. He goes to Pierce City and is in my grade. He has blond hair and bluish green eyes. He sells soda in the hallways at school and plays lots of mindless video games.

So, he's been to the regular meetings at church for a few Sundays in a row and goes to mutual often. We have even had the missionaries over for F.H.E. to give him discussions a couple of times.

This last discussion was the most interesting one.
It had been a semi-regular day. (all except for the fact that, that was the day that I had gotten sick.) Will and the missionaries showed up and we ate dinner. (Which was very good!)

Then, we proceeded to the livingroom. The missionaries sang us a primary song and then started with their lesson. It was mostly about putting trust in the Lord. The activity was tying a tie around Will's eyes and telling him to fall backward. He had to trust that Elder Horch would be there to catch him.

After a while of reading some scriptures and talking about trust, Elder Shaw told Will that they had a date for Will to be baptized. The room went quiet with shock. At least I was in shock. I looked and him and he seemed also to be in shock.

Elder Shaw and Horch said that they want him to work towards this baptism date (December seventh) and to do better and to read and to pray about it.

Shocked as I was, I tried to be in good spirit about it. It is not a bad thing at all. It is a really exciting thing, but I was worried about what Will thought.

The next day at school, I asked him about this baptism thing. He told me that he is really considering joining our church.

I really hope that he is joining for the right reasons. I want him to be happy and I want him to know the truth. I hope that I have been a good example for Will and I hope that he truly believes it.

I challenge all who read this post to invite a friend or acquaintance to come on Wednesday or to a stake activity or even to church on Sunday. It doesn't take a whole lot of time to just ask someone to go to church...and it is a whole lot less work for the missionaries. (Not that we want them to stop working or anything.)