The Book of Mormon Changes People

So this week was a beautiful one in Vista Alegre, Brazil. I got a new companion named Elder Dorneles and he is awesome. I am just so inspired by him all the time. He teaches so powerfully with the spirit and is so good at inviting people to change their lives. I am so grateful that I have had such an amazing oppurtunity to be with someone so inspiring.

This week I saw the way that the Book of Mormon changes people. We have been working with a less active member in the ward. He smokes, drinks coffee and loves the missionaries. We talked to him about his scripture reading and he said he tries to read a few verses out of the bible twice or three times a week. We talked to him about making a goal to read the Book of Mormon and so we have started passing by his house two times a week to read with him and the other day he reads on his own.

Yesterday we went to his house after church....Which he started attending weekly too.....We started talking to him about church, what he has been reading and then he said to us¨I need to start preparing for the temple, I have been missing out on so many blessings that God has for me.¨

For the longest time I did not have the strongest testimony about Joseph Smith´s quote in the introduction, that a man would be able to become closer to Christ through the Book of Mormon then any other book. It is true. If we want to help a friend, family member or loved one change their life, start with reading the Book of Mormon.

The difference that the scriptures make in our life is the difference of someone who has the spirit and someone who does not. 2 Nephi 32:2-5

Eu te amo

Elder Cooper