Restoration

Happy 180th birthday to the church

Had an interesting experience tonight. Gelin was teaching the lesson in Family night about Genealogy. Several questions arose about the need for baptism for the dead along with eternal marriage. Most of the men are not members of the church and have different beliefs about life after death. They felt very strongly about Matthew 22 where Christ talked about marriage in the resurrection.They feel that scripture means that no one will be married after this life. It got rather rowdy and they asked me to help answer. I asked that they let Gelin finish the lesson and we would be happy to stay after and answer questions if they wanted. Well there were about 7 who stayed. Mike and I bore testimony about the restoration of the church. We explained that in order to believe, or even understand our beliefs, they must understand the need and possibility for modern prophets. I know they wanted to argue about marriage, but I think the restoration was more positive. They left with copies of the Book of Mormon and a promise to read and study. After those men left the missionaries told me they had already taught some of them and they already had copies of the Book of Mormon. We will see what happens. It is really true that a testimony of the restoration answers so many questions that trouble investigators.