Boy, this area is tough. This lady wanted me to read some anti-Mormon material about the choices the early apostles made. She just knew the book would convert me. I told her it's not the leaders I'm converted to, but rather to God and Jesus Christ. She didn't have much to say after that.
Elder Ball and I are trying to commit a 13 year old girl to come to Church. We spoke with her about keeping the Sabbath Day holy. We made sundaes and we put chocolate syrup and whipped cream on it and gave it to her mom. Then we made another sundae and put salad dressing and bar-b-que sauce on it and gave it to the 13 year old girl. She was so disappointed and asked why we would do that. We told he all of those things are good, but they don't belong on sundaes. We then taught her that buying something on Sunday, ruined the "sundae" she gave to the Lord.
I was studying the Book of Mormon and studying from the chapters in Moroni about infant baptism. It lead to this HUGE trail of personal revelation that took me through the Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, the New Testament, and back to the Book of Mormon. IT WAS AWESOME! One question lead to thousands of ideas and answers. In the end I came away with one answer: "Baptism, is used without authority, and if used to just go through the motions, without the right intent, can lead to condemnation." Moroni was talking about how infant baptism was an abomination to God because everyone has to have the agency to follow Christ and infants don't have a clue what is happening when you baptise them.
I have had a lot of people ask me why I'm out here on my mission. I tell them 1) it's what the Lord wants me to do, and 2) I would not want to be anywhere else no matter how much I miss the things back home. I miss you guys tons. Thanks for everything you've done to help me get here, whether it be physical, emotional or spiritual.