Faith to Overcome Extreme Opposition

Elder Walton and Elder Griffiths with
a new member at her baptism.

This last week we were teaching someone who was progressing toward baptism. In fact, her baptism was actually this last Saturday. We knew that Satan would try to do something to derail that, but we weren't sure what. 

One day she asked us about some show she'd watched (I won't say the name of the show, but this particular show was not the most reliable source of information) and it had talked about Mormons. We addressed her concerns and it didn't cause her to stumble at all. We laughed and jokingly said, "Is that all you've got, Satan?" It certainly wasn't. 

Within the next few days we were stressed out of our minds and at one point we weren't sure if this woman's baptism was going to happen. Satan has power and he doesn't want people to become members of God's church. Every time there is a baptism into Christ's church, there is some extreme opposition that tries to stop it. Sometimes it works. Most of the time it doesn't. This opposition was a testimony to me that this truly is Christ's restored church on the earth.