This past week was too good. (Except when I hit my HALFWAY mark...)
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Monday
we visited the friend of a member. She is old and German and ended up
telling us about her childhood and started crying. I can testify that
old German woman do not cry, but she did! We were then able to testify
to her about the Atonement and about how much her Saviour and Heavenly
Father love her and how the trials she endured have taught her how to be
a good mother to her children. It made me grateful for my German
grandmother who blessed my life with the love and guidance I needed as a
child.
Tuesday
we had a special zone conference with half the mission! It was AMAZING.
The means of our vision is switching gears a little! We will be working
A TON with members and I'm so excited about it.
We also talked about the new He is the Gift initiative that the church is producing! It is AMAZING.
DISCOVER
EMBRACE
#SHARE
I invite everyone to
1) watch the video "He is the Gift" on christmas.mormon.org
2) and then to think about how Jesus Christ is God's gift to you
3)
and then share that with your friends and everyone else! Share it on
your social networks, send it to a friend, invite a stranger to watch
it.
Let us flood the world with the gospel. Discover the gift, embrace the gift, then share the gift!
After
the meeting, our mission President and His wife surprised us by showing
us the movie, "Meet the Mormons"-- IT IS SO GOOD. EVERYONE GO WATCH IT
AND JUST CRY YOUR EYES OUT WITH TEARS OF HAPPINESS.
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So
this week we visited a lot of members! I'm excited to get to know more.
Yesterday in sacrament, I was invited by the Bishop to share my
testimony and I bore testimony of the simple truths I know about the
restored gospel and about our Heavenly Father's love for each of us.
Good thing I did not specify where in Texas I was from because it gave
some members a reason to come up and ask me, so I got to know lots of
members that way!
One night we had dinner with
the Pulsiphers. They are C E L E S T I A L. I love them dearly. It was
truly one of the most spiritual experiences of my life. I left their
home a different person. I am so grateful for them and for the spirit. A quote they shared with us was,
"...the
one power, even beyond sight, that can burn doubt out of us and make
it, as it were, impossible for us to disbelieve—is the Holy Ghost."
I KNOW that this is true. This ^ is how our Heavenly Father communicates to us-- through the Holy Ghost.
Yesterday, Satan was suuuuch a stink!
So
there we were-- tracting (also, something I never have done in YSA, but
it's so fun!). We saw a couple leaving one of the houses and so we
approached them. The husband began asking us a little about who we were
and about our main message and we shared a portion of the restoration
and he immediately began telling us that what we believed was false
doctrine. The woman whose home they were leaving said she even met with
missionaries in the past and said she read from the Book of Mormon and
prayed about it and felt she was SINNING (what?). The man went on
further to tell us more about what we believed (I love when people do
that!) and said that we do not believe in the same Jesus Christ as he
does and that we are a cult and that he cannot even wish us luck on our
missions because we are preaching false doctrine (as he pretends to
shake our hands and then slowly and so proudly pulls away).
Man!
I feel bad for them. I feel bad because Heavenly Father loves them so
much and they don't even know how to return to live with Him.
This restored gospel of light and happiness and hope and TRUTH teaches us how to return to live with our Heavenly Father and everyone needs what we have. Think about who in your life is ready to receive the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and then invite them to partake of the sweet goodness we feel and value!
I love the gospel and my Saviour so much.
He is coming again one day.
Are we prepared?
xoxo
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