Hey! So we're emailing super early today! We've had several really
awesome experiences this week that were really spiritual. Here's
a few of them!!! :)
A random Muslim girl walked up and started talking to us! It's super
dangerous for Muslims to be converted to Christianity, but she just
walked up out of nowhere and started talking to us and wanting to
learn.
We also had a Lesson with a guy named mike for the first time. He was
referred by a member and he was really prepared. We talked about how
missionaries are called to teach the basics of the gospel. We
literally are helping hem to build a strong foundation on Christ so
that after they stop meeting with is they can continue to learn and
grow and build. The spirit was really strong and he seems super
interested in learning more!
This week I went on two exchanges with sisters in our zone (about 12
companionships). On the first exchange I stayed in the Langley YSA
ward and Hermana Craner came over here with me and my companion went
to her area. We were out checking in people and seeing if they were
interested in learning. On one door that we knocked on a person
answered the door and we were looking for his sister, but she wasn't
home so we started talking to him and stuff and he was really
interested in the gospel. He's African American and his name is
Deaunte. On no prompting from us, he started to tell us that he's gay,
but that he's felt really strongly that God doesn't want him to be
gay, so he's been trying to overcome it, and it hasn't worked, but he
wants to try again. He felt the spirit so strong in the lesson. I was
so amazed at his desire to overcome his temptations. That would take
enormous self control and whatnot, but he most definitely will be able
to do it. He said he was also going to start telling his sister,
Erika,about the experiences he has been having so that she could start
learning too!!
On the other exchange that I had.....was with my previous companion
sister Waldron!!! It was so exciting! We had several awesome
experiences and we wre also able to call our recent convert Vicki
eddington from one our previous wars where we had served together! So
we are all going to go up to the temple together in a few weeks.
We talked to a couple of brothers that had investigated over a year
ago and they seemed really interested. We had felt like we should go
check in a referral that we hadn't been able to contact, and he wasn't
home again. So we checked our area book to see if there were any other
people in that area who had been learning about the church and there
was one in particular named "Jesus", that stood out to us (obviously
the name helped....;) haha jk). So we went over to his house and his
brother Nelson answered the door. Then we just started talking to them
about the Book of Mormon and how it would bless their life, and by the
end of our discussion one of them said something about how he needed
to read the Book of Mormon more and how he would try to do it every
day. And the other one at first said that he would just read his
brothers copy, but I gave him one anyway and he said he would put it
in his car and read it if he had a few spare moments and he would try
to read it as finals approached because we promised him that it would
help him out with his finals and studies. They were super great! We're
really excited to start teaching them!
dangerous for Muslims to be converted to Christianity, but she just
walked up out of nowhere and started talking to us and wanting to
learn.
We also had a Lesson with a guy named mike for the first time. He was
referred by a member and he was really prepared. We talked about how
missionaries are called to teach the basics of the gospel. We
literally are helping hem to build a strong foundation on Christ so
that after they stop meeting with is they can continue to learn and
grow and build. The spirit was really strong and he seems super
interested in learning more!
This week I went on two exchanges with sisters in our zone (about 12
companionships). On the first exchange I stayed in the Langley YSA
ward and Hermana Craner came over here with me and my companion went
to her area. We were out checking in people and seeing if they were
interested in learning. On one door that we knocked on a person
answered the door and we were looking for his sister, but she wasn't
home so we started talking to him and stuff and he was really
interested in the gospel. He's African American and his name is
Deaunte. On no prompting from us, he started to tell us that he's gay,
but that he's felt really strongly that God doesn't want him to be
gay, so he's been trying to overcome it, and it hasn't worked, but he
wants to try again. He felt the spirit so strong in the lesson. I was
so amazed at his desire to overcome his temptations. That would take
enormous self control and whatnot, but he most definitely will be able
to do it. He said he was also going to start telling his sister,
Erika,about the experiences he has been having so that she could start
learning too!!
On the other exchange that I had.....was with my previous companion
sister Waldron!!! It was so exciting! We had several awesome
experiences and we wre also able to call our recent convert Vicki
eddington from one our previous wars where we had served together! So
we are all going to go up to the temple together in a few weeks.
We talked to a couple of brothers that had investigated over a year
ago and they seemed really interested. We had felt like we should go
check in a referral that we hadn't been able to contact, and he wasn't
home again. So we checked our area book to see if there were any other
people in that area who had been learning about the church and there
was one in particular named "Jesus", that stood out to us (obviously
the name helped....;) haha jk). So we went over to his house and his
brother Nelson answered the door. Then we just started talking to them
about the Book of Mormon and how it would bless their life, and by the
end of our discussion one of them said something about how he needed
to read the Book of Mormon more and how he would try to do it every
day. And the other one at first said that he would just read his
brothers copy, but I gave him one anyway and he said he would put it
in his car and read it if he had a few spare moments and he would try
to read it as finals approached because we promised him that it would
help him out with his finals and studies. They were super great! We're
really excited to start teaching them!
well, thats about all of the random news for the week! love you all!!
Eeewww thank goodness it's a wig!
:)