May 11th 2015
Hello! So I'm writing early today,
Story one:
So yesterday at church I thought we were an hour ahead of where we
were, so at the munch and mingle I was panicking!! And trying to eat
the stuff fast and run to the car so we could run home and eat an
actual meal. I made my companion run all over the place with me. Ha ha
I was saying that we had five minutes to pull a meal together, and
somehow we did it and as we were running out the door (quite
literally) sister Donato goes, "what time is it?" I looked at my watch
and yelled back to her, "6:10! We've got to....oh. Wait. It's only
5:10, we still have an hour." My companion just started laughing.
We went to the visitors center to see “Meet the Mormons” that
night, we had a good group of people! A couple of Nonmembers and a
couple of members. They all really enjoyed it!
Story two:
We had an amazing day on Saturday. Seriously I don't know how it
happened. So to start off...on Friday night I was praying and I just
felt strongly that we needed to go to a particular place somewhere in
our area. It was weird because a couple days earlier I had the same
thought and we'd gone there and we'd met several awesome people, but
no one that I was thinking who would just get baptized right off the
bat...well maybe one girl. I don't know. Anywho. So I just like felt
we needed to go back and that we needed to go to a particular
apartment building.
Also as a side note...I've changed the names of the people we talked
to on this day. They’re all Muslim and it's not safe for Them right
now. In order to keep their names safe I will not put them in
writing and I won't send pictures of them home. Buuuuuut I'll show
them to you off my mission. Soooo yeah.
any who....back to the story. So we headed there and as we pulled in
we saw a bunch of people standing in a group, Probably 3 or 4 people.
So of course we walk up and start talking to them. One of them right
off the bat said that she wasn't Christian and left.
But the other girl was so cool. We'll call her Quan. She seemed really
interested and right off the bat told us some hard things that had
happened in her life. We gave her a Book of Mormon and stuff and kept
talking. The first girl came downstairs again (we'll call her Sarah).
And as we sat there talking Sarah listened. Out of nowhere from an
apartment upstairs someone started saying something and we couldn't
hear. Sarah walked over and listened and then came back.
Apparently the girl who was up on the balcony asked us to come over
and visit her as soon as we were done talking to Quan and Sarah. So
we weren't sure what to expect, but we finally headed up there.
The girl just let us straight in and started telling us how she just
really wanted to learn about Christianity. She was raised Muslim and
there's just things that don't sit right with her. She's been watching
videos about Jesus and watching movies about him. And she wants to
learn more. So we were super excited and she just told us to dive in
and start teaching her. Her name, or what she will be called here,
will be Molly.
So we just felt the spirit right from the beginning. She wanted to
learn. So we taught the restoration right from the beginning and she
just ate everything up. Seriously. The spirit was so strong. She loved
talking about Jesus Christ she wants to highlight the Book of Mormon,
she even specifically out of the blue asked us if she could come to
church with her tomorrow.
When we pulled out the Book of Mormon she goes, "whoa! I've always
wanted to learn about the Mormon’s!" Ha ha and during the lesson too
when the first vision was about to come up, I just knew that
something was going to happen in order to distract from the spirit.
So halfway through the lesson, Quan and Sarah came into the room and
seam (who wasn't interested in listening at first) sat and joined the
lesson, while quail went to the back room. Quan tried to call her to
the back room, but seam quietly said that she wanted to stay. So she
did. So as we are coming closer to the first vision and as we are
starting to preface it....someone starts yelling outside...someone
knocks on the door...all kinds of stuff, but we were able to settle
down and feel the spirit. But long story made shorter...she wants to
come to church next week and she wants to keep meeting!
(It's funny, we've actually been having a lot of legit experiences
like this happen lately)
Story three:
We had a lesson with Deaunte a couple days ago. He was super excited
to see us and wants to meet twice a week now. He's accepted everything
that we've shared and now He's now on date for baptism!! June 13th!
We're so excited!
Well, have a great week! Love you all.