This week has truly been a week of miracles! We have found so many prepared brothers and sisters that want to come closer to Jesus Christ and learn about His church! Last week we found quite a few and this week our area books have just been flooded! A few days into this week Elder Hoag had the idea for us to begin praying for God to overwhelm our area books and since then we have gotten two awesome referrals, we have found a few people that are really interested and some of our previous friends have been progressing on the path back to our Father in Heaven! This week just as my first week in this transfer has been probably the best week of my mission so far! I am really enjoying the work and it brings so much joy for me to see and help those people I have come to love so much, choose to come unto God and receive the same blessings that come with living the Gospel of Jesus Christ! We also gave one of our friends a Priesthood blessing to help her through a trial she was going through. The incredible thing is that after the blessing, she wasn’t in pain any more!!! I knew and had faith that it would work however I didn’t know it was God’s will for her to be healed that quickly! So she was now able to come to church, unfortunately there was a mix up, mostly on our part, so she wasn’t able to get a ride to church but she has that desire and so she will come next week. There is so many miracles, little and big, that would love to write about this week but if I were to, this email would be VERY long. However, I would like to include in this letter the names of those we are teaching.
Mercedes: She is a bilingual Hispanic lady, about early 40’s, who Elder Hoag found last transfer. She is so prepared. They found her from a referral for her mom who wasn’t interested but Mercedes was!
Ed: He is such an awsome man. He wasn’t interested at first but then he opened up and I love him so much. He sounds a lot like Skipper on Planes (the movie). That gives you a pretty good idea on his personality. He is also really smart in engineering and computers. He has over 14 different patents one of them being one of the first prototypes of a durable hardrive. He often demonstrated by chucking it across the room to show his boss.
Patricia: She is an older widow who is going through some health problems. She doesn’t seem too interested but she loves having us over and having a small discussion. She has told us about her life and the trials she has been going through.
Robert and Roger: They are both referrals we received the day of and the day after we started praying for our area books to be overwhelmed. The both don’t have a church to go to and want to learn about our church and Jesus Christ. Both of them are what you call the perfect or golden referral!
Mike: He is someone who has been taught for a while. He has such a big heart. I love all of our friends so much!
This is all I will share for now.
I know God’s hand is in everything and that this church is Jesus Christ’s true and original church that He established here on the earth, nearly two thousand years ago, by the first prophet of this modern day, Joseph Smith. I know that God loves us and that Jesus Christ does too! I know this is true and this is my testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
I missed some pictures from previous weeks.
