So this week has been a week of miracles. It has been so cool to see the Lord’s hand in the work. I think that more than any other transfer on my mission, we are not working effectively with time. I try to push my companion. I try to do what I think is best, but then I have trust in my companion and just have patience, and overall, I don't think the work has hindered much. A little yes, but it is still going forth. That is a huge miracle in my eyes.
The other day I was just
thinking about the last while on my mission and before. It is interesting to
see how I have changed and the different decisions that I would have made. Some
of the things I look to the beginning of my mission where I thought I knew a
lot, but really I knew nothing and how I wish I would have known more back
then.
So this week the huge miracle
that I saw was on Thursday morning. We were riding back toward the area around
our apartment, getting back from visiting people across town. On the side of
the street, just a half block away from the church, there was a younger couple
walking. I pulled over and talked to them for a while. It was a great talk we
had with them and they said that we are welcome to come back. I asked if we
could do anything for them and the lady said that we could just say a prayer
with them, so we did. They kept walking after the prayer and my companion and I
stayed on the curb and wrote down their information.
When I was done writing down
everything, we started to ride toward the next people we were going to visit,
and I looked up and saw that the couple was now right in front of the church. I
had an impression we needed to take them on a church tour, so I rode really
fast and caught up with them again. We asked them if they wanted to go on a
tour of the church and they said they really would. After the prayer, the guy
had really felt something. He wanted to know more. It was so cool and such a
blessing to see how the Lord works. We took them into the church and started to
begin the church tour. It was a super good tour of the church. We showed them a
few pictures and the chapel. We did a brief overview of the restoration and it
went really good. They understood the need for authority really well. It was
for sure a good thing to go and talk with them again. We also showed them the
baptismal font and they wanted to be baptized. So they now have a baptismal
date. It was such a cool experience.
We are also teaching another great family and
they are doing super good. We finally got the whole family to sit in to a
lesson and it was awesome!! We got all 7 of them. It is the Mom and Dad and
then 5 boys. I thought we were the biggest family of boys ever, but no, in Visalia
I have met 2 families that beat us, one with just 5 boys, the other with 8 boys
and no girls! Ya lots of boys. So we got the whole family sitting down by the
end of the lesson. The father was in and out but sat in for the last 20 minutes
of the lesson and one of the older boys came in for the last 10 minutes or so.
It was so good the spirit was so strong. We asked them all a question. The
Question was if Jesus was here right now what would you ask him? The mom said
why are there so many churches and the Dad said how do I get my family together
forever? It was so cool to have them
ask those questions because they are so easily answered in our church. They have
really become a solid family and a really cool one too. They boys are fun to be
with because they are the ages of my little brother’s They came to play in the turkey bowl with us on Thanksgiving Day. 