Another great week in Marquette,
Michigan!!!!!!!!!! We had zone conference this week and it was so so
so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our mission president,
President Cutler has been really focusing on the Book of Mormon
and getting our investigators to read because we are truly
helping them come unto Christ when we help them to study the Book of
Mormon. The spirit was so amazing and I truly felt the joy of the
spirit. We have the truth and it is good but it is what we do
because of the truth that we know that truly changes us. We are
trying to get souls into the Celestial kingdom, that is our goal. We
talked about the family. Our goal is to bind families together.
We also went on exchanges this week with the
sister training leaders. I was with Sister Neal and it was an
amazing day! We met with an investigator who is a
paraplegic. He had a very intense accident that led him to be that
way and has questions about what comes next after this life. I know
the gospel can help him as we continue to teach him. Sister Neal
and I also went tracting and I think she helped me to feel
less like a salesman in door approaches, haha. It
was definitely good. On Saturday we went to a less active
members house and started teaching them about studying the scriptures
and the blessing that come from reading the Book of Mormon. I ended
up talking a lot about how if we truly desire to feel of the joy that
comes from coming closer to Christ through the Book of Mormon we can and a lot
of desiring to have the blessings of the gospel and how the Book of Mormon can
help us. Then Sister Brandley surprised me by asking Lacey
if she had the desire to be baptized. I learned
that although the rest of the family was less active, Lacey was
not a member of the church. She had the desire to be baptized and had
taken the missionary lessons but then had lost the desire. I
thought it was cool that I hadn't realized this was her situation but through
the Spirit I had said what was needed to help her regain that
desire. She wants to be baptized again but she wants to understand
the Book of Mormon better. She has a hard time understanding it so we will
continue to work with her. I was really bold in talking to her because I
thought she was already a less active member and I probably wouldn't have said
all the things I did if I knew she wasn't baptized yet but she needed to here
my bold testimony of scripture reading. I guess the Lord works in
mysterious ways. :) We also met with the Stockers and they really need
prayers right now. They want to be baptized but life is hard and they
are struggling right now. Please pray for them.
Sunday was amazing too!!!!!!!!!!!! The
sacrament meeting talks were super good! One of them was on hastening the
work! The members here are so missionary minded, it is wonderful!
They are definitely a huge help! We helped with a few lessons in Sunday
school and we did missionary role plays with the young women.
Also, last night we met with a Chinese
investigator named Shuang!!!!!!!!!! She fed us real Asian soup! She
has to go to the doctor today and is super nervous so pray for her. She
is so nice and likes to learn about Jesus. It was a very interesting
lesson. They have Chinese copies of the Book of Mormon so when we would
take turns reading the scriptures out loud, Shuang and her father would read it
in Chinese and then we would read it in English. Difficult but it worked,
haha. Take advantage of reading the Book of Mormon! Even as
our prayers go up to the ears of the Lord, His voice comes down to us when we
read the scriptures. I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
