Hello,
Where to even start...
Phoenix! So just to clarify, we met Phoenix right after we met with Paco and Jaquelin the first time. We were skipping through the park and we see the family -mom,dad and son and we talked with them and Phoenix chirped up (even though the parents said no thank you because they were Buddhist) and said that he would love to learn more about Jesus. SO. . . since then we have been teaching him and this week he went on the Father and Sons campout with the ward. Sadly, his stepdad had to work but his parents gave the okay for him to go with the family that we bring with us to his lessons and he just had a blast. That is just the coolest thing ever that he was able to go! After he got back Phoenix's mom called and just thanked us up and down for that experience for phoenix! Sweet!
Paco and Jaquelin! They came to church this sunday! It was their first time and they showed up all spiffy Jaquelin wearing a dress and Paco even wearing a suit jacket! At the end they thanked us and seemed to have really enjoyed themselves, but we will get the real scoop this week. We had the best lesson with them and we taught them about having faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. It was powerful and amazing and at the end Jaquelin said "I finally get it!" It was awesome and we extended a date for baptism and they accepted so we told them that in order to get baptized, they would have to be keeping all of God's commandments, meaning getting married. They totally agreed and told us they would talk about it this week and we can make plans when we meet with them this week! SOOO EXCITED! they are just amazing :)
Deborah! A month or so ago we met Deborah and she told us to come back, which we did 2 times and both times she said I'm not feeling well and asked us to come back another time. We were thinking that she really wasn't interested, but thought we would try back one more time. So we did and to our surprise she answered and invited us in. We then sat down and tried to get to know her a bit and asked her about her family and she just completely opened up and told us about two of her sons that had passed. She proceeded to tell us -very emotionally- that one of her sons (who was atheist) appeared to her in a dream and told her not to worry about him because he is the happiest that he had ever been and he is in school right now learning about Jesus with a bunch of other people!!!! You can imagine Sister Price and I are freaking out because she is completely describing the Spirit World and we told her that we knew that the experience she had was true and that those who have passed are intact at this time, learning more about Jesus in the Spirit World. She was very relieved that we didn't think she was crazy and she agreed to meet with us again. She wasn't able to attend church this Sunday but she looked at as firmly and said.. "But I will soon"!
Missionary work is the best work that can be done!
Ohh man so much to write and so little time...
On friday our mission did something that we had never before done. From 8 am- 8:30 pm all the missionaries met as zones and read the Book of Mormon... ALL DAY! If you asked me to do that before my mission I would've definitely said no way, but it was the BEST experience ever! We were to focus on Christ and highlight references of Him, His attributes, and His words and it was just amazing to be able to do that!
I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and is in fact Another Testiment of Jesus Christ! The biggest thing that stuck out to me is that the Book of Mormon is written PLAINLY for us! it is so plain and we just complicate it. The gospel is so simple for a reason; so that we can know EXACTLY how we can return to live with Him!
I love you all! Go and read the Book of Mormon TODAY! It will bring the Spirit into your lives that you just can't deny.
love,
Sister Martin
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