First off
this week was wayyyyy amazing. My testimony of following counsel and the power
of prayer has really grown.
Sisar Egan
and I have really been working together to do all things cheerfully and help
people not only hear but see the happiness that we are talking about this
gospel bringing. I have realized more and more when we feel light and happy it
is from the Lord when we dread going outside, or starting a new day, that is
not the Holy Ghost and that is not from our Heavenly Father. We need to pray to
find the miracles each day, to love the person in front of us, to see the
person that they can become.
We have really
been focusing on praying for families and asking people for referrals. We went
over to a member’s house and listened to her amazing conversion story. Up until
this point we have never had any success with asking for referrals but this
week we have really been trying to apply all the counsel that has been given to
us. So after her inspiring conversion story and we asked her if there is anyone
that she knows that we can help or bring more joy and happiness to their lives.
She got very excited and said that she had been working with some people that
are ready now for us to contact and she gave us a list of 9 referrals! Mahtava!
It gets even better from there after they fed us food, and we were about to
leave she got very excited again and said that she wanted to contact one of her
friends with us. So we all went over to her friends house, who has this
beautiful family, and we had an amazing discussion. They had a lot of really
good questions and turns out they have come to church before with the member
that we were with. They agreed for a time we could come back and bring them
lunch. I have learned that when we truly follow all counsel the Lord has given
us, he will provide a way and will answer our prayers. We ended up with 10
total referrals for the day, 1 contacted, a family of investigators and a
member that is so excited to come out with us next week to find more
investigators!
This week we have
been focusing on talking to everyone and taking the time to make sure when we
have a great opportunity of 20 min to sit next to someone and share the gospel
on the bus, and invite these people to change their lives. As nerve
racking and as awkward as it is sometimes, we were determined to follow
counsel. We were in one area this day with a member and trying to decide if we
should stay in the area or if we should get on a bus and go back to the center.
We prayed together on the street and we all had a strong feeling to hop onto
the bus that was coming. As soon as I got on, I knew I needed to sit next to
this young man, (we were praying to find future priesthood holders) we started
talking and the discussion turned to religion and turns out that he has visited
our church a couple of times before. We had a great discussion on prayer and
luckily we got off at the same stop and he said that he would love to meet
again and discuss more! We prayed for a future priesthood holder and we found one!
As we have been
focusing on talking to everyone, it sometimes is harder on the streets near the
center where it is more busy, but we were on our way to meet a member and we
see two guys walking down the street. So I whisper to Sisar Egan, ''Lets give them
the word.'' We stopped them and start talking and turns out they know a little bit
about our prophet, and that they are open to learning more, we swapped numbers and
later that night they texted us asking when we can meet, so we invite them to
Stake conference, and the next day one of them came! After conference, he asked
if we could sit down and talk more about what we believe and our prophet, we
grabbed a member and our new investigator asks if his two friends that are
waiting outside can come in too. So we ended up having a member teach on the spot
with these 3 investigators and set up another time to meet and discuss. So in
total just from this experience we found 5 new investigators and they are all
future priesthood holders! When we listen to counsel and follow the Lord, He really
will bless us. When we do what we promise the Lord is bond to his word, and He
never fails.
So
we last minute called a member to come to our two investigator lesson and she
agreed and came to it, one investigator has been investigators for years and doesn’t
have a testimony of Joseph Smith but is basically a member and has even read
all of Preach my Gospel before! Anyways, after that lesson we met another
investigator at our friends house and watched "Finding Faith in Christ" and committed
him to baptism and he said that he wanted to follow Christ's example and become
clean through baptism, but because of his religious background he shared with
us that if his family finds out, then he will be in a lot of danger, and it is
against our rules to teach if they will be in danger. So now we can't teach him
anymore, due to his safety and it broke my heart because he really does want to
follow the example of his Lord and Savior. I know that one day he will be able
to join this gospel without living in fear that his life might be taken
away.
So two funny
stories of the week, one, we got a call from the mission president and he says,
''is this Sisar Hubner’’. I say yes. He says '' I just received word from
your parents...'' my heart literally dropped to the floor! I thought that he was
going to tell me that someone in my family died or something terrible happened. After a long pause he says, ''your parents said that you have a tooth problem
that needs to be fixed.'' Oh my goodness almost gave me a heart attack, and
turns out it just about fixing my tooth! Hahahhaa so funny, I didn’t recover
from that one for a good ten minutes.
Other funny story
this cute 18 year old girl from our ward came out with us for the day to come
to lessons, and we saw this cute old lady looking sad and staring out the
window so I say, hay lets go up and talk to her. So we go up into the building
and try and find her door, no answer, so we try the next one to see if we got
the wrong one, and this old man answers the door butt naked........our poor
member, is now scarred for life, hahahha he said to not come back, and you know
what I think we will listen to him!
Anyways got to go, I love you all, the picture
is an old one from last transfer with Nielsen, my camera is dead so no recent
pictures for a while
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