A sense of urgency

We had a cool week. We invited President to a lesson and he came. (He´s so great at helping each individual.) We started the lesson but then we could tell that President was getting ansy so we looked at him and he said that he was going to talk for a bit. For the next hour and a half he explained everything from Adam and Eve until right now and the spirit was there the whole time.  He teaches like the prophets of old.  It was a great experience to learn from our president.

I contacted one older lady and we went to visit her. Her grandson had just got put in jail for fighting, so she was feeling a bit down. We invited her to church and she said, "yes". The next visit we taught the Restoration and at the end she prayed that her grandson could get out of jail. When she said" amen", the phone rang and they told her that her grandson had been released. Nice! The next time that we went her daughter and son in law and their two kids were there. We read 3 Nephi 11 and the spirit was there. So cool. We explained Jesus' baptism and they all accepted to be baptized next Saturday. All but the dad made it to church. In the lessons, the kids were super into it and all excited to be baptized. It was very cool. 

Well, we contacted over 500 people this week and are trying to have a sense of urgency about the work. It is cool and tiring to be talking every single minute of every day to people about the Book of Mormon. I like it a lot. The church is true. I trust in the revelation of President Tervort. He truly has been called of God to help us as missionaries. I love this work! 

The spirit is just sooooooooo cool!!!!

The spirit is just such an amazing companion. It really does lift us up when we need a little boost and it is so worth it to live worthy of it. It blesses my life and the life of all those around me. Heavenly Father really has provided us with everything that we need in order to be happy and help others be happy. IT¨S ALL JUST SOOOOO COOL!!!!!!! Jesus lives and loves us and we can find strength through the sacrifice that He made for us. What great comfort that brings to me. I love you!!!

Successful mistakes

This week we made sure to get 120 contacts.  President Tervort said we should have that many each week, and we’ve never really had much success with contacting, but before we can complain about it we have to do it, right?. We found a couple of people and once, while looking for an address, we went to the wrong door and found a cool lady. I love how sometimes the Lord lets us make successful mistakes.

The spirit does amazing things

This week has been good. We entered one house and the grandpa started explaining how they were Catholic and told us about it - we listened and then Elder Coulter asked if we could say a prayer. Elder Coulter offered the prayer and the Spirit immediately came. I don’t even know what he said in the prayer, because the spirit just told me to identify Him right after the prayer. At first it shocked me to identify “the spirit” so early, but I followed what President has said about following the spirit and being bold with it and asked them how they felt when my companion prayed. They all said tranquilo and cosas bonitas. (Tranquility and beautiful things) We got return appointments and I felt blessed to have followed the spirit. Another quick experience: We met with Adriana and she told us that she really doesn’t believe in God or Jesus. We started by teaching Faith and then the rest of the doctrine. The spirit came and we identified it and I asked, if based on her feelings, did she believe that God and Jesus exist. She said she did and we set a baptismal date with her. The spirit does some amazing things to change the hearts of the people we teach and us as teachers. I love it!

I don't know how it works but I know it's real....

I know that Christ lives and that His Atonement is real. I have tried to learn more and more about what He did for me, and even though I don’t know a lot about the Atonement and really don’t understand it, I know that it is real and that it works in the life of anybody who wants to accept Him. The first lesson we teach is proof of the power of the Atonement. We get to the house and talk about the people’s lives. Once the spirit tells us that they have mentioned a need, we talk about the Atonement and how it can fix that need. We then tell them that the door that leads to accepting the Atonement is baptism. For those that are now baptized the key is repentance and participating in the Sacrament. It does not matter what the doubt is, the Atonement covers all. Every time we teach that concept the spirit comes so very strong to testify of what we are saying. It is through the spirit’s witness that I have been able to know the power of the Atonement - it is real, I know it is. I dont know how it works, but I do know that it does work! Everybody can feel the love of the Savior in their lives if they just trust Him and take the first steps back to Him. I know that Christ lives and that His Atonement is real.

Tasty delights...

I ate some lamb soup. They prepare the meat by digging a hole and leaving it there, covered, for 7 hours. The broth of the soup is the juice from the meat. Very interesting. Just saying. We have also eaten pig’s feet - very weird texture. Other than those things I like everything else that I've tried.