The... what the... a little kid just came up to us, tapped us on the shoulder, asked us if we were the mormons, we said yes, then he gave us a little pass along card of the Virgin Mary. ... Something fishy is going on here...
Anyway, it was the best testimony meeting of my life yesterday! I even cried!
Our mission president told us to challenge Diana to give her testimony during testimony meeting. She passed her baptismal interview, she is allowed to be baptized at any time, but she just wants to wait until she's even more sure... So we challenged her to give her testimony. She said she would.
When she stood up, everyone knew that she was an investigator, and there was just a stillness in the room, and she gave a killer testimony. It sounded like she had been a member for years. She said that she knew that the church and the Book of Mormon were true. That her life has changed a lot. That going to church, she really DOES feel better about herself. That reading and praying makes her know that God exists. She talked for probably 3 minutes, testifying. It was crazy. After the meeting, all the members went up to her and congratulated her, and gave her advice, and it was awesome. It made me feel very overwhelmed. I was just so happy for her.
We went by afterwards with a member. He showed her pictures from his baptism, and told her of all the blessings he has received, then HE invited her to be baptized, and she still wants to wait. It's killing us.
In other news, One of the families that we started visiting, the one who said that the day before we came, he saw two pillars of fire coming from the sky, started going to church! But for whatever reason, they started attending a different church. I'm not sure why. It's extremely frustrating.
Another woman that we found last week said that she prayed to God, asking to know what church to start attending and asked for help in deciding. 2 days later, we showed up at her door. She said that she felt the Spirit, and is so stunned that we came to help her decide. Well... we visited her Saturday, and she said that she decided to attend the Lutheran Church. I wanted to jump up and yell "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! WHY??!´" She doesn't want to pray and ask God anymore which church to attend. She said that she was baptized Lutheran, and it wouldn't be right to change. I was GOING to yell at her "you think that it was just a coincidence that we showed up at your door right when you were praying for guidance?" But we didn't. All we did was thank her for building OUR own personal testimonies in our message. We felt the Spirit with her, and now are certain that what we teach is correct, and that we really are guided by God. Then we left.
Well it's been a rough week. But Diana´s testimony was great.
Hey, I'm not sure if I said this last week, but...
We're teaching another family. They didn't come to church yesterday. They were on vacation. The mom said that she had a lot of questions about religion. She attended an Evangelical Church, and it just made her more confused. So she stopped attending. A week later, she prayed to God, asking for help. And within an hour or two, we showed up to her house, and set up an appointment to return. We went back the next day, and talked about the Restoration. And she loved it. Her husband, also, loved it. They will be baptized, I know it.
Ups and downs this week.
Today, ill be able to see Elder Baskin, so i'm pretty stoked about that. We'll be staying in the mission home tonight together!
Elder Christensen
me over a freeway
me close to a river and an old volkswagen van
selfie
me eating choripan with our Elders Quorum President in the church
The entrance to a cemetery freaks me out
me cooking lunch today!
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