FAM!
How are you all doing? It sounds like everyone is doing great. That gives me so much happiness and comfort
to know that! This week has truly been a week of miracles in all ways possible!
Our mission theme is to focus on the BOM and as a companionship we have been
really focusing on that this week and I have never felt such a power of the
restoration in my life. I will tell you
of a few of these miracles that happened this week through the power of the
restoration.
We have been working with a 25-year-old less-active lately named
Alexander. He has really been struggling
with his testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith and the restoration of the
gospel. So the other day we decided to
watch the 20 minute video about his life.
After we were done we sat there for a while in silence and my companion
said, "Would you like to kneel down right now and ask if this truly
happened?" He resisted for a little bit but got down on his knees and
prayed for about 10 minutes long. As he
got up he had a tear in his eye. We didn’t say anything, usually we ask,
"How did you feel? Etc.," but we knew that he was going to speak.
Without saying anything he lifted up his hand as if he wanted to touch
something in the air and at the same time he looked at his hands almost shocked
and he says, "I have never felt something like that in my life. I can’t explain it. I can’t explain it. I can’t explain
it!" After a little bit more time
with us still staying silent he says, "I KNOW I can’t deny. I KNOW that Joseph Smith was a prophet of
God." I have never felt such a
strong feeling of the truthfulness of the prophet Joseph Smith in my life. So
unbelievable.
Another less-active, a 17-year-old named Ciro, the one who I was
talking about the other day who said he wanted to go on a mission. As we
entered into his house my companion and I had the feeling that we need to talk
about the prophet Joseph Smith. We
watched the video of him getting tarred and feathered and after the video it
was silent and he said, “The other night I had a dream with him. He was trying to get me to follow him but I
wouldn’t listen. But now it know it was
HIM the prophet Joseph Smith and NOW I can feel that the spirit is telling me
to learn more of him and his life in order to have an extremely strong testimony
of the restauration of the gospel.” As we have been going back this week he has
been investigating absolutely every book, movie, anything that he can get his
hands on about the prophet Joseph Smith. I have never seen someone who has such
a desire to learn more about the prophet. So amazing!
Yesterday at church one of the members brought a friend of hers to
church and as I sat there with her in the sacrament room as the reunion started
all of the sudden she began to cry and said, "This is so beautiful." I haven’t ever seen anyone be so touched by
the spirit that was there in that ward house. And as she was taking in this
amazing spirit all of the sudden I turned around and saw our pencionista walk
in with her HUSBAND! My companion and I have been inviting him this entire
change to come to church but he has always denied us saying he will die
Catholic. But even though we haven’t been teaching him directly every night we
are saying nightly prayers with their family and I am convinced that through
this small and simple thing, we saw this Sunday a giant step in his life!
Heavenly Father is so amazing!
Well, there have been many miracles this week and I am so grateful for
my Heavenly Father and for His CONSTANT guidance in my footsteps. If it weren’t
for him and for the example of my family I would be completely lost in this
work! Thank you for your prayers and your love.
I feel that each of you are right by my side! Keep moving forward and
smiling! Talk to you soon!
Love, Jess
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| My comp getting her DNI |
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