Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great week!
It is crazy to think that this transfer is almost up! Time on a mission is weird! It sometimes seems long but then you look up again and you are like what the in heck it's Thursday already??
So I wanted to start off by sharing my testimony about our beloved Prophet Thomas Monson who passed away this past week! He was the perfect example losing you life in serving the Lord! He has being serving the Lord for basically his whole life and he has been an amazing Prophet of God! I love him and sustain him! We thank thee oh God for a Prophet!
So this week Sister Gaston and I had the most tiring days yet on our missions this week. We just worked for about 10 hours straight (except for dinner) and we did not have really any appointments so it was a lot of referral contacting and knocking on doors that the spirit tells us to knock on. Needless to say, when we got home we were dead! It was a good feeling though in that we know that we worked hard to try and find new investigators. It was hard though because all we wanted to do was get in someone's door and teach them but it did not happen that day, but it was amazing because the miracle came the next morning!
So the next morning we went to go see this girl. We had been looking for her for the past few weeks and finally were able to find her. When we first got there she said that she was busy and that we could maybe come back another time and teach her. On thing that I love about Sister Gaston is that she follows the spirit and she is persistent when we need to be persistent. She told her that it would be a short lesson and that she would not regret in and she let us in to teach her!! It was amazing! At first she told us that she is Christian but she also is not too sure about God because she feels like she believes in Science. By the end of the lesson she told us that she is willing to put in effort to find out for herself if there is a God and she will read the Book of Mormon! It is amazing how Heavenly Father blesses us!
So a few weeks back we were able to meet and teach this part member family and this week we came back to see how they were doing. We went in there and read part of 3 Nephi 11 with them and got to know them better. Sister Gaston was amazing again to ask inspired questions and both of them opened up to us about their beliefs and where they are in their life. The wife, who is the non-member, even told us that she feels that Joseph Smith is a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true! We then asked her if she could ever see herself getting baptized into our church and she said yes! It was an amazing lesson!
So one of our recent converts who is 12 invites over his friends sometimes when we have new member lessons with him. Well one of his friends has been there for 2 of them and at the first one he did not seem very interested but the second one he was more interested! An amazing miracle too was that he was even at church with him!
One thing that was pretty amazing this week was teaching lessons on following the prophet. We had a lesson with a recent convert names on following the prophet the day we found out that President Monson passed away and it was amazing! We watched the video, "Dare to Stand Alone" by President Monson and I think it helped our Arron because his friends are not being very nice about him being Mormon. It is hard for him because he does not really have a family and his family is his friends. After that video Arron says, "Wow that is amazing! It makes me almost want to cry!" I love the words of the Prophets!
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Lacey
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