hey, have you tried the Book of Mormon?
Zone Conference - 8-8-17 Porterville, Visalia, Hanford
I have asked myself at least 26 times this week why the Lord is choosing to bless us so much. I could go on and on and on
in fact I'll just go ahead and do that.
We had a lesson with Reuben this week who is incredible. He came to church last week-he had biked there and literally there was only ten minutes left of church when he ran into Brother Hernandez in the parking lot. So instead of having him go to class we had a super fast, super not planned lesson, but it was a good one and obviously the spirit was there because this is how our lesson began this week.....
Me: So Reuben, have you been thinking about what we taught last week?
Reuben: Ya. I'm going to do it.
Me: Do what?
Reuben: Be baptized, it'll be on the 26th right?
YES. Reuben is technically ysa (young single adult) but is not interested in attending ysa. Plus we are teaching his best friend Dakota who is fifteen. Plus Reuben just happened to be fellow shipped by literally the best family in the whole entire planet. The Hernandez family.....who you will hear more about.
Also Reuben called us last night and we asked him what he learned at church and he said, "I learned you should ask people....hey, have you tried the Book of Mormon?"
So that was a great blessing.
More about the Hernandez family. They introduced us to one of their close family friends who we have been teaching. We had our second lesson with her this week. We taught the Plan of Salvation. She was getting kind of emotional when we taught about Christ's atonement and the power it can have. We left thinking it was a great lesson...then we got a phone call from Brother Hernandez..and now we know it was a miracle. After we left their house he asked her what she was feeling when she was reading the scriptures we gave her. And she shared with them that she had received a letter from Brother Hernandez's son (who is currently in jail) and he shared his testimony and some of the scriptures he really, really wanted her to read. They just so happened to be teaching the same thing as the scriptures that we really, really wanted her to read, and obviously that was the thing that Heavenly Father really, really wanted Aaron to know. We tried the Book of Mormon with Aaron- it worked!
Also...Brother Hernandez told us that he is sending copies of the Book of Mormon to his son in jail who is being the ultimate missionary. Apparently when he first started sharing the Book of Mormon with people and everyone kept asking what it was he came up with this killer line....."Well it's called the Book of Mormon- because it's more men testifying of Jesus Christ." and then he teaches them about prophets. Golden.
So that was a great blessing.
Still a little bit more about the Hernandez family. We went over to teach Dakota- normally we teach him and Reuben together at Reubens house. Reuben wasn't home...so we had to teach Dakota at his own house...which he was super hesitant about because he had never introduced us to his family before. We got there and Brother Hernandez was with us and we had SUCH A GOOD LESSON. We taught about the gospel of Jesus Christ and his mom kept looking at Dakota and saying- "I have taught you all of this before- they are saying the same things that I've always told you. Why are you listening to them and not me?" BUT THEN Dakota says. "Mom. You have never taught me about the restoration. You have never taught me about the spirit world." It was so cool to hear Dakota bear his testimony of the RESTORED gospel to his mother. We also started talking about baptism and Brother Hernandez was there and shared...
Isiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
One of His favorite scriptures and shared this cute little thing. He said..."there are no pink people. We are either covered in the scarlet sins or we are as white as snow. There are no in-betweens. So as we kept talking about baptism..Dakota seemed a little nervous and unsure. So I said well let's make a pro/con list about baptism. THEN AUGUSTINE Dakota's little brother....who we have only taught once said. "PRO: You get cleansed from sin. CON: There are no con's. You should get baptized Dakota. Wow.
Another thing about Dakota. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation first because he had a ton of Plan of Salvation questions and asked him to read the Book of Mormon. The next time we went back and he hadn't read but we taught him the restoration and shared moroni's promise. After we did that he said. "You know last time I said I'd read the Book...but now that I know all of this....I'm definitely going to read the Book." Dakota tried the Book of Mormon. AND IT WORKED. He was totally bearing testimony to his family when we came back.
So that was a great blessing.
We taught an investigator that we haven't seen in weeks. We didn't know where she was at because we hadn't seen her in so long....we took a member with us....and basically we sat down with Cindy and she just bore her testimony of the first three lessons she's had and she remembered it all soooooo well. Which was so refreshing I walked out of that lesson so happy because it finally felt like someone was getting what I was saying. (I probably felt this way because we've taught Rudy the restoration a million times) Not only did she get it all, but she wants to do it! She came to church on Sunday and that was huge for her. She's been wanting to come but gets anxious around a lot of people. We figured spanish would be best for her so she went....and brought her cute little son!
So that was a great blessing.
Also RUDY.
Rudy finally gets it.
He is having an interview to prepare for baptism this week.
so that is a great blessing.
I swear I could go on. In fact I am going to (for just a little bit longer)
-we had zone conference. I loved it. Our district destroyed in the keeping the balloons of the floor game we won.
-We had four people at church yesterday!!!!!!!! Loved it.
-Sister Burnside is still funny. #realquotesfromSisterBurnside "if i were celebrating Halloween this year....I'd be a multitude of fishes."
-Fasting works. Last week I included in my fast just a desire to feel more satisfaction from my service and boy I felt that this week. I'm so blessed.
-the Book of Mormon works.
-tulare, Ca is the coolest place on planet earth and also the hottest.
-I love my mission.
-missions are the best.
-the california fresno mission.
-everyone go on a mission.
LOVE YOU ALL.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK.
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