Blessings and Miracles

This week was a really amazing week. We have found a lot of people the past few weeks and this week we have been able to see a lot of them start progressing. I also got to do an amazing exchange and have my last interview with President Clark.

The two people I wanted to talk about are Jen and Karen. I'll start with Jen. She, Jon, and Abbie all live together. Jon is a member, but Jen and her daughter Abbie are not. We have been working with them for a while now. They have been very hard to have good lessons with, though. We finally had a good formal lesson for the first time in months this week. We found out that Jen wants to be baptized (#miracle) and is working some things out so she can accomplish that goal. Abbie is also thinking about baptism.

That was quite a miracle lesson. The spirit was super strong and they all had a great desire to come to church more and become more active as a family by the time we finished the lesson. 

We were blessed with a media referral about a week and a half ago named Karen. The first time we met her we gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she would read it. We went back this week for a return appointment and read some more of it with her and talked about a lot of things. She loved everything we had to say. She has really been struggling with so much in her life and needs some fellowship, so we invited her to church. She gladly accepted and came.

Here's the crazy thing that happened. It was fast Sunday and we explained how anyone can bear their testimony of they want to. Halfway through she walked up to bear her testimony. It was kind of scary. She got up and bore the most amazing testimony, though. She said she thought that our church replaced the Bible, but that she was happy to learn that the Book of Mormon was just a second witness to support it. She said she had always wondered how to know if the Bible was true by itself, and that it made so much sense to her. She then said she knew that this church was where she needed to be. #miracle

Another miracle is that her husband is Christian but kind of anti-religion, but it turns out he has a friend that goes to our church. So he will be at church next week. He also had some misconceptions about us and didn't think we were Christian, but Karen cleared them up and now he also wants to start reading the Book of Mormon. #miracle

That was a pretty long email, but there were some amazing things that happened here. It's so amazing seeing how the Lord puts people in your path and opens suits for you as you put your trust in him. We went to Jon, Jen and Abbieʼs expecting to teach the restoration, but felt like they needed the Gospel of Jesus Christ instead. So we taught that one and it was exactly what they needed. Miracles happen as you rely on the spirit.