June 23, 2014

Fifteen Months!!! 

 
This morning started off great with reading a lot from the Bible.  I love reading from the scriptures and especially learning more about the New Testament.  Reading in Acts just helps fortify my testimony of the power of God.  

This week we had the baptism of Maria!  We had several complications with this baptism that basically were due to not listening to the small promptings of the Spirit.  Yikes.  SO important to listen to the Spirit. Do NOT underestimate it's importance. 

  

We also are teaching a family who I absolutely ADORE!  Zoyla, her two kids and her 'spouse' are listening to us.  She went to church and LOVED it!  Cleared up a lot of doubts, too.  As many people seem to think, she had thought we had a statue of Joseph Smith in the church and adored it.  That's one of the marvelous things with people attending the church. They can see for themselves that we focus on Jesus Christ and everything is centered around Him.  Her two kids are super adorable. One looks like an american, even his eyes are blue green!  The other, 12 years old is very intelligent and bright.  They just soak up our messages.  Only obstacle would be that Zoyla and her 'spouse' need to get married before she can get baptised.  The spouse believes in God but not in any church.  But yesterday he expressed that he feels like God has something something planned for him.  He expressed his desire to have to power to  help people, especially to heal or counsel.  I leaned forward intently and told him that he COULD have this power because it is the power that God has made available to worthy men in The Church of Jesus Christ.   His attention peaked.  SO amazing!  Seriously, love this family!

We are teaching a young girl of 14 who also LOVES to listen to us.  There are a lot of activities this week for the youth and she is anxious to be able to participate. Only obstacle is that her dad is very strict and may not be very happy about her looking into the church.  But....she really wants to go. And her dad has given permission.  

Other great blessing this week is that we had an amazing lesson with the spouse of a member  yesterday. He is not a member, and he is in a process searching for spiritual answers. We watched a short video and at the end he just kept staring at the TV as though waiting for more.  I then shared my testimony that I knew it was true.  His face was different from all the other times we'd spoken with him.  He felt IT.  Still had doubts, but we told him simply to pray and he would understand.  My companion only had one word for this experience. 'Increible' and she repeated it over and over. Haha.  I love great lessons!

OK, it has been a great week, but have lots to improve on.  I hope you are all doing well!  Talk to you again next week!

Hermana Schultz