Week #97

a guy with a big unicycle

pizza made for us by members

taiwanese breakfast

This week was super great! We were only able to find one new investigator this week, but our other investigators are doing really well.
   We met with Mushroom twice this week. The first time we just went over the baptismal interview questions and everything went super well. Then the second time we met we talked a little more about the covenant of baptism. And she just felt like she wasn't prepared. I think for her part of it was just a little fear, but then there are some other areas that she felt she was really prepared. So we invited her to pray about it, and when she came to church yesterday she told us that she felt she was going to get an answer in the next couple of days. So she decided to do the baptismal interview on Tuesday and then depending on how that goes see whether or not she wants to get baptized on Saturday. So keep praying that she will be able to receive that confirmation from the Spirit.
   

We also met with Clarkson twice this week, and I had two of the coolest experiences that I have had on my entire mission. So last week when we met with him, we invited him to pray about the Book of Mormon. This week when we met he told us that the night he prayed about the Book of Mormon he had a super scary dream and he woke up with a lot of fear, and he wasn't really sure what it meant or what it had to do with anything. So we met with him and we talked about prayer, and the Spirit and different things. Then we invited him to say the closing prayer. After he got done saying the prayer, he started to kind of shake a little bit and he said he had goosebumps all over his body. He just couldn't really explain the feeling but it was so strong. Then he came to church on Sunday and we met with him afterwards. We talked about the experience and he shared that he still wasn't sure what it meant. He said he felt the same feelings as soon as he walked into the church, but the feelings kind of scared him a little bit because he had never felt anything like this before, let alone this strong. And he had been to different churches but never felt anything like this. So we talked again about the Holy Ghost and what his role is and stuff like that. Then at the end when we asked him to say the prayer, he couldn't even really speak because of how strong the Spirit was. And then when he finally started to say the prayer he just started crying. I have never seen anybody feel the Spirit so strongly before, especially an investigator. It was an amazing experience watching the Spirit touch his heart.
  

 剛剛好 there are 9 Christlike attributes in chapter 6 of PMG. And as of last I week had 9 weeks left on my mission. So I decided to do a deep study of one attribute each week and work really hard to apply that attribute. This week was faith in Jesus Christ. Something that I really like in PMG is when it says when you have faith in Christ "you accomplish what the Lord wants you to accomplish". A big part of having faith in Jesus Christ is making him the center of our lives and trying to align our will with his. When we do this, we will do the things that are pleasing unto the Lord, and those things in the end will make us happier! Love you all!