Week 27
“The process of bringing new people into the Church is not the responsibility alone of the missionaries. They succeed best when members become the source from which new people are found.” - Preach My Gospel
Elder Nash gave a great talk about “Holding up your light” in the last General Conference, and I loved the advice he gave to anyone who is trying to share the gospel. “Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of our faith. He will finish, He will complete, our exercise of faith - however imperfect - in holding up the gospel light. He will work miracles in our lives and in the lives of all He gathers, for He is a God of miracles.” I invite everyone to exercise what faith you have to invite one person to come a little closer to Christ. And I know it works because after reading this talk, I did just that. I exercised my faith and did what I could to hold up the light I have as a member of the church just a little more. We saw miracles in the contacts we made that day and the lives we were able to touch with our light.
I loved this last week as we were working a little more with members. We had a great lesson with a less active family and I love how the member who accompanied us extended the invitation to this family to attend church. While they said no, for the moment they are ok, they did explain why they weren’t ready to come back to church and now they know that this member along with others want them to come back. And we left them a Book of Mormon and some were reading it before we were out the door!!
We also had a great member lesson yesterday. We were honored to be the first missionaries in the house of these members after 2 years of COVID. We loved hearing all about their family and conversion story. As we were leaving we asked if we could kneel and pray with them, and the sister looked at us and said “Thank you, I have always loved when missionaries pray because they do it in such a humble way, the right way.” Who would have thought such little things as leaving a Book of Mormon or asking if we could kneel to pray would have such a spiritual effect on members. It really is those little promptings such as bringing an extra Book of Mormon or kneeling to pray that can lift another's burden and bring them a little closer to Christ.
We have two great people we are teaching. They both are reading the Book of Mormon. We receive many questions from them haha and they are such good questions! One night this week we had a back and forth text message conversation with one of them where we were literally spewing out doctrine in every word because they were asking us so many questions about our fundamental beliefs. It was actually a lot of fun! The youth we are teaching is also doing great. She is so cute, a little quiet, but she is reading the Book of Mormon, coming to church, and has a great relationship with some members, so we are so excited for her to continue to progress.
Oh and shoutout to Èlder Warburton who is now in BOLIVIA!!! Suerte con tu Español hermano!
Mucho amor,
Hermana Warburton
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