THIS WEEK WAS SOMETHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT!
Ok, so we have the cutest new investigator. She is 14 years old and it super ready and openminded and excited to learn. Her parents are Catholic and she has been studying with los Testigos de Jeovah for 3 years. She is just super duper confused by all of the doctrines and different things she is being told. She has a lot of questions about the plan of salvation and we are going over tonight to teach her.
Our lesson with M. was amazing! We went over with Hna. K and we talked about the Book of Mormon. She told us that she did what we had asked. She had prayed and read the pamphlet on the Restoracion and told us it was true! We invited her to be baptized and she seemed open to it. Her only hang up is that she is worried what we believe when it comes to the Virgin Maria.
We had a really cool experience with our Relief Society president. We went and talked with her about all of the Hnas. in our ward and what we can do for them. They have kinda been forgotten and the Relief Society has decided to make them their focus. Well, our Relief Society president was so excited about it that she called us later that night, invited us to dinner and went out to visit with us. She had written each sister a letter in Spanish and they all appreciated it so much!
We went and saw D. So, he has been reading the Book of Mormon. He told us he had a few questions and he took out this little sheet of paper he had written them on. Well, his question was about why Nefi had to kill Laban. As soon as he asked us about it I got the biggest smile on my face! I am sure D. was wondering why I would be so excited and happy about a man being beheaded. Let me tell you why I was so happy! I have heard so many mission stories about people asking that question and it had never happened to me! 15 months into my mission and it happened! I am so happy that he is reading and having questions... it shows how real his desire is! Also, my companions and I were so shocked to see him walk into church this week! Hno. E. had called him and went and picked him up all oh his own! #members!!!
The week keeps getting better!
We have the BEST new investigators, C. and I.! We had one of the most amazing first lessons with them! We taught the Restoracion and I can’t tell you or describe what the spirit felt like! You could almost feel it in the air! It was tangible! They both got teary eyed and I was about to start crying as well! I. is going to be at church next week and I am SO excited to go back!
So, this week we had the AMAZING experience of getting to hear from and meet Elder Cook from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles! We drove 3 hours from Winchester to Annapolis and he spoke to our mission! It was an incredible experience! He shook each of our hands and gave the most amazing advice to our mission! Probably my favorite thing he said was "We are the message". It is so true! We are the message of the restored gospel! How we act and how we live our lives is a testimony of the church and of our Savior Jesus Christ! It was also said in the conference that "We are always made equal to the task". It was an amazing experience and I am never going to forget it!
The icing to the cake was being able to go and see A. get baptized! A. lives in Baltimore and Hna. Orton and I would visit him and his family. He got baptized in a river!!! It was a beautiful experience!
My week was amazing!!!! The weather is also cooling down so that is a huge plus :) I love you guys!!!
-Hermana Mangum
A.'s baptism!!!
Spa party!
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