One of the highlights of this week was stopping by the Fruit Heights annual city celebration this Saturday and working the crowd! A lot of the people we teach were excited to see us there and we found a few people who want the missionaries to teach them! As we were talking to one girl that was interested, one of the less active people we are teaching came up and testified of how the missionary lessons have helped him get back to church to help her have a desire to learn! It was sweet.
We experienced so many miracles this week!!
1. We taught Brother Huang from China again and he prayed for the first time EVER in his life! It was one of the sweetest, most sincere prayers I have ever heard. We had left him with a restoration pamphlet that he studied and in his prayer he said "I feel really good when I read this book and I want to learn more and know more because this feeling is nice". Isn't that just the essence of the gospel? When we act in faith, we receive lasting peace and joy that doesn't come from worldly pleasures, but from the spirit of God.
2. We are teaching 2 people named Sage, one a less active 27 yr. old man and one a 9 year old girl who hasn't been baptized yet. BOTH came to church for the 2nd time in a row this sunday! Little sage also came with us to the baptism of her 8 yr old friend Ellie who has been helping us teach the missionary lessons to Sage. Then she got up in sacrament meeting and bore her testimony!
3. Mike, who hasn't come to church the past 2 weeks and cancelled the lesson we had set up this week, texted us saturday night and said that due to more family issues that came up, he wouldn't be able to make it to church the next day though he had committed to. Well, we began our fast that night and prayed for him and lo and behold he showed up and stayed for all 3 hours of church the next day! THAT was a miracle. Satan persuades us just to give up and block out spiritual things when bad things happen, but the savior leads us with light:) Mike chose to follow the light this weekend!
4. Amanda got baptized! the added miracle was that her husband, who hasn't really been around lately, said friday that he wasn't coming to the baptism and Amanda was distraught. Something changed and the next day he showed up! We sang the song "Oh My Father" to the tune of Come thou Fount and then shared a message about the plan of salvation and looked at her husband throughout the whole thing. He looked very touched and now we're just praying he will commit to taking the lessons because he works crazy hours, sometimes 75 hour weeks, and is hard to schedule with. He is open to learning though because his 5 year old keeps begging him to baptize him when he turns 8!
Here are pictures from the baptism:
This was Ellie's baptism with Sage!! Sage is in the red dress She gave the Bishop th BIGGEST most wild handshake I have ever seen. She's kind of a character
After Amanda got baptized! Sadly her husband left before we could get a picture with him in it;) But the tall one id his son who gives a good idea of how huge his dad is.
Say hello to two of the most precious little boys God created. Trunell is the son of Amanda's cousin and Maurie (in the green shirt) is Amanda's 5 yr. old.
I'm so grateful for family. The gospel is what makes and keeps our families strong! I invite you to read and reread The Family A Proclamation to the World this week.
Time goes fast but there is still some left to keep getting tired out in the work of the Lord! It is the best feeling. :)
Love,
Sister Pearson
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