This
week was awesome. We had some great experiences. We don't have that
many investigators anymore, so we've been focusing mostly on finding and
making sure that the people we DO teach are being taught to the best of
our ability. We had some amazing teaching experiences which I know were
led by our Heavenly Father.
We met with San, from Cameroon, who's been learning for quite some time on and off. She'd been doing fairly well in reading the Book of Mormon and she's been keeping all the commitments we've given her with one exception. She's been struggling to come to church. For some reason she missed quite a few Sundays. So we decided to focus on the Sabbath and the importance of everything that goes on in church. We'd planned to teach about how we learn and stuff in church and how we go to renew covenants. As we taught, however, we somehow started speaking of the Holy Ghost and the covenant of baptism. We spoke of how it is essential to attend church to keep the Holy Ghost in our lives. We were 100% guided by the Spirit in what we taught and she participated and shared how much she wanted that blessing of the Holy Ghost in her life. It was quite special. She committed to come on Sunday and every Sunday after that. I think she really understood that lesson. And she came this Sunday! It was amazing. I know that the hand of the Lord was in that lesson.
We had another wonderful experience in finding. We were doorknocking close to the Christensen's house around noon. We were in one of these very small narrow streets with small little houses. As we progressed a small open garage came into view with a man working on something there next to his (fairly nice) car. For some reason I felt prompted to speak to this man about his car, instead of just approaching him about the gospel. So I spoke about where he got the car from and what he'd fixed and done on the car. He opened up and we suddenly got speaking about why we're here in Cyprus and we were able to speak of his faith in God and how God guides us in this life. He opened up quite a bit and was more that happy to have us come over to visit with him soon. I'm convinced that Heavenly Father inspired me to speak about the car first so as to allow this man to open to our message.
Sorry about the lack of pix..The upload isn't working today. I'll compensate next week.
We met with San, from Cameroon, who's been learning for quite some time on and off. She'd been doing fairly well in reading the Book of Mormon and she's been keeping all the commitments we've given her with one exception. She's been struggling to come to church. For some reason she missed quite a few Sundays. So we decided to focus on the Sabbath and the importance of everything that goes on in church. We'd planned to teach about how we learn and stuff in church and how we go to renew covenants. As we taught, however, we somehow started speaking of the Holy Ghost and the covenant of baptism. We spoke of how it is essential to attend church to keep the Holy Ghost in our lives. We were 100% guided by the Spirit in what we taught and she participated and shared how much she wanted that blessing of the Holy Ghost in her life. It was quite special. She committed to come on Sunday and every Sunday after that. I think she really understood that lesson. And she came this Sunday! It was amazing. I know that the hand of the Lord was in that lesson.
We had another wonderful experience in finding. We were doorknocking close to the Christensen's house around noon. We were in one of these very small narrow streets with small little houses. As we progressed a small open garage came into view with a man working on something there next to his (fairly nice) car. For some reason I felt prompted to speak to this man about his car, instead of just approaching him about the gospel. So I spoke about where he got the car from and what he'd fixed and done on the car. He opened up and we suddenly got speaking about why we're here in Cyprus and we were able to speak of his faith in God and how God guides us in this life. He opened up quite a bit and was more that happy to have us come over to visit with him soon. I'm convinced that Heavenly Father inspired me to speak about the car first so as to allow this man to open to our message.
Sunday
was wonderful this week. We had a great Sacrament meeting. One of our
recent converts, Daniel from Nigeria, blessed the sacrament for the
first time in his life and he also shared his testimony with the
congregation. President Freestone came to Larnaca for church. He came to
Cyprus for interviews with the missionaries during the week. My
interview with him was great. We spoke mostly about going home xD...
Anyway,
he shared a great message about he Book of Mormon. He shared his
testimony and taught us about it's importance in the gathering of
Israel. He also shared how reading the Book of Mormon will bless us in
our lives. He said "The more we read [the Book of Mormon], the more we
will recognize the Spirit"! I know that this is true. He was speaking
under the influence of the Spirit when he shared that. May we all follow
that admonition and read the Book of Mormon daily and as often as we
can. We WILL be blessed.Sorry about the lack of pix..The upload isn't working today. I'll compensate next week.
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