So for investigators/miracle of the week. We have two girls in their early 20's who have been our investigators for the past couple of weeks, Sue and Kris. They're awesome! They always read and pray every day and keep all their commitments....accept for church which they've only come to once. So we were in comp study talking about their lesson that night, and we both didn't feel right about teaching them what we had planned. We prayed about it and decided to follow a prompting I had recieved when we'd taught them last time to teach on Alma 32, faith, and how right now they're watering their plant with reading and praying and meeting with the missionaries, but their seed of faith is lacking the essential sunlight of church! The lesson was kind of a weird one where neither Sis. P. or I could speak very well and just couldn't seem to get out what we wanted to say. They were really standoffish when we asked them to come to church this week, but after a little digging they confessed that they've been keeping our commitments because they didn't want to dissapoint us. And kind of because they were curious about the church. Their pastor had told them that it was okay to keep meeting with us but that they can't join the church, so they've been very conflicted when trying to keep the commitments that we give them while still keeping true to the church that they'd grown up in. We left devistated! We didn't know what to do, what to teach, how we could help them want to know that this church is true and keep the commitments because they love God, not us. We decided to keep going with the lessons and start on the word of wisdom. They next day when we came back to teach Sue said the prayer, but after the prayer sister P. looked at her and said that she seemed really happy today. Sue said she was! When we asked why she said that before, they had a lot of hard things in life and that life was really hard, but lately, since they've been praying and reading the Book of Mormon, those things don't matter anymore, and that everything is okay! She said that they can see their faith growing little by little, like a seed! She's always an incredibly happy, giggly person, but that day she was glowing! It was almost liike a light switch had been flipped! It was such a neat experience. Not only were we lead to teach something that they needed to hear, but even though we fumbled through the whole thing the Holy Ghost still taught a great lesson, and you could see the effect the Holy Ghost is having on them. :) They're awesome! I'm excited to teach them again tonight! They always give us food after we teach them, even though they have so little. They're so sweet!
This week we also had a weird day where three of our awesome investigators, three women in their 20's who all live in the same house, texted us and told us that they didn't want to meet anymore. One of them had just recieved an answer to her prayers about whether or not the
Book of Mormon is true! We stopped by their house to see what was going on and had a very intersting conversation with them. One of them, Christine, had just returned from her Kampung (or village) and said that God had answered her prayers about the church and said that it wasn't true. It was a struggle, but we finally got her to tell us how her prayers and been answered. It turns out that all her family told her not to join our church and that she couldn't keep learning with us. This happens a lot when people go back to their Kampung, and it's almost funny that almost every person we teach goes back after they commit to be baptized. Satan has boring patterns. Anyway, we asked her how she felt when she read the
Book of Mormon or prayed, and she said she felt wonderful! Who do you think that feeling is from? God. What do you think that means? That it's true! .....So will you continue to learn? No. Do you want to follow Heaveny Father? Yes. Do you think He's happy with this decision? Oh definitely not. ...What??? It was really sad to see them go, but they must just need a little more time to ripen up a bit. It was a neat opportunity for both of us to give really strong testimonies of the gospel and feel the strength of the Spirit when we did that. We'll give them some time. :)
In other news we had 72 people at church yesterday! It was so great! It's a huge number for our branch! Most of them were actually members, too! It was a very happy day. :) Oh! And we had a baptism Saturday! It's for this really spunky, cute daughter of a less active who's not so less active now. :) I might have mentioned her mom before, Josephine. She's the one who's countanance is just flourishing! I love her a lot.
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