Dear Family and
Friends,
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| With Brother Xu Taking Us Back to Our Area |
Halou from 名間!!
(mingjian) Another week come and gone!!!
Too fast!!! This week
was miracle week. haha.
The branch president was right when he said that there are just miracles that
happen here. haha... they just come out of no where. Sometimes I really don't feel deserving of them haha,
but we are trying to work as hard as we can to help these people and the Lord
is really backing us up!
Here is how a normal day goes. We set a plan for
the next day, try to fill the day with what we feel the Lord would have us
do... and then nothing goes according to plan! hahaha... its almost like he is
just up there like... nope... that isnt who I want you to see now... Go here!
haha so we start tracting or calling and then miracles happen. haha!
Another day we went to 水里(shuili)
and had a bunch of lessons set up.... well it rained.. and the
people hate
rain... hahah so they no showed. So we went and visited a member L,
and then we went to go eat dinner with him when out of no where he said.
Lets go here. I want you guys to meet someone. It turned out to be
a former who was really cool. We sat down with her and talked then out of
nowhere this lady and her kids showed up. They were talking about her
husband in the hospital and stuff and somehow it came up that we were the new
missionaries here. Then she told us that yesterday for the first time she
had learned a little about Christianity, with another church. Out of
nowhere she decided to come to this lady's house and ran into us. She
told us that she really feeling like Christianity is right, and that it was God
who set it up that we could be there together. We had only been talking
for about 10 min and started talking about prayer, and somehow baptism came
up. So I just felt like it was right and we invited her to be baptized
the following month. She said yes. It was a miracle. We got her
contact info and stuff and are meeting with her this week. It was amazing.
The next day we had plans to go to 集集...(jiji) and sure enough we got
there, it was raining of course! haha and we got fanged! haha (canceled on)... haha. We ended up talking to these
two neighbors one old guy who is so nice to us. After that we went tracting
because all our plans fell through... we went to this one little part of town
and started. hahah and were just getting rejected... until we came to
this one house and before we even said who we were he invited us in!
hahah it turns out he doesn't believe in God, but we got him to commit to
pray and ask if god exists. That was a big miracle.
After that we called M and she said that her oldest son was home
so we could come over to their house instead. So we did. We got
there and met her son and just sat for like 45 min ate and talked. Then
we decided to share the Joseph Smith video and right when we wanted to start
her husband who is against her getting baptized walked in. So we
introduced ourselves and the video and watched it. The spirit was there
and i think it touched his heart. We invited them to church after and they all said they would
come.
So we went to church and it was raining and the husband
didn't show up... but M and her son did. After church we sat with
them and had a small lesson, we invited him to be batpized on the same day as his
mother! He said yes... hahah he then said that he was already ready!!!
hahaha!! It was awesome!! It was just a great week!!!
Today I read in 1st Nephi 8 about the tree of life.
It talks about Lehi looking far off and seeing his family and calling to them
with a LOUD VOICE. This to me is the voice of warning. Everyday we
come across friends and family we wish would come and partake of the love of
God. I think it is very important to remember that the LOUD VOICE can be
manifest not only in our words but our actions. The fruit of the tree of
life is the love of God and it is most precious. We can't afford not to
share it with those we come across and love.
I love you all so much!! Have a great week!!!
Love,
Elder Redding 洪長老
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