This is my first week with my new
companion Sister Browning. I’m so lucky,
to have her as a companion! Funny story, Sister Browning was called to help finish
my training me and was happy to do so but I’m finished with my training
already. Even though she isn’t my trainer I am still learning a lot from
her. She is very in tune with the
Spirit. She says things like they are
and is very honest. I admire that.
I have been able to read the book “Jesus
the Christ”. It’s amazing to know that
we fought in the pre-earth live for the chance to come to earth, gain a body
and learn from our hardships here.
We had a woman come up to us asking
for help to get baptized. She has taken
the lessons before but didn’t go to her baptism. We teach
her in her empty apartment that doesn’t have electricity. We are helping her understand how to
recognize the Spirit. While teaching her
we found out that you can still feel the spirit while hearing Joseph Smiths
first vision in English as well as Spanish.
Though our investigator is Native and doesn’t speak Spanish we felt
impressed to have the member (return Missionary from Peru) who was there
helping us teach to share the first vision in Spanish. We had to pay close
attention to how it made us feel and the Spirit was just as strong in that hot,
empty, barren apartment.
Also this week we felt like we
should go to a particular part of town, where we knocked on a woman’s door that
apparently needed to see us that day. Her dog had died that morning. She and
her sons were very attached to that dog. They prayed for the first time in a
long time. She felt good and peaceful
inside and now wants to come back to church again. God works in Mysterious ways
as their dogs death brought them closer to Christ.
Another neat experience from this
week was when I felt the need to see a particular sister we had been referred
to go see. It was discouraging to find that
no one was home at her apartment. We went and tried some other doors in the
area and ran into a woman who had a life changing experience that day. She went
to her brother’s wedding where her anti-Christian relatives came to her during the
wedding and asked her what that strange feeling they were experiencing was. She
testified to them that it is the Holy Ghost. She said she was grateful that we
had come by and that she could tell someone how amazing it was. She now has the
desire to become active at church again. She is considering serving a mission
herself. We also found out her father was one of the first Missionaries to
serve on the reservation and he also taught Navajo at the Missionary Training
Center. He had died a few years back and she said she had felt closer to him
that day. It is so neat to hear such wonderful testimonies as a Missionary.
