Dear Family,
Can you believe it's already been 8 weeks since you dropped me off at the
MTC foyer? Crazyness! It feels like it's been FOREVER. Let me tell you some
stories from this week:
We found an old man to teach but he seems pretty wary of us. He is a
Lutheran and was all set to bash us down at his doorstep but we shared a
message about Christ, and spoke of Christ and our love for Him and he
changed and decided he would like to hear more. But he wanted to bring a
friend from his church along with him, so he is still wary of us.. So we went back a few days later for our appointment and he was all "Didn't you get my message? I asked if we could do it another time?" and honestly we didn't, so we told him that and he let us in anyway! Didn't get too much gospel talking done because he is an old widower and likes to talk a LOT. But it was okay. We'll probably see him again in a few weeks.
We are teaching J still! We finally managed to get a lesson with her
this last Tuesday and we taught her the restoration! So we shared the Joseph Smith story and right away she said "I know he is a prophet of God!" so we committed her to baptism and she said yes, but she has to give up smoking! So we set out a plan for her and are trying to visit her most days to help her give up. She is SO excited to be baptized, we just need lots of prayers that she'll make it three weeks without smoking. She is about 50 and has been smoking her whole life. So we answered all her questions and she understood and LOVED IT!!! Then at the next lesson she said she didn't agree that there is more than one heaven and asked that we show her in the Bible where it mentions three degrees of glory. So we say we can show her that and flip it open to 1 Corinthians 15 and there's her answer. It talks about baptism for the dead and about celestial, terrestrial and telestial bodies! She was so impressed that we were able to answer her and clear up her confusion.
We took B and H to the Visitors' Centre to go through the God's Plan for His Family exhibit and Bro and Sister K the fellowshippers brought two of their children, (both adults, one is 30 and one is 20). We went through the exhibition and the Spirit was SO STRONG. By the end when the movie finished all the girls were just in tears and we talked about families together. B was crying so much and was like "I don't know why I'm crying!!!" and we were like WE DO! Haha that's the best thing a missionary wants to hear! We taught her the whole plan of salvation in a teaching room in the VC and she liked it and
we committed her to a date. So now we have two investigators on date to be baptized. It's the best feeling ever when they say they will be baptized! Then we looked at the lights around the Temple and the Nativity that has Mormon Tabernacle songs coming from it and a President Monson message! It was a great evening. Then we went back to their house for cookies and milk. It was a good evening! I love being at the VC and the Temple, the Spirit is so strong there and I can't wait until I get there to serve!
The S family have done well this week. We had what started out as a horrible
lesson with them Tuesday. They thought we were trying to make them get
baptized by reading 3 Nephi 11 with them but really we chose that chapter
because it's the first one where Christ appears! They took it the wrong way
and told us that they don't think the Mormon church is true etc and Wilford
Woodruff was a DISGRACE and I wanted to be sick etc etc haha. But then
something happened as we addressed his concerns, and the Spirit touched him and he said "But you know....Jospeh Smith did say that the gospel would be preached to every nation...our church didn't do that but yours is...and he did say there would be temples...and that it would never leave the earth
but ours has.....is it enough to get baptized by faith alone or do you have to know its true?" and we were like what on earth just happened hahah and we were like of course you can be baptized just by faith and he wanted to go to watch a baptism first "because we might be doing that ourselves soon!"
haha it was crazy to witness it!!! Then we've seen them twice since then and no more results other than that he hasn't received an answer yet. He went to church with his family and LOVED IT! He said he's never felt the Spirit so strong and that the organization of it was impeccible and he agrees with everything that was taught. I was so happy. My tesitmony of the Prophet has had to grow a lot this week so that I can testify with a surety that President Monson truly is a prophet of God! And so I asked him to read his talk "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee" and pray to know if he is a prophet of God. He said he would. I'm nervous for his answer but we just have faith that he will recognize what God is trying to tell him. I tried to point out the fact that he felt the Spirit so much at church might be God trying to answer it for him already but he wasn't having any of it! So we'll see.
Thanksgiving was good. We did half an hour of prayers of thanksgiving on our
own in the morning and it's amazing how fast it goes. I was just getting
into it. The biggest things I was thankful for was each of my family
members and my Saviour. Everything else is great but that is what it comes
down to for me. Then we watched Special Witnesses of Christ and then we
went to a family for dinner and the afternoon then to another family for
dessert in the evening. We had a great time and just laughed and talked and
relaxed. It was a great holiday.
The highlight of the week was Jayden and Payton's baptism. They are so
sweet and I'm sad that we can't teach them much more but it's always
beautiful to see someone you love entering the waters of baptism to be
eternally united with their Heavenly Father.
Yesterday a British couple fed us shepherd's pie and trifle!! It was good!!
This is all my news for this week! Keep me in your prayers and I'll keep
you in mine ;)
Lots of love from St George
Sister Nicholls
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