Words can not express how grateful I am to have a prophet direct this church. He gave a short talk, but how powerful was his words and reminder of the Book of Mormon! I noticed a lot of the General Authorities also talked about the Holy Ghost and how special a gift this is.
Through the Holy Ghost we can receive guidance, comfort and be warned. On the mission this is always a big turning point for investigators as they realize that this gift can only be received once they are baptized and make that sacred, holy covenant with God.
I must say the talk by Joaquin A. Costa needs to be printed out and handed to every investigator on this earth. I know me and sister Grover plan on giving it to all of ours :)
We saw lots of little miracles this week that happened as a result of us being at the right place at the right time!
First one.. We were praying on where to go finding and decided on North Point. As we were finding, no one was willing to listen at all so we began to be confused as to why the Lord had made us both feel the need to go to North Point. Well as we were walking to the MTR, we hear a couple behind us speaking Mandarin so what do we do.. start speaking (well really we were shouting) in mandarin so they could hear us also speak. They of course, started talking to us and asking us why we spoke Mandarin, which led to the perfect opportunity to start a conversation about the gospel! We ended up walking all the way to Causeway Bay with them (about an hour walk) just talking to them about the gospel and getting to know them. We were able to get their number as the girl seemed very interested in learning more!
The next one, we again were deciding where to go finding and the first spot was not succesfull as there was only Popo who could not speak Mandarin. So we went to a different park and we run into a member from the English branch and his gf. When we saw him he says, "Sisters do you have time to talk?" Anyways, he and his girlfriend (who is not a member who he very obviously wants to convert) were literally JUST talking about sister missionaries when they saw us. We talked about the gospel for a little bit then bore our testimonies of the book of Mormon and then left as he wanted to talk to her about what she thought alone and then would talk to us if she wanted to start taking the lessons!
Two miracles that we are not sure if they will go anywhere, but cool experiences and blessings even if they don't. When we are following the promptings of the spirit and not second guessing ourselves (as was mentioned in conference) we will not be led astray!
Lastly, as we were watching the second session of Saturday conference the Assistants came up to us and was like "what are you doing today?" Our reply: "Watching conference..?" He goes, "Well do you want to teach a visitor?" Of course we said yes! So we taught this surprise visitor all the lessons Saturday night in 3 and a half hours (that goes to show how prepared she was). On Sunday, we watched all sessions of conference plus women's session and her baptism immediately followed. It was a very busy past couple of days, but I would not trade them for the world.
Every time I have the privilege to teach a visitor my testimony grows so much as their faith, dedication, and desire to this gospel is unbelievable! I wish I could share more facts about what is happening up there, but unfortunately we are not allowed too for safety reasons. Just know this is the Lords work and he is hastening it! :)
This week I would challenge us all to, as Elder Yoon Hwan Choi says, "Look up". It is hard to feel satisfied and feel of our Heavenly Father's love for us when we are looking around us at others. May we all be able to look up and feel of the perfect love our Savior and Heavenly father have for us. I know that He lives and I know that He has a perfect, unconditional love!
我愛你們Sister Loo
Pictures from her baptism!p.s. I promise I have not gained that much weight.. its the horizontal stripes lol
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