Hi family!
The time is flying by faster than ever!
We have had another miracle week.
On Monday evening we decided to try and
meet a former investigator. We went to their complex, knocked on
their door, but there was no answer. I felt like we should knock a
few more doors. So I chose a few and Sister T chose a few. We met
some nice people but none that were interested. We were about to go
and we felt we should do one more door. There was no answer, but as
we turned to go back to the car, there was a man walking by with his
dog, taking his trash out. We talked to him, and he accepted a Book
of Mormon, was interested, and set up a return appointment! His name
was Ja and he was very nice! He said "I think yall knocked on my
door!" It turns out he was the first door we had knocked (where
the former investigator used to live), but he had been sleeping. Our
knock woke him up and so he decided to take his trash out and walk
his dog. God works in mysterious ways!
On Wednesday we had Zone Conference.
Our zone and one other met and we were able to receive training from
President S and other leader missionaries (sister training leader
leaders and assistants to the president).
It was incredible and Sister T and I
learned so many things which we are working to apply in our teaching.
Friday and Saturday were finding days
for us. We spent the days knocking on streets we have never ventured
to before, and working through our area book, trying to meet
potentials and formers.
Sunday was an Easter miracle day.
Ja came to church!
Later, after church, we decided to
visit a member who lives with a nonmember. As we pulled up to their
apartment complex, the gates were closed, and we had no way of
getting in, so we decided to go to our other location first instead.
We went back to the same complex about
an hour later, and this time, the car right in front of us on the
street turned into the complex and opened the gate. (coincidence? No
way!) So we were able to enter the complex. When we arrived at the
building where the member lived...we were surprised to see the member
outside on the sidewalk, walking her dog. She was talking to her
friend who was on the second floor out on her porch! The member saw
us and said to her friend "These are my missionary friends from
church!" The member's friend, Je, told us about how they were
just talking about how instead of celebrating Easter, Je had ended up
having a funeral for her youngest son. We asked if we could share a
message with her. She said yes and invited us to come up.
We went up the stairs, found her
apartment, knocked, and she let us right in. Her granddaughter, Cr
and her friend (both young adults), were right inside the door,
watching a tv show and doing their hair. Je welcomed us into the
living room and had us sit down on the couch.
We invited the other two to join us,
but they didn't really respond. We prayed with Je and began, but I
felt like we really needed Cr and her friend to join us. We invited
them again and asked Je if they would like to join us. Finally they
came and turned the tv off. They were really the sweetest girls! We
started again with a prayer. It was Cr's father who had passed away.
In the next 45 minutes, we taught the
Plan of Salvation (which they loved and instantly accepted) and then
the Restoration. There isn't really any way to describe the
experience, except that it was exactly like the experiences outlined
in Preach My Gospel! We just followed what we had learned from Preach
My Gospel, and these three incredible ladies showed the exact
responses that Preach My Gospel teaches that prepared people will
have! They loved everything we taught them! They expressed the
feelings of love and peace they were feeling. They wanted the Book of
Mormon! Cr asked after the lesson, "what can we keep and read?
These pamphlets?" We said "Yes, but actually, we want you
to read the Book of Mormon!"
Cr said: :"Are you going to give
that book to me?" she pointed to the one we had showed her. We
said, "Yes!" She said, "Good! Otherwise I was going to
download it on my phone or get it somehow!"
All three committed to baptism on a
specific day in May. Before we even invited her, Cr said she would
come to church next Sunday. Je testified that God had sent us to
them, and Sister T testified "Yes, we know He has."
God lives! He works in mysterious ways!
I know that in comparison to His
efforts and works, ours are nothing! (The contrast between what was
accomplished in our 2 days of solid knocking and the miraculous
things he did in guiding us to these 3 of His children is so clear!)
But I know that all He asks us is that we give our best. He just asks
for our best efforts, and He does the rest. I know that it is
because Sister T and I gave our best in trying to find people to
teach that the Lord was able to guide us to and trust us with these
precious souls. I know that it is through His strength that we can do
all things and witness miracles. I'm so grateful to be a firsthand
witness of His miracles.
I know that Christ lives! I know that
He died and was resurrected, and that He lives today. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is His Church and the only church
on the earth with His authority and the FULLNESS of His gospel. We
are blessed!
Love,
Sister Greenall