This week was another good one! There were so many miracles it will be hard to include them all in this email so I’ll try my best to include the best ones! We tried contacting all of the people we met last week, but we only caught a few people home. We set up some appointments for this week, so we are excited to see what comes from those! We did have a follow up lesson with Ethan. We met with him this past Thursday night, and taught him The Restoration lesson. The Spirit was so strong throughout the lesson, and he had a lot of questions. We were able to answer his questions, and invited him to read and pray about The Book Of Mormon, and to ask God specifically if it was true. He said he would, and we are planning on meeting with him again this week with our amazing ward mission leader! It should be awesome!
We had another solid lesson with our investigator Nyssa! She has been hard to get in contact in the past, but lately we have been able to meet with her and teach her! We read with her 2 Nephi 31, which is when Nephi tells why Jesus Christ was baptized. We had a good conversation about that, and taught her how important it is to follow His example and be baptized by someone holding His priesthood authority. We also explained to her how receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost is such a blessing that our Father in Heaven has blessed us with. She asked why it is that important? So we were able to explain how everyone is born with the Light if Christ. Everyone can discern and feel the Holy Ghost touch their spirits, but once we have the Gift of the Holy Ghost we can have the Holy Ghost with us 100% of the time as long as we are living worthy of it. We had Elder Nally invite her to be baptized, and she said that she is open to it, but wants to read and learn more before she fully commits to it. We explained to her that it would be a goal, not a set in stone date, that we can work towards. She said she doesn’t feel comfortable setting it right now, but she will in the future. We know that as we continue to work with her on her conversion process, she will become more comfortable with being baptized! Can’t wait to continue to teach her!
Yesterday was honestly amazing! We went on exchanges with the Spanish Elders, and I was with Elder Nally and Elder Berkabile for the day. We had a pretty good day out finding and contacting people. We were able to give another new investigator, an older lady named Maggie, a large print copy of The Book Of Mormon and The Bible. She was so grateful we stopped by! The real miracles came before we had dinner and after dinner. Before dinner we were out Tracting, and we found this really nice lady named Janine. She accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon and she said her and her husband would be open to having us come back! She seems really interested, so we were excited about that! We had to stop by the post office for Elder Berkabile to pick up a package. While he was picking up his package, we started talking with an atheist lady. We asked her if she knew anything about The Book Of Mormon and she said she had seen the play. We laughed about that, and asked if she wanted to find out from the actual source what The Book Of Mormon really is? After the great conversation, as we were walking out, she accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon. We invited her to check it out and read from it, then to pray and ask if it is true. Hopefully someday she will read it! After dinner we went Tracting for the rest of the night. It was pretty cold, but we knew it would be worth it! We talked with a lot of people in the apartments. One lady, Kira, was out smoking and we started to talk with her. She expressed to us how she hasn’t been treated kindly by some other people sharing their religion with her going door to door. She said she was out smoking and another set of missionaries from another church came by with their little kids and spit at her because she was smoking..... She told us she was grateful that we were nice to her and talked with her. She said we could come back and talk more with her another time! Another lady, Holly, was walking up to her apartment and we started talking with her. After she accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon, we asked if we could come by and share more about what we believe. She said she is home Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays, and to come by anytime! In an hour and a half we were able to hand out seven copies of The Book Of Mormon! What a HUGE miracle! It was honestly ridiculous how many people showed interest and wanted us to come back to share more with them about Jesus Christ and what we believe! The blessings and miracles that we see out in the mission field are incredible, and it’s amazing to see the Lord’s hand throughout our work each and every day! I absolutely love it!
In my studies this past week, I read in Mormon 9:18-20 which says,
18 And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many mighty miracles? And there were many mighty miracles wrought by the hands of the apostles.
19 And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
20 And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust.
Yesterday was a manifestation to me that miracles are wrought upon us in our day, but as it says in these scriptures, we have to exhibit faith in order for miracles to occur. If we stop believing in miracles, they won’t occur, but if we continue in our Faith, never ceasing to believe, then we will se so many mighty miracles throughout our lives! I can truly testify that if you have Faith in our Savior Jesus Christ, read from The Book Of Mormon daily, and trust in Him continually, then you will see and be able to recognize His hand in your lives every single day! I hope you all have a great week this week, that is full of miracles! Love you guys!
Love
Elder Bailey
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