This past week has been absolutely amazing and filled with miracles! It's always a good week when children of God get baptized :)
Monday was zone p-day and standard training meeting which was a blast! Our zone leaders taught us a lot about CPR (Church, Prayer, Read) and how to help our investigators better develop faith through receiving revelation.
Tuesday we handed out 7 Book of Mormons and got tons of potentials! We also found a new investigator named Marilyn. #Miracles She's so awesome and receptive! We found her through tracting in a part of our area that hasn't been worked in a while. We were able to teach her the Restoration and the spirit was so strong. When we asked her to say the closing prayer, she protested because she was afraid she might start crying. But she said it anyways and it was a beautiful prayer :) The spirit was definitely there. She's been meeting with the JW's but she says that their teachings don't all make sense to her. She agreed to baptism and hopefully we can get her to church this coming week.
Wednesday we had a zone leadership meeting in the morning. In the afternoon we ended up doing some tracting. The very last house we tried someone finally answered the door and was willing to talk with us so that was a cool miracle :) In the evening we visited Halle and Kayley so we could teach them the rest of the lessons they needed in order to be baptized.
Thursday we visited the recent convert family, the Smiths. They are so solid and I love them so much! We had a good lesson with them and they are doing awesome! The dad and the cousin were able to receive the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday and we are making plans to take them to the temple soon to do some baptisms for their family members. Before dinner we visited Halle and Kayley in order to go over the baptismal interview questions with them so they would be ready for the interviews on Friday. After dinner we had a member come out with us because we had a lesson set up with a media referral we received a while back. The appointment fell through so we tried a bunch of other people with no luck. But an hour later, the media referral called us and apologized for missing the appointment. We asked if we could come over right now and he said sure. So we were able to go and teach him the restoration. He is a really good guy and has lots of good questions. Not sure how interested he is in joining the church but he definitely wants to learn more and plans on reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.
Friday I got to go on exchanges with one of our zone leaders in their area. I had a blast and learned lots from him. We had a pretty funny experience too while we were walking around trying to talk to people. We talked to this lady and she turned out to be pretty interested. We gave her a BoM and got her phone number. We then called the phone number so that she would have our number as well. Haha bad idea. Her boyfriend answered the phone (apparently they share the phone) and he demanded to speak with her. Turns out they had just gotten into a fight and she had run away. So we gave her the phone and it was just super awkward from that time forward. But hey, God led us to her for a reason so hopefully she is able to learn more about the restored gospel :)
Saturday Elder Vincent wasn't feeling too great so we were only able to teach one lesson in the afternoon. But in the evening Halle and Kayley were able to be baptized! Everything went well and they had lots of family and friends who showed up to support them. It was awesome!
Sunday was fantastic! Elder Vincent and I got to confirm Halle and Kayley. We didn't have any investigators come to church though so that was a bummer. After church we had a lesson with Marilyn. We were able to read the BoM with her and answer some more of her questions :) Then we had lunch/dinner/correlation with our ward mission leader and skyped home so that was super fun :) Best Mothers Day Ever!!
In Honor of Mothers Day, I'd to share some of my favorite motherly verses from the Book of Mormon.
47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it."
Alma 56:46-48
20 And as the remainder of our army were about to give way before the Lamanites, behold, those two thousand and sixty were firm and undaunted.
21 Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had taught them."
Alma 57:19-21
I'm so grateful for mothers, especially for my mother. She has taught me so many things throughout my life and has helped me to strengthen my testimony through her valiant example. The older I get, the more I appreciate all that mothers do. Thanks for all you do Mom, I love you! Happy Mothers Day everyone!
Love, Elder Larsen
Mosiah 4:11-12
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