Hello Everyone!
Greetings from
I-can't-believe-how-many-people-missed-church-to-watch-the-broncos-game-and-everyone-is-so-obsessed-with-Peyton-Manning-
Colorado! That's right people... my team... we are going to the
Superbowl... and I’m so annoyed. Haha. I have loved football ALL my
life... but being a missionary, it's like .. that's what I'm competing with
here... I'm going to start trying to draw gospel principals out of football so
that I can use it as a door approach or something... "Hey how's it going,
I'm Sister Hunter! How about those Broncos?.... so... yeah.... the
Gospel?" hahaha. I'll fine tune it. Just wait.
We had a week of miracles. We found 5 new
investigators and tried to talk to EVERYONE in our path... It is amazing how
many people the Lord is preparing.. The Lord really is hastening His work.
:)
We were able to teach Patricia. I just LOVE
her! She loved the message of the restoration and was soo humbled and
grateful to get a Book of Mormon for herself that she could read. I was
FILLED with love for that sweet woman. She was planning on coming to church,
but had to go to the emergency room instead... so sad!
We had for some reason planned to see an active family
in the ward... (headed there we weren't sure why we had...) and we shared
the restoration with them. I asked the wife what role the Book of Mormon
played in her conversion to the Gospel... she said "I have never gotten
that feeling that everyone talks about... but the other day I was listening to
it, and instead of just being a story, it felt like it was speaking to
me.." She started to cry. She said "I guess that is my answer.
I feel it. I now know it is true. It took you coming and asking me to
realize it, but I know!" Wow!!!! I rarely see someone gain a
testimony of the Book of Mormon literally right in front of my eyes. It was
such a sweet experience... So I believe in planning... we were right where the
Lord needed us.
We had a crummy experience yesterday to go with that
goodness. Someone came up to us and was talking to us. He knew we were
sister missionaries... into the convo he talked about how he had removed
himself from the religion (which is fine... no worries..) But then he started
telling us Anti-Mormon literature and bashing our religion, church leaders, and
members. It was such an icky feeling... Sister Makasini started getting
offended that he would do that to her, but I just had to calmly grab her and
walk away... So sad. All day, I INVITE people to learn for
themselves, and to ask God if it is true. I invite them to come to Christ and
to use His Atonement. I never slam anyone's religion. I never
convince by hate and slander. And for someone to do that to me, it was
hurtful. I know the Lord is Hastening His work, and so is the devil.
All of our testimonies WILL be tried. We will have questions we may not have
immediate answers to, but I cannot deny the Spirit I have felt as I have read
the Book of Mormon and prayed. Simple as that.
My invitation to you all is to read, and pray. Simple
as that. We can never know too much truth from the Lord... so "ask
and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto
you."
I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that He loves
everyone... even people who hate on me and slam doors in my face... it's ok...
they will know some day. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I love
it and will testify of it til the day I die... and then some. I know that
God loves us and speaks to us today as we pray to Him and seek to listen.
I know that He will win. The Savior WILL win.
And I'm proud to wear His Jersey. That's the game that truly matters.
Onward Christian Soldiers!
From me to you, Kinzie Lou
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