Bonjour family and friends!!
This week we were contacting and we met a really cool lady from Russia. At first she wasn't very interested, but we kept talking to her and she became a little more opened. We talked with her a lot about why we are here on earth and where we are going. At the end we said a prayer with her and afterwards she looked up at us and said, "That was beautiful. I could feel some type of energy or something in the words you said." We explained to her that it was what we call "the spirit", which is a gift that God has given to us for multiple reasons; but one reason is to help us know that He is there and He hears our prayers. We invited her to try praying that night on her own and we were able to testify that we know from our own experiences that God will be listening to her prayer. I love this following quote on prayer..."Pray to the Lord with the expectation of answers. … The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the telephone and ordering groceries--we place our order and hang up. We need to meditate, contemplate, think of what we are praying about and for and then speak to the Lord as one man speaketh to another. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord..” Heavenly Father does answer our prayers, we just need to make sure we are doing our part in order to receive the answers.
This week we were contacting and we met a really cool lady from Russia. At first she wasn't very interested, but we kept talking to her and she became a little more opened. We talked with her a lot about why we are here on earth and where we are going. At the end we said a prayer with her and afterwards she looked up at us and said, "That was beautiful. I could feel some type of energy or something in the words you said." We explained to her that it was what we call "the spirit", which is a gift that God has given to us for multiple reasons; but one reason is to help us know that He is there and He hears our prayers. We invited her to try praying that night on her own and we were able to testify that we know from our own experiences that God will be listening to her prayer. I love this following quote on prayer..."Pray to the Lord with the expectation of answers. … The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the telephone and ordering groceries--we place our order and hang up. We need to meditate, contemplate, think of what we are praying about and for and then speak to the Lord as one man speaketh to another. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord..” Heavenly Father does answer our prayers, we just need to make sure we are doing our part in order to receive the answers.
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| After 6 months as companions.. I guess I have no choice but to love this girl! |
We
also had a lesson with a lady in our ward who is a return missionary
but hasn't been "active" in the church for a long time. We decided that
we would just share a scripture with her. We decided to share one our
our favorites! Alma 5:26 "And now behold, I say unto you, my
brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt
to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?" We
were a little worried that this scripture would be a little too direct
for her, but it actually ended up being just what she needed! She
started opening up to us about how she remembers that she used to feel
the joy the comes from the gospel but now she says she feels like she,
"goes to church empty, and comes home empty as well." We talked her
about how we can't expect church to be the only thing that refills us
spiritually for the week. There are things that we need to do daily to
feel of this joy and that will help us be better spiritually prepared
for church. I think everyone can remember a time in their lives when
they have just gone through the motions of going to church and didn't
feel like they were getting much of it. Like always, the Lord expects us
to do our part and spiritually prepare ourselves to have a spiritual
experience at church. If all we do for our spirituality is go to church
on Sunday, that will never be enough. If we truly want to feel of the
joy that comes from being converted, we must make a conscious effort
everyday. We invited her to start by something simple. We asked her to
start saying family prayers every night and promised her that as she
does the "little things" she would start feeling that same joy that she
used to feel.
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This week we had a lesson get cancelled, so we decided to go knock on some doors instead. We only had knocked on a couple doors when we had a lady invite us in! We sat down, drank herbal tea, ate chocolate and bore testimony of the Restoration of the gospel. It was absolutely amazing! I love when something doesn't work out, Heavenly Father always has something better in store. When she invited us in she told us she was only "interested" in discussing. We were able to "discuss" for about one hour and clear up some misunderstandings she had about our church. She listened really intently and asked good questions. At the end, she was still not necessarily "interested" in learning more, but she said something to us that was really interesting. She said, "When I invited you in, I didn't invite you in to learn more about Christ. I invited you in to learn more about you, but I think you have a little bit of Christ in you, and because of that, maybe I have learned a little more about Him."
Wow, I feel so blessed to be a missionary!! Church is true. Have a great week!!
Love, Sœur Johnson
Soeur precieuse en Christ,if you really love God and Truth,it is important you too come to know a well known documented truth(even though cheaters try to deny it by telling silly tales),that is the book of Mormon is totally worthless(Never a Tribe of Israel went to the Americas to give birth to the Natives-the DNA test denies it-... and far less THE LORD JESUS... Truly,the so called original manuscript with the "pearl of great price" were mere lists of obituaries written in the old language of Egypt,which mister smith had purchased in a library... and the "apostles" in Salt Lake know it well;by the way,'cause mister smith was a freemason,many rituals followed in the temples come from masonry). We have,already,a perfect testament,which you can find it in the GOSPEL(Galatians 1,6-9,Jude 3-4). May the Grace and the Love of our Heavenly father find a warm welcome in your soul,so that his holy Spirit can protect you fro deception,sin and hell(Luke 12,1-12);until the day-if,you turn earnestly and with humility to our Lord JESUS to get his personal revelation with his forgiveness and holy freedom;and,so,to taste his fellowship with his peace and mercy-you too' ll enter the joy of Paradise. Dans l'amour de JESUS et de la Verite`
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