Hello All,
My week was really good this week. We worked really
hard. The Zone Leaders challenged us to see who could get the most proselyting
hours and whoever lost has to buy the others Lunch. Unfortunately though we tied
with 51 proselyting hours. We accomplished this by going on splits with the
members a lot. We taught heaps of lessons and we also tracted and contacted
heaps. We definitely saw many miracles, but we don't know how we are going to
work out lunch with the zone leaders. We were able to visit and share messages
to 14 Less Active families and we hope that we will be able to teach them some
more to help them come back to church, and we are also working with a couple of
part member families, and we are hoping to set a couple of baptismal dates soon.
I will talk about a couple miracles we saw this week.
We started
teaching this man named Reza. He is from Iran and barely understands English.
It has been pretty hard teaching him, but we used pamphlets and the Book of
Mormon in Arabic and Persian. He is starting to understand what we are teaching
him. He is looking to join Christianity because in Iran he owned oil and had
lots of money, and the Muslim people would take his oil and his money and then
throw him in jail. So he found a way to get out of the middle east and come to
Australia. We invited him to pray about the things we taught him, and he
agreed, so we are hoping that the spirit can touch him and we will be able to
help him and his wife progress.
We also taught Chris this week. (
The man I contacted on the bench) and he is really good! He and his partner are
both interested and we taught him the plan of salvation and I felt promised to
focus on the Atonement and tell him how he can repent and return to live with God
and Jesus Christ. So I briefly taught Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the
Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end. He said that we wanted to be
baptized, which made me happy and was a great surprise, but the only problem is
we cant set a date with him until he either separates from his partner, or if
they get married. But I am really looking forward to teaching them and helping
them progress.
Finding wasn't too fruitful this week, but we will
keep at it. We are hoping to bring some less actives back to church. We have
been working with a less active family that came back to church a couple of
months ago, and they helped us find another less active family who also wants to
come back to church.