We moved into our new apartment it was freezing, we had to layer to keep warm. Yet again, we had an amazing week! The Lord is blessing us more than I could have ever imagined.
We picked up quite a few new investigators and are really seeing the Lord's hands in our lives and in His work in this part of the vineyard. It is amazing how He prepares people for His Gospel. Every day my testimony is strengthened so much. We set super high goals for the week and the Lord blessed us so much!
So this week our new investigators are from about every place and walk of life. Among them is a person from Germany, one from Thailand, 2 from Africa, and a nun! Crazy huh? So I'll give a little background on all of them and some of the others.
On Monday night we went to the home of Angela (the lady who was Lutheran but wants to change), well when we got there she had her 2 sons there because she wanted them to get baptized as well. Now we're just working on her husband who wants nothing to do with religion. We just need to get the husband on board. I'm so excited for them because each day they make one step closer to going to the temple and becoming sealed one day.
The next day we taught Patrick and Crescencia from Africa. They're super nice but we don't know how receptive right now. On Tuesday night we were talking to the Bishops daughter and she said that her friend, Nat, wanted to learn more about the Gospel and be baptized. He's a foreign exchange student from Thailand and is Buddhist. So we went and talked to him and he is awesome! One of his biggest concerns is that when he goes back to Thailand there won’t be any temples close by. Yesterday he asked us if it would be ok if he served a mission one day too! Crazy huh? He's going to talk to his dad and see if he can be baptized because he's only 16. It was amazing because as we taught him about Christ, a new light came into his eyes. He couldn't stop smiling. He wanted us to teach him yesterday after Sacrament Mtg. When he came up to us he brought another foreign exchange student with him. Her name is Hazel and she's from Germany. Well, at the beginning of the lesson she was atheist but not anymore. She was asking great questions and is just like a sponge soaking up everything. It is awesome! It is not by chance that they both ended up here in St. David with great families.
And the nun... I never really had met a nun before coming to St. David. There is a monastery here and one of the 2 nuns asked for us to come visit her awhile back. We've become friends and whatnot. Well, awhile back we asked her to read 3 Nephi 11. When we went by this week she hadn't read it so we decided to just read it then and there with her. She LOVED it! She thought that it was beautiful and kept wanting to read more and more. While we were there we read 3 chapters and she skimmed the next 15 or so. She kept saying things like, "this is just like my Mother's Bible." She later went on to tell us that the Bible has been translated so many times it's lost some of the beauty. A nun said this! We're excited to go and talk more with her. Everyone here in town loves her. I realized that I had a lot of misconceptions about nuns because all of my information came from the movie Sister Act.
As for our other investigators they're doing good. We're so excited for General Conference and know that we'll be so blessed when we are able to hear the Prophet's voice.
I've thought a lot about this coming weekend. We're so lucky to have the truth, to have a Prophet. Also I'm so excited for Easter. Christ is risen and we have the opportunity to share this message with everyone! What a blessing!
Well, I hope that you all have a great conference and Easter. This is definitely the Church of Jesus Christ and definitely is true! Have a great week!
Love, Hermana Anderson
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Amazing indeed! No question the Lord's hand is in this work!
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