The Power of the Spirit

Nov 18, 2013

Family

So this we a very good week. We had some very good lessons with people. here are some quick stories

Yolanda and juliana - We were visiting some names from the menos ativo list and we found these two ladys. the mom and aunt of a member. The mom is very frank and sincere in her speach. so we were also very frank and sincere. These too ladies understood the lesson so well that they were really excited to accept the invitation to be baptized, but then some things came up and none of them could go to church, so we will have to go there and remark a date, but when we were teaching clearly and very VERY frankly about the great apostasy the spirit strongly testified to these ladies until one said to us that know she understands how God feels about all of these churches.

Eliana e Familia - The Sisters had passed this contact to us. We went and visited her, she was part of the Church - Work in Restauration. She seemed nice and accepting, then her mother came into the room. She had a look on her face like we were the devil. She was trying to show us the "true doctrine" but she lost herself when we started agreeing with her, completely. We taught about the ministry and the Church of Christ and she agreed completely, we taught about authority and she agreed completely, we taught about the great apostasy and she agreed completely. Then we got the part about Joseph Smith. When we said the first vision and testified of it the spirit was so strong that this women(the mom) stood up with a confused look and tears in her eyes and left the house, we continued with her daughter and he family until she also accepted to read the book of mormon and be baptized (still without a date yet) When we went back there she had read the book of mormon (yay) and then surprised us and said that the mom was also reading it and studying the footnotes. She hadn´t prayed about it yet, but we had a good lesson talking about the restauration of authority of the priesthood. ( a first in my mission explaining this in the 2nd visit)

This is what i have learned this week. That the spirit touches people, sometimes with such force that the unbelieving will not be able to stand it. The spirit can change thoughts, open hearts and teach the truth. We someone learns restored douctrine they willl go through a change as the spirit testifies. These were the two highlights of the week. We will see how it turns out this week with these 2 families.

Also we had an opportunity to serve some members. We visited this couple and she was really sick and her dishes had piled up (like alot) so we offered to wash them, and for  the first time in my mission, she accepted our help. We washed piles of dishes in 40 minutes. this couple was so thankful and was really touched, it was a great day that day.

I am doing great. Hope this week is awesome for you all
Love 

Craigers

Cream of Açai the white is powdered milk and the brown is sweet peanuts. with strawberries and sweetened condensed milk on top. Açaí it is a super fruit. what i am eating is all natural (except for the candy toppings.) It is one of the best things in the world!