We met with their investigator Shala that night. She is super religious and her husband is a less active member, but we taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was probably the most powerful lesson i've been in. The spirit filled the room right when we started. Shala had the most amazing story and was being prepared for this moment to learn the Gospel. This summer, she developed something worse than MS, I don't remember what it is called, but she suddenly lost all her eye sight one day. They luckily had a family friend they know who is one of the best eye doctors in the country treat her. They had to stick a tub by her heart and separate the plasma from her blood every other day for a long time, but it saved her eye sight. She still has fuzzy vision, but it was a miracle. She is so amazing, she had two boys ages 4 and 2, and this thing she has is something that can't be treated, and at anytime, it can do something to her spine and make her completely paralyzed, but will never know until it happens. Everything made so much sense to her. She was baptized as a baby, but only with water on the forehead. She said the one thing she was struggling with was understanding why she needed to be baptized again, but when we explained why we are baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority and when we are completely emerged in the water, we are "reborn" and it represents our old life being buried, and coming up new, taking upon ourselves Christ and following him in this life she said it hit home. She started crying and said, "Before our lesson, I felt like I wasn't ready to go to your church, but know I know that I am ready and I want to come." The spirit can do amazing things when you allow it to speak through you.
Investigators:
Coree is doing great, he came to church and is reading a chapter a day.
Jordan agreed to stop smoking Marijuana! He has changed so much in these past couple weeks. He is going to be baptized on the 24th and we are so excited. The only thing in the way of him being baptized is making sure he is totally off smoking. He is working really hard, keep praying for him:)
Ze is doing great, his family came from china for Chinese new year and couldn't come to church this week.
We picked up two new investigators, Katie, who was a potential and is super nice, and we tracted into Corina. Corina is super cool, she met a Mormon a while back and they talked for a good hour about things. They exchanged numbers, but they lost contact, then we showed up at her door! She has been questioning what she believes in, but knows there is a God. We are excited to see where things go!
A guy named Jacob reached out to us and wanted to interview us for his school project. He said missionaries came to his door a few months ago, and it has been in the back of his mind ever since. He said when this project came up, he was like, well this is a great opportunity to understand more about Mormons. It was super cool, we were able to explain a lot about the restoration and about missions, he said that he would love to keep learning since we couldn't share everything in one lesson haha. But it was awesome!
2 Nephi 4 has been sticking out to me lately, Nephi is pretty much depressed because of the wretched man that he is and his iniquities. But he trusts in the Lord, and looks back at his life and gives gratitude to all the Lord has blessed him with. He is the best example of not blaming God for all the hard times, but giving thanks to all he has been delivered from. He asked God that his soul will no longer droop in sin, he asks the Lord, "Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin?" (2 NE. 4:31) I love this so much, Nephi knows that if he trembles when he gets close to sinning, if he will be able to catch himself before he falls, Christ won't have to feel those sins. As we plead with the Lord to help us strive to avoid sin, we will see our desire to follow Christ grow, and be more aware of the things we keep falling short of. I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!
Love
Sister Stokes
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