What up y’all! Back at it again, not sure how often I'm gonna remember to write emails, I mean I've only been out like four months so I'm still relatively new but talking to other missionaries they haven't written emails in months. However I'm gonna try my best to keep the emails rolling in.
Well you heard it, miracles do exist! It's kinda funny because my last email I was writing about how I wanted to see miracles and I wanted to be more trustworthy so that God could do his work through me. Turns out he got that email too and he didn't hesitate to reply back.
Tuesday was an awesome day, we had a lesson with the girl we are teaching and we went into the lesson prepared to invite her to baptism. Come to find out she is having some family matters to deal with so we changed our minds and tried to focus on prayer, cause we've been trying to get her to pray about baptism so that she can recieve the answer from God for herself. We ended up having a great lesson about faith in prayer and faith for others in prayer. She enjoyed it and then the member we were at asked if she would give the closing prayer. I friggen love it when the investigator prays especially her because for one, she gives the greatest prayers ever. Honestly, one thing I'm working on is more effective prayers and she just knocks the bl out of the park. She even at the end of her prayer, said to God that she one day hopes to become a member of our church! She is so solid and wants this in her life a lot, she is just trying to balance her family into it all.
Wednesday we finally had some success knocking!! We visited a lot of people then went to go knock some doors in the area. It was honestly our most productive day because we literally got in contact with so many people and found a new person. We knocked this one ladies door and she accepted a Book of Mormon and wanted to find a church to come to so we said we would love to have her at church, so now we are jusy trying to act on that. It's just so relaxing to get back to seeing success in my efforts, for a while there it felt like I wasn't being effective, till today. Then after that we had an awesome lesson with our guy we are teaching and actually put him back on date!! It was epic, we aren't sure if that will go through but we are gonna try our hardest to get him baptized on the day we planned, which is the 28th by the way.
Thursday was another crazy awesome day, it was a drag for a while since we had weekly planning but after that we went out knocking. We were knocking some doors but i swear something was off, it didn't feel right. We weren't in any danger but it just didn't feel like we were in the right place. So we get back in the car and I'm trying to find a new place to knock and I finally find a place we could go knocking but as we were driving I just didn't feel like it was right, in fact it didn't feel like knocking was the right thing I needed to be doing. So I just was pondering trying to find things to do, I decided I wanted to see if a member was home but he wasn't, so then we parked and I said a little prayer in my heart. I then got the impression to visit a guy we were in contact with. So we drove over there and knocked his door and some guy poked his head put the window above us and we asked for the guy, he said he would go get him then asked us if we were church people, we said yes and he said that he's been wanting to find a church, like a nice church. Then the guy came out and we had a good conversation with him and he said we could come back another time. Then the guy who poked his head out wanted our church address, then he just said hold on and came downstairs. We then had an amazing conversation with him, invited him to church, taught about the Book Of Mormon and prayer and gave him a Book Of Mormon and invited him to read it, his reaction was what made my day. He said smiling really big, I can't wait to read this, I'm so excited. It was so awesome and I know for a fact that God put us in the spot at that time so we could talk with this guy. We got his number and he said as soon as his car gets fixed, he's coming to church. Miracles do happen and when they happen it just testifys to you that this is God's work and this is his children and I am giving my efforts to go so he can use me to work those miracles.
Friday and saturday were so fun, we had an exchange with our district and literally just hung out the entire time. Obviously we did work but while we were making calls and stuff, we were just playing poker and laughing, playing board games and stuff! It was a blast. Honestly haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Glad our district is hype as heck!!
Sunday was super weird but so awesome as well. We had four people come to church Sunday in fact one of rhe new guys we are teaching brought his family to church with him, and stayed the whole two hours. They had a four year old son and they took him to primary. Afterwards he was coming out saying he made so many new friends! It just made me smile seeing this guy we are teaching trying to share our church with his family. Also, the guy we just put on date came and sat by us and during one of the talks he pulls out his wallet and hands both me and my comp 50 bucks! We were like uh no, you don't need to do that, he just said Marry Christmas and then went back to listening! Like literally WHAT! That does not happen and we both were like uh OK thank you!! Miracles do happen people!!!! Lol. After that we actually went back to visit the new guy we found on Thursday and taught him about the Plan of Salvation, literally already have the ball rolling with him, I hope we can stay in contact with him cause he is so cool and literally whenever we would promis blessings to him, he would be like dang I really really want that!
Anyways, overall, great great week!! Miracles are real!! God is real!! And he also apparently gets these emails cause he hasn't failed to help me in all the ways I'm struggling. Hope yall had a fantastic week and I hope yall have a fantastic week ahead. Happy MLK day! Love all yall!! See you guys I the next one!!!
-Elder Milius
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