Hey y’all! It's a great day to be here in the VRM! Hope it's a great day for y’all as well! My week was super sweet, we had lots and lots of miracles! God is truly hastening the work here in Virginia!
So to get going, Ty is still doing amazing, we had a dinner/lesson with him and some members and it was so awesome. He has the most perfect questions ever and our members just testified of their experiences and he wa loving it, he is so ready to be baptized. He is already telling everyone about it. He literally wants to fly his grandma from Jamaica to see his baptism. Then he came to church on Sunday and obviously it being fast Sunday, there were lots of members testifying if the church and the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. Then afterwards ty told us he was praying to know if this church was the right path and then just felt God speak to him while our members were sharing their testimonies! It was so awesome!! He is so excited to be baptized, just pray he doesn't have any word of wisdom issues or anything like that so we don't have to push his date back.
We had another friend come to church as well, he is chilling but unfortunately has so much on his plate right now. He is from Cuba and is battling trying to get his green card but needs the money to pay for lawyers but just doesn't have enough time to do so. We are really relying on the lord right now. If God be willing, and our friend keeps coming to church, we believe a miracle can happen so he can stay in the U.S. and be able to make a covenant with God. So please pray for him so everything will work out!!
Now to get to the title. We have this one friend who previously talked to missionaries who apparently he bashed with cause he didn't believe in our prophet or the Book of Mormon. We took the approach to just love him and solve his concerns in a friendly matter. We helped him overcome a lot of problems with our church and he is now reading the Book of Mormon a lot. Last Tuesday we read 2 Nephi 31 with him which talks all about baptism and then my companion at the end invited him to be baptized and the spirit just took the works! He is now on date to be baptized in March and If you asked me when we first started teaching him that he would be on date to be baptized, I would tell you that you're crazy! But here we are, God is a God of miracles!
We had an interesting experience with the sister missionaries this week as well. On the day we had the dinner/ lesson, the sisters spam us basically saying they need a blessing asap. They said they were being followed by a demon and one of the sisters felt it touch her. They were lowkey freaking out and I believed them completely. So we came by and gave them a blessing and it was honestly super cool to see what was in the blessing. My comp literally afterwards said he was thinking basically everything I said and word after word just felt like the spirit, it didn't even feel like I was speaking. Then we also dedicated their apartment so they felt safe. It was crazy, kinda spooky but the power of God is way stronger than the power of the devil
OK that's my week. I'll keep yall posted bout my comp next week cause if things go smoothly, my comp will be in Mexico by next Monday and I'll have a new companion for a week. God has seriously had such a huge part in everything that is going on. I've got Mosiah 14: 5 on my mind which is...
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
I've focused so much on how this principle not only applies to us as individuals but also our relationships with others. Because of christ, our area is seeing miracles. Because of christ, people are preparing to recieve the gospel. Because of the atonement of Jesus christ, things are slowly coming together. The atonement doesn't just save us from sin but also saves the whole world from brokenness. Fear is disturbed by the atonement of Jesus Christ. Hate is diminished by the atonement of Jesus Christ. Joy is emerging because of the atonement of Jesus Christ. Contentment is found because of the atonement of Jesus Christ!
OK I hope yalk have a great one! Talk to yall later!!
- Elder Milius
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