From Karsten Hinckley
Teaching in Thailand
This last week Elder Taylor and I have just been so lucky to
be teaching amazing people! Great investigators. We were talking the other day
and we came to the conclusion that we don’t want to go home. It has been
amazing to see how the Lord has worked the past three months. We have seen so
many miracles.
One miracle was a former investigator that we contacted the
other day. We made an appointment with her and she came. She is only 16 years
old and she is one of the most prepared people that I have met. Her only
problem is that her parents will not allow her to be baptized. I really dislike
that. Sometimes parents just need to trust their children with a decision like
this to follow Jesus Christ. We asked her," Have you ever felt the spirit
before?" She wasn’t sure. For the next two days that we met with her we
told her how the spirit could feel and how she could know. We fasted with her
that her parents would open their hearts. Yesterday at church, after the fast
was over, we asked her how the fast went.
She replied, "I did what you told me to do. I waited while I prayed
and I felt something that I have never felt before in my life! I had goose
bumps! I loved that feeling!" Oh, that made Elder Taylor and I very happy.
We told her to write a letter to her parents about how she feels about Jesus
Christ and how she would like to be baptized. Well, she did that and when she
is ready she will give the letter to her parents! I am sad that I won’t be able
to work with her anymore but that is okay. I was still able to see her
progress!
Sister Yuki told us of some missionaries experiences that
she had the other day which has really strengthened her testimony of the Lord.
She was in a taxi telling a friend about what she had learned at church. Her
friends got out of the taxi and she then went home. In the ride home, the taxi
driver started to ask her questions about what she was telling her friend. The
driver was interested and she got his number. She then called us and told us
she had an investigator for missionaries in another area. She was really happy
to share the gospel with that person. I am telling you all that sharing the
gospel is not hard at all and that it is possible. All you have to do is be
ready to open your mouth when the time is right.
