Confirming Miracles

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras

On Sunday, we had planned a day of contacting because we are in need of new people. We were knocking doors and we met a family; it’s a mom her daughter and two grand kids. Turns out that on Sunday, they were cleaning their house and they found a book of Mormon that the missionaries gave them. They had read some before and they decided on Sunday that they wanted to know more.

Well, the Lord truly guides us to where we need to be because we showed up just a few minutes afterward to explain the restoration and the importance of the Book of Mormon. It’s one of those miracles that confirms that we are in the work of the Lord and doing what He needs.

If You Could Ask God Anything and He Would Respond, What Would You Ask?

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras

We were knocking some doors the other day and we found a girl who is 17 and her name is Karla. She has actually been to Church before and has listened to the missionaries. As my companion said the opening prayer, the thought came to my mind to ask her, If she could ask God anything and He would respond, what would she ask Him?

She completely opened up and began to explain her fear that the Lord wouldn’t offer sufficient forgiveness for all of the sins that she commits daily. She wanted to know if the Lord tires of our asking for forgiveness and how it is possible that everything we do can be forgiven. I was amazed at how the Spirit entered the room immediately. We explained the answer and she accepted to be baptized.

We planned a date to go back and around the corner, we passed her mom. We got her consent to teach her and her mom said, "She really wants to listen to you?" I guess that Karla hasn’t had much interest in these types of things, but it was a true testament of how the spirit can change hearts and how we must listen to every prompting that comes. It’s incredible to see the Lords hand in all that we do.

In the Right Place at the Right Time

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras

Imagine finding an investigator named Moroni who is reading the Book of Mormon. Crazy Crazy!

 Last week, an hermana came to church on her own. Her husband passed away about two weeks ago and she just decided that it was time to better her relationship with the Lord and found out the answers to all of her questions. We finally found her house and she accepted a date to be baptized. This Sunday, we went back to her house and her son was there as well. It was Moroni; we asked him if he would like to be baptized and he smiled and said, "Of course." We explained that if he wanted to be baptized, he had to listen to our messages when we came so that he could learn what was necessary. He just looked at us and said, “Okay... when do we start?” We laughed and then continued to teach the plan of salvation. He is only ten years old but knows all of the Book of Mormon stories. He even asked us why the forbidden fruit was forbidden for Adam and Eve! What kind of ten year old has a question like that cross his mind! Man it was crazy and a real blessing from the Lord.

The Lord helped us this week be in the right place at the right time and has guided us to many of his prepared people.

 

I Had An Undeniable Feeling That We Had To Invite Her

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras

On Sunday, the elders in our district had a baptism and we really didn’t have any reason to go but they kept calling us and telling us to come. So, as it was starting, we headed to the church. A mototaxi offered us a ride and took us right up to the door of the church because it was pouring. But about a block before the church on the corner was an hermana that sells ojuelas (fried tortilla things) that I have seen several times. As I looked at her on the corner, I felt an undeniable feeling that we had to invite her. The baptism was waiting on us and it was pouring rain and I about didn’t go back. But I knew I couldn’t walk in without inviting her. The Elders came out to let us in and I just said, “You have to wait. Give me a minute,” and they kind of freaked out. But we went down and invited the hermana to come to the baptismal service. She didn’t even hesitate and came with us. I don’t know what difference it made in her life, but I know that she felt the Spirit and I am so grateful that I listened to the Spirit in that moment. Sometimes, we don’t understand why the Spirit tells us to do certain things,  but the Lord has a higher manner of thinking in all ways. 

On Tuesday, we went to contact a block close to our house. A week ago, we promised the Lord that we would be there at that time and that we would knock every door of the block. Of course we found some very interesting people, but the Lord blessed us with Mario and his two boys. Mario has heard of the church quite a bit in his life but i think that now is just his time. He has had a bit of alcohol in his life but he has decided that now is the time to leave it. In college, he was studying to be a sacerdote in the catholic church but got with the wrong group of friends and he said that it has changed his life. We invited him to commit to pray to know if he needed to listen to our message. The second time we went back he said that every single one of them had prayed about our message and that the answer was a clear yes that they needed to open the door to us. He claims it is a miracle that he even let us in the first time, but he has so much potential. 

It is Amazing the Things that are Happening

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras 

We started making the JAS (young single adults) do activities and get together. It is amazing the things that are happening.

There is one girl whose name is Katty. She accepted to be baptized in two weeks, she is incredible. She has come to church three times with her boyfriend, and this week we taught her. As she said the closing prayer, she said that we were grateful that we could see if maybe this was the true church. She paused and changed her words and said,”Just kidding. I am completely convinced and know without a doubt that this is the true church of Jesus Christ.”

 And this Saturday, Paola is going to be baptized. When we found her, she was seventeen and we were waiting for her 18th birthday. She has been going to church for a good year with her boyfriend and knows that she needs to be baptized. She is just worried about what her family will think. But yesterday she expressed how, now that she has made the decision, she can finally sleep at night. Every talk in church, she said, seems to be directed completely to her. She is incredible and I feel like she could be my sister.