He Changes Hearts and Lives

 From Rachel Weeks

Teaching in Georgia, USA

Well, this week we had some pretty amazing miracles with our investigators and their hearts softening. God is so good in the miracles that He shows us. Our investigator, Mary, talked about how she likes what she is hearing.  She  just wants peace in making her decision, because when she gets baptized she wants to keep that promise forever. It was such a good thing to hear. She really just gets it.  I love to look at her and see how she changes and the questions that she has and her willingness to align her will with God’s will. In church last Sunday we had a lesson on Priesthood blessings and she asked us if she would be able to get one to help her make her decision. Like I said, she really just gets it. 

Also Debbie this week told us that she knows that the Church is true, that The Book of Mormon is true and that..... SHE WANTS TO GET BAPTIZED. [The baptism] will be in a few months because she really wants her daughter to be baptized with her and she feels that that is a good time table. It is amazing how far she has come in just six short months - from being Jewish and not even believing in Christ, to accepting him into her life and believing His Gospel is true. If that isn't a testament that He changes hearts and lives and that this is His Gospel, I don't know what is.

She Knew We Were Sent From God to Help Her

From Cambree King

Teaching in Honduras 

 This week we found a true miracle. We contacted a lady named Betulia the other day in the Carboneras. We went back to visit her and she was so willing to let us in and share with her. Her daughter has received missionaries before, but she said she has never had the desire to listen. As we got talking, she just broke down crying and said she knew that we were sent from God to help her in this time of her life. She has a son who lives in the states and a year ago, he had a surgery on his brain. He lost all of his memory of his time before and she hasn’t had contact with him since. We testified of the plan of salvation and how this gospel could help her have an eternal family. I have never seen someone listen with such a great desire to know. She couldn’t stop telling us how grateful she is that we passed by her house. Before we even invited her, she asked us when we had meetings in the Church and she said she would be there. 

It’s incredible how the Lord prepares people and puts them in our path so that we can help them experience the joys of the restored gospel. The only sad thing is that the adversary works hard in this work as well. Something happened and she had to go live in San Pedro Sula for a month. We don’t have contact with her, but it was still and incredible miracle to witness and one day she will go searching for the gospel because she knows that it is true.