dang i love that picture of Adri and I so much! that is the coolest thing ever!
ok so you guys are lucky i never write for a long time but this time is way good!!!!!
This week we had miracles like i have never seen before. So i will tell you a cool story well we have an investigator and has a baptismal date next week and last week we were really worried because she hasnt been understanding a couple of key doctines she didnt understand 3 things. 1st.... she has a hard time believing that christ suffered for every single person. 2nd.... that the book of mormon is 100% true (she knows its true but she thinks there is a couple of fairytales in it) 3rd... the restoration of the priesthood! So we planned a really really good lesson and she came and sat down and then she just started crying..... And we hadnt even started the lesson and she just started telling us what was wrong, well she said she drank a cup of coffee and she was trying so hard not to. And just some other things werent going very well. Well anyways we just showed her some encouraging scriptures and stuff and we werent able to teach her the lesson we planned... But after about 30 minutes of just straight listening to her out of nowhere she said, you know what the book of mormon is 100% true and there arent any fairytales in it!! (i was like wow that was really random.... but keep talking) and then out of nowhere about 2 minutes later she said, its amazing that christ suffered for all of us and including me!!! when i heard that i about dropped my book, i was like we havent even taught you the lesson, and all we have done is listened and the holy ghost was there literally teaching her!!! it was an amazing thing! And then we taught her about the restoration of the priesthood and gave her a blessing!!! it was so amazing the lord was humbling her so that she would be ready for her baptismal date! It was definetly one of the biggest miracles i have seen on my mission!
ok now i will tell you the BIGGEST MIRACLE i have seen on my mission. Well we had to go up to Maribor on wednesday for a baptismal interview and while we were up there i got a call for this guy saying that he tried coming into the church but the church was closed, so i told him we dont live in the church and that we would love to get will him tommorow. Well he was like, "i want to change my life, my life sucks and its cause i dont have god" and i was like... ok your right, well what about if we get together tommorow at 11. So we get together with him the next day and he walked in and he looked like a mess, not to be mean but he look like he had devil inside of him, i have never seen anyone so sad and hopeless. Then he said well i just wanted to show up and now i am going. But we were like no... come sit down and we can talk. Well we talked and he was really messed up, he was the saddest i have ever seen anyone and the most lonely and deep into alot of sin. And so we start talking and the whole time he never looked up at us once, just his whole accountance was depressing to see. Well we talked to him and gained his trust and then talked about christ. And he said the reason he hates life is because of all the sinning he does, and we said that chirst invites everyone to repent and that he isnt lost. Well when we said he wasnt lost he looked up and said i hope what you guys are telling me is true, becasue i used to go to church but i stopped because the priest there told me i am going to hell and there is no point in trying. So we said that isnt true and he still has a chance and it will take effort on his side. And we gave him a Book of Mormon and asked if we could get together the next day. He later told us that it took him 7 tries to get to the chruch and that if the church was 1 meter father he would have made it cause he was trying to do what is right but i honestly think the devil was working on him more then normal.
So the next day comes and he shows up to the church when i saw him i honestly didnt recognize him!!!!!!! I saw him he was looking me in the eyes and was holding himself like he had respect for himself and other. And we started the lesson i was just shocked.... and i asked him, what is different today, you are totally different? what is it? and he opens his book of Mormon to 3 Nefi 11 and slightly stooked the page, and said, "this is what changed me!" He read about jesus christ and then he said, "why wouldnt i be happy i am not lost i still have a chance and Christ suffered for me!" i was just in shock... literaly in 24 hours it changed his life, he loved it so much he slept next to the book. He said there is so much power in this book! And he said he had been praying like crazy. Well we asked him if he would start preparing for baptism and he will be baptized on Oct 15! We are going to be working with him alot before then!
Well he ended up coming to church. He actually called me and 4 in the mourning on sunday and asked if i would call him at 8 oclock becasue he had a feeling that he might sleep in and he really really really wanted to come. He came and he loved it!!!
This week was full of miracles!
good stuff!
also we were with the president and i said.. president i heard a rumor that you are going to send your Slovenia Zone leaders down to Bosnia. he just laughed and then i asked him how close it was to being opened he said it will be very soon. Then i said well i know of a missionary that has wished his whole mission to serve there, and that he would extend 6 months if he had the chance to serve there... He just laughed again and said that is good to know. So start praying that the lord will send me there! the good thing is i am on presidents good side! (i also send this letter to him) hahaha
Well love you family!!
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