Monday, August 18, 2008

Miracles through the Spirit

Our district goes to the TRC every Saturday morning to teach volunteers the lessons in Chinese. These volunteers are most of the time members and want to help. Well, my teach Brother Hodges found some Taiwanese people that weren't members and played basketball with a couple teenage boys with a bunch of other Chinese MTC teachers. Well, Brother Hodges brought these teenagers to the TRC on Saturday.

When we found out we were going to teach these real investigators our companionship got really excited and nervous and must have said about 3 prayers. Well, we taught a 35 minute lesson and it went great! We taught about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and how we can pray to him. He is the creator (Mosiah 4:9) and loves his children. We taught them about receiving answers and feeling the Holy Ghost. Well, there was an aunt and two cousins from Taiwan. The 2 boys were both 17, Xu dixiong and Lin dixiong. The spirit was soo strong as we bore testimony of our loving Heavenly Father. We helped him recognize what he was feeling. He felt nervous at the beginning but then felt comfortable and we told him that this was the Spirit.

Okay, well, thats not even the best part. We heard later that Lin dixiong was taught by 2 more Elders in our zone. They taught him about prophets and Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. The missionaries asked him what he knew about prophets and he told him that he thought they were men called of God that received revelation to teach the Church because God couldn't come down to earth. Amazed at his knowledge, the missionaries asked who had taught him and he said that "The sisters taught me this morning." What!?! We didn't even say the work prophets and we didn't even mention about what a prophet is. The Spirit was teaching him!

Wow, what a wonderful opportunity to be an instrument in the Lord's hands. The Spirit is the real teacher, the missionaries are just the ones trying to bring that Spirit. Its so awesome! Missionary work is great!!

Thank you for all the support. Love you all!

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