This week has probably been one of the most spiritual weeks of my mission!! no joke! Monday night we had Family home evening with the ysa branch and they had a free car wash at the church. we were to go talk to the people while their car was being washed.. i figured to me that it was going against someones agency!! haha you have to listen to me cause your car is being washed! you know what i mean? luckily there was a storm rolling in so nobody cared to stop in and get a free car wash so it turned out to be kind of a failure! we got our car cleaned though:) Tuesday was great! we went down to Grand Prairie which is apart of our area and we were able to visit some less active members and have a lesson with our 9 year old investigator Daniel Ramirez. It was great! we taught him the Plan of Salvation and he knew almost everything. later that night we had a lesson with a member who has been inactive for a while now and we are re-teaching him the lessons because he doesn't really remember anything! His non-member wife sat in and listened but she still was saying that she doesn't want to be a Mormon. I think shes scared more of the title "Mormon" than the actual church itself. Funny thing that we found out.. Her best friend in Arizona is a member and her name is Amber Ricks and she is actually related to my companion Elder Ricks haha.
Wednesday was probably my most spiritual/miracle day of the mission so far! In the morning we went tracting in some apartments where the Spanish Elders live.. we figured since they live there and cant tract their own apartment.. we would do it for them. Well most people were not interested which is normal. but we knocked on this door and this black guy named Anthony Copeland came out and we told him who we were and what we were doing and he let us right into his house. we shared more about the Book of Mormon and that if he read it and prayed about it that he would get an answer from god that it was true. He was pretty excited to see us! he said that the last couple of weeks he had been talking to his brother about getting back into church and we just show up on his doorstep. He said that he was taking that as a sign from God! It was so cool! Right before we left we taught him about prayer and he said a prayer perfectly! He said that was the first time he had prayed in a very long time! That's not even the best part of my day!!!!!
So yesterday we received a referral from a member named David Kern that lives in the Rockwall ward. He is a lawyer and he had a co-worker named Kevin Harris that was a security guard at his law firm and was actually leaving his job for another job. Well David said that he had this impression that he should give Kevin a Book of Mormon and so he did and told him to read the introduction and Moroni's promise and then to pray about it! So we actually got a hold of Kevin and set up an appointment for Wednesday night and we went over! Brother David Kern met us there and we sat down and got to know Kevin a little bit. He told us a little about his life and that he knows there is a god but hasn't really been active in a faith. so we told him a little about what we do as missionaries and why we go out and serve! But lets get to the best part! We asked him about his experience about reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and he said as soon as he finished praying about it.. A calm, warm Energy went all through his body! I was so overwhelmed to hear about that! Wait!! it gets better! So we explained to him that, that was the spirit and so we started teaching him the Restoration and he was asking all of the right questions! He said. "if God loves all of his children, why would he create a hell"? so we were able to teach him a little about the kingdoms of glory. Another question he asked was. "what happens to all of the people that live in Africa, or China or wherever that don't get to hear about Jesus Christ? I don't think it would be fair for them to go to hell if they didn't get that chance! So we were able to teach him a little about the Spirit World!! How awesome is this!!!?? Well as soon as we finished sharing the Joseph Smith Experience with him.. He said he had that same feeling go through his body as when he finished praying! The spirit was probably the strongest i have ever felt in any lesson on my mission!!! We invited him to be baptized on August 11th and he is super excited! Kevin is so prepared to accept the Gospel!
Thursday was a good day! we went over to Sandra's and last Sunday we were having our lesson in gospel principles about covenant people and she said she wanted to learn more about that. so we went in and taught her more and also about the temples and i think she really soaked that lesson up! i think she is getting closer and closer to baptism. She was asking us about her husband and what he has to do to get back on the right path.. he is actually in prison right now on First Degree murder for shooting a woman. Sandra told us that he was trying to defend himself because the lady pulled out the gun to try and kill him and they wrestled for it and the trigger was pulled and it ended up killing the lady.. i don't know too much of the story but that's basically the bulk of it. We explained to her about the Repentance process and that someone can have a change of heart and if he really didn't mean to kill that lady.. then god knows that! Thursday morning we were able to have a lesson with Anthony Copeland and we taught him the restoration and that was another fantastic lesson! We set a baptism date with him for August 11th as well!
Then came Saturday night.. We had another lesson with Kevin Harris! We brought a member from the ysa branch named Xavier Salazar.. he is actually a convert of about a month ago. so that made Kevin feel even better knowing that anybody can join the church. Xavier shared with Kevin the change that has come about in his life and how he doesn't want to do the bad stuff that he used to do. Kevin really like that! Well we taught Kevin about the Plan of Salvation and again he was answering all of the right questions! He told us that a lot of his life time questions were being answered and he was so excited! He told us that he is super excited for his baptism date on August 11th. He also told us that he would be at church the next day. So Sunday rolls around and Brother Kern came to the singles branch to support Kevin and when Kevin walked into the chapel. He looked like a member! He was wearing a suit with a white shirt and tie! He stayed all 3 hours and told Brother Kern afterwards that he thought that since church was 3 hours he would be struggling to stay awake! But he did and he said it actually went by super fast and that he learned so much! He asked another awesome question in Elders Quorum. He said "When i help people out i feel super good! Do you think God feels that same way about us"? So Spiritual! And to end my week off with a bang!!! He walks up to Xavier after church and says to him.. My baptism is on August 11th.. I want you to baptize me! I was so so excited to hear him say that and so was Xavier! This week has been such an amazing week on my mission! Very Very Spiritual!
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