Transfers are this week. I am getting a new companion named Elder Ure, and Elder Herrador is going to be a Spanish missionary! It will be a weird change, but I'm excited!
'Tis the season for Christmas miracles, and we had A LOT of them this week!
To start off the miracles, I'll share an experience that we had with a new investigator that we picked up this last week. We tracted into K, and she was extremely nice to us. She is around 30 years old or so, and she has a husband and 2 daughters. One of them is 8 1/2, and the other is just a little toddler. She told us that she was busy doing college homework right then, but we could come back in a couple days. We brought one of our ward missionaries, and we sat down in her living room. She pulled a chair up and sat down right in front of us. Her kids were running around a bit and distracting her, but she told them to quiet down because she wanted to listen to us. We taught her the Restoration, and we invited her to be baptized on January 11th. She said, "Can it be on the 18th? My brother is leaving the weekend of the 11th, and I want to be there when he leaves." It was awesome to see how Heavenly Father led us to knock on K's door, and to see how much he had allowed her heart to be open to our message.
We had a lesson scheduled with K, the lady who has a baptismal date for December 28th, so we went over there with our Ward Mission Leader to teach her the Plan of Salvation. When we showed up, K introduced us to a man named M. K has 2 sons. The older one is D, and he is 13 years old. The youngest is E, and he is just a baby. K told us that M was the father of the baby, E. We talked for a little bit, and M told us that he had met with missionaries a couple of times, but nothing ever really happened because of it. After that, we taught the Plan of Salvation to them and explained how Heavenly Father intends for the family to live together for eternity. M started freaking out, telling us how crazy it was that we were teaching that. He told us that he and K were just talking about getting married the day before. At that point, we invited M to be baptized on December 28th with K, and he said, "I'd be more than happy to." It was so awesome to see how the Gospel touched M's heart. He doesn't really look like the kind of guy that would be a Mormon, since he has a bunch of tattoos and big earrings. It taught me that we really don't know who is searching for the Gospel, and we just need to be open to sharing it with everyone we come in contact with.
Later in the week, we went back over to see how M and K were doing. We had a Ward Christmas party the day before that they all came to, including D. Our Ward Mission Leader, Brother T, gave them a tour around the church after the party. K had explained to us before that D wasn't incredibly open to going to most any Church. We were able to ask D about how he liked the Ward Christmas Party, and he told us that he really enjoyed it. They told us that during the tour around the church, one of the places they walked by was the baptismal font. D piped up and asked, "Can I be baptized?" We were pretty surprised, so we invited D to be baptized on December 28th as well, and he accepted! It is so cool, because we have been praying to find a family for weeks, and Heavenly Father led us straight to one. They were all able to come to Church this past week, and they loved it.
While we were over at K and M's place, M was asking us a few things for a little bit. We were sitting down on the couch, and he sat down right in front of us on the floor and asked, "What do you guys have that makes you so happy?" He said that he and K had been talking about how I am just smiling a bunch and am just content with anything. He said that he had been looking for that for his whole life and had never found it. It touched my heart, because Heavenly Father loves us all so much.He knows that M has been searching for lasting happiness, and he allowed us to be the ones to help him accept the Gospel. I'm grateful for that amazing miracle.
The Church is true - the Book is blue - and I love you!
Elder Ethan Nielsen
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