miracle week! Miracle Week!! MIRACLE WEEK!!!
This week was so filled with miracles! I don't even think I have time
to get to all of them.
First one: Monday night we left for Lyon because president had invited
all the people I go home with to the mission leadership conference on
Tuesday. When I heard about that all I could think was Jean Luc. He
has had a ton of hard things come into his life since being baptised
and I have been worried and praying a lot for him. So someone had to
see him. I just knew it. Half way through the conference we went out
contacting, nothing really interesting happened for me and Soeur Nef,
but when we came back in everyone was saying miracles, and one of the
elders shared this story. He had gone to hotel de ville and saw
someone sitting on a bench. Started talking to him.. IT WAS JEAN
LUC!!!!!!! Basically the elder was able to talk to him about some hard
things he was going through. And for me that was such a huge miracle
because I have been praying for weeks that someone would run into him,
and remind him that God still cared and would send help.
Miracle two: we had a return rdv with our new Amis Dorina and her 2
kids Marie and Sergio, and when the walked up they had brought with
them a family, husband wife and their son Isus!! We take them into the
church and as soon as they are inside they are saying how beautiful it
is and the kids were being hushed to be quiet because they were in a
special place. And when we took them into the chapel they all just
went quiet. The spirit was so strong, and as we sat down to teach them
the husband said to us that he was looking to change his life and
wanted to know how, and that he wanted to be baptised, and his whole
family. So we said we were there to help people prepare by teaching
them and helping them make those changes to live in harmony with
Christ's teachings. We told them that kids starting at age eight could
also be baptised and the two kids excitedly said that the were nine
and that they wanted to be baptised too. So we said we could teach the
whole family and they were all so so excited. We talked about Christ
and what that meant to follow him. They speak Romanian better than
French so looked to find the il vit video in Romanian, realized I
couldn't read Romanian... And just picked one of the videos hoping it
was the right one... And it was perfect. It was the Easter video
follow him, and as soon as it started the spirit filled the room, and
at the end the mothers were crying and even the little nine year old
boy had tears in his eyes. We asked them how the felt, and no one
really wanted to answer, but the nine year old boy did, he helped out
"bien!" Haha. We taught the, about the spirit and that they needed to
pray because the spirit would tell them that they needed to follow
Christ. When we picked a baptismal date everyone in the room started
giggling in excitement! It was amazing!!! And what was cool was that
the husband said that he would take the Book of Mormon and read and
pray because once he is baptised he said he knew he couldn't go back
on it, it was something for the rest of his life and his family and so
he would take is seriously and make sure he knew. It was cool. And I
was so touched by the desire they had to follow Christ. They don't
have a huge understanding, but they felt the spirit testify to them
that they needed to follow Christ and in so doing be baptised. So so
cool! Such a blessing for us.
And there is still more :)
Miracle three: we received a referral from the church website on
Thursday. The description was a mother of 4 kids, who had lived in the
states for four years. She had never been to church, but in her
community there were many lds families and she was impressed by their
family values and would like to come to church to learn more. So we
planned on going to her house on Saturday because we weren't able to
reach her by phone. Saturday comes and we ring her bell...nothing. So
we went contacting a bit and before leaving decided to try one more
time. And she was there! She comes out and brings chairs in to the
garden calls her kids and then tells us that ever since moving back
she has wanted to have her kids in church to bring those good values
in but she didn't like it at any of the churches she had tried. So she
kept feeling pushed to go on the church site and sign her self up, so
she talked with her husband and they decided to do it. She said she
was ready to just jump in, when was church, what do you wear, what do
the kids do, etc etc. As we talked she said how she just felt pushed
to find our church, and how as soon as she did she felt so good, and
she said that the idea of temples is beautiful and the most important
thing for her and her family. We didn't get into a ton of teaching,
but we were able to testify of the blessing of the church in our lives
and she seemed really touched and was just ready to come. At the end
of the lesson we prayed, and she had all the kids sit and she said to
them, " okay guys, we are going to learn how to pray" and so I start
explaining it. We all folded our eyes, closed our eyes, and then k
said his we start with dear Heavenly Father , and then the mom and
kids started repeating me, and so I just went with it, and we said a
prayer together. It was really cute and reminded me of our family
prayers as kids when we would repeat. It was fun and cute. And she is
so ready for the gospel, and her kids too!!!!!! It was so
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There were so many amazing things this week. Heavenly Father is
blessing us so much! I feel incredibly thankful to see these miracles
happening.
Love Soeur Christensen
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