October 4, 2017

THIS WEEK. Where do I even begin? I love being a missionary, that's where I'll begin!!!!

So this week we got 5 new investigators!!!!! I'll share just one evening that happened Wednesday

 We were going out to talk to Marissa (lady with the ravenous wolf dogs) and she wasn't home but her husband was.....He was not interested but I had the opportunity to plant a seed :) We knocked on the door and when he saw our tags he looked at us and was like I read through some of your book and we are fine with what we have we don't need your Mormon Bible. Little background about Sister Allart is that she really doesn't like it when people call the Book of Mormon the Mormon Bible. So I pipped up and defended the Bible. I didn't think I would have to do that in Texas a lot but I have a lot of opportunities! So anyways Sister Allart then went on to talk about how she loves the Bible and the the Bible is not the Book of Mormon and the Book of Mormon is not the Bible but Both are the word of God and Both are testaments of Jesus Christ after talking about the bible for a bit we got into a conversation about Christ and how Marvin (Marissa's husband) son was going to be getting baptized. we expressed our happiness and excitement for him and their family and it was incredible to see how his heart was literally being softened by the millisecond! I then asked if I could share a scripture from Psalms and he was pretty apprehensive and I looked at him and was like it's in the bible and he was like oh okay.....Texans...We then shared Psalms 82:5-6 and spoke about the darkness and how we're children of God and what not and the spirit was really strong. I then asked if I could share a personal experience that I had with a scripture from the Book of Mormon and he said no but I left him with my testimony of the Book of Mormon and I could tell by the end of the conversation that there was a seed planted and it was going to grow! Gotta love Texas lots of good fertile ground for seeds :) 

BUT THAT NIGHT we harvested :) Delia aka Sister Rodriguez now :) we went to contact her and give her the Book of Mormon she requested and it was so amazing!! We shared the tree of life vision from 1 nephi 8 and wow. She was incredible we stopped and talked about it in between verses and wow. She expressed that she had never felt that way when someone had read scriptures before and that she understood what was going on and it made sense to her. she complimented our knowledge of the scriptures but really it was just cause we knew what was going on prior to the scripture ex: we knew who laman and lemuel were haha but she was so excited she asked when and where church was! we invited her to be baptized and she said yes! she's going to be out of town for a couple weeks but  November 18th! she was probably the only person I've met that has extended a baptismal date and was excited about it all! She's incredible!

We also cleaned the temple fun pictures are below, yes we are on the roof :)

Yes general conference was incredible!! The Book of Mormon is the word of God! Don't know yet?  Read it, ponder it, ask God the Eternal Father if it is true in the name of Christ and I promise if you really want to know He, being God will tell YOU individually because you are known individually. I know it. I know you can know it as well! It will bless your life and bring you closer to God. It is another testament of Jesus Christ. It is a witness of the Son of God's resurrection. Please ask I promise this truth brings freedom. If you do know I would invite you to ask again. 

Well that's about all the time I have until next week! 

SISTER Allart