Sunday, January 20, 2013

God Loves All His Children

So lately me and my companions (plural) hahah. We've been talking about how the more diligent we are and the more we align our will with the Lord's and show him we're willing to sacrifice things etc... then will he entrust us with more of his children (more people to teach)... And so we've been trying to do that lately to be more diligent and this week we saw some major results!!! So just some background.... M... he's a super golden investigator we met a month ago and we committed him to baptism the first lesson.. but the next week he went to Melbourne for travel and we lost contact with him for about a month.... Then another investigator J..  left to Korea  last week..... But this week we got a call from M after a month of no contact and he said he was back and wanted to meet with us still! And we met up with him and he was still KEEN AS! He remembered everything we taught him the 1st lesson, he was praying.. and still wanted to be baptized!!!#Miracle.... Then during our English Class we got a call from an unknown number... so I stepped out for a sec to take it and it turns out... J... right before he left... he told his friend if she could do anything for him... it was to call us and go to our church... And so here we were on the phone with her! And she was Korean so I gave the phone to my companion Elder J... and he was confused like "Do you want to learn about English?"... And she replied "English?!... What English?! I want to learn about the church!"... Hahahah it was so insane!!! And along with her we met another guy named D and set baptismal dates with both of them that same night!.... The Lord's been pouring out blessings upon us.... But like anything in life... Sacrifice brings blessings... In football.. that guy who stays after practice doing sprints and reviewing plays etc. will prosper in gameday... such is the same in missionary work... as we've been diligent and sacrificing some necessary things we've been prospering in the Lord's work... And nothing left is to say but..... WOOOOOOO! Haha.

Usually we have baptisms every Saturday night but the branch changed it so it's only twice a month now...So now we have nothing to do on Saturday nights... So we go finding!!! It's super sketch cause all the drunk people are out... But we convinced my companion Elder O (the one on crutches) to come with me and Elder J to go finding at Belmore Park.  But anyways... I was finding and started talking to this homeless guy.... He first asked me for the time so I told him "6:45" or whatever and was walking away... but then I felt impressed to talk with him and at first I was like... What the heck I don't wanna talk to a bogan hahaha. But that morning I read a talk "Be Anxiously Engaged" And "Consider the Blessings" in the last general conference and so the first talk said every day we should ask ourselves "Have I done any good in the world today?" "Have I helped anyone in need" And "Consider the Blessings" talked about being an answer to other peoples prayers... And so I prayed that morning to help someone... so as I went back to talk to him, he opened up like crazy and said how his life has been a failure and he's an alcoholic etc.. And I taught him the plan of salvation right there and he just stopped for a second and smiled and was like "Thank you.... thank you so much!! I really needed this!" And I gave him my number and invited him to church and left... And so I left the park that day with such a good feeling... And being able to answer "yes" to those questions at the end of the day.... God loves all his children... even if they are bogans... haha.  

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