A Place of Refuge

 So this week was AWESOME! We got this mormon.org referral which are usually dodgy as... and we were talking to our District President (dropping off some buckeyes...nbd..).. And we told him about it.. and where this referral lived... he said "Well... that's the richest neighborhood in all of Coffs Harbour"... So we were like... well fair dinkum... that's not good haha, that means they're prideful as haha. But we still kept some hope and knocked on their mansion vault door... no joke.. biggest door I've seen in my life... and this lady answers and goes 'MORMONS!!!'..... 'COME IN =D'.... We were just like o.O.... Whaaaa?.... But she didn't have a male inside so we just talked on the doorstep and long story short... she's interested!... WOO!! And we took our District President to go teach with us and we taught in her back porch... it was legit... I felt like I was on MTV Cribs.. I was just waiting for Lil Jon' or Will Smith to walk out any time... she had this legit pool and crystals every where and this ridiculous mansion landscaped backyard and her daughter was bringing us out muffins and cookies the whole time... WOOO!! hahhaha. Any ways they are keen as and we're excited for them! The members are just doing so much good here... we had this rapid increase of enthusiasm from them and so everything is pumping! Which is unusual for Coffs Harbour... every one thinks of it as slow.... but Nay... tis ballin!!

 

Here's an update on our Investigator B... So the same lesson we gave him a blessing... we watched the mormon message "Mountains to Climb"... The next time we saw him he just opened up to us like "Hey you know that video you showed me?.. I've watched that thing like 45 times!.. And that would be an understatement!... I just had it on replay the whole time.. every thing that man was saying I just felt was true! I cried like 3 times listening to it.. And I looked it up the whole talk and read it and sent it to my mum (who belongs to Church of England).. And she hung up the phone on me... then I called her back later and she answered crying... and she was saying how true it was as well!"..... MIRACLE!! Hahaha it was so cool.. Me and my companion just looked at each other and we were both thinking... 'he's getting baptized'... Then we had this super powerful lesson with him.. he never knew he could be forgiven and thought there weren't any good enough people on the earth anymore to be prophets... So we taught the Restoration mixed in with the Atonement... and after explaining the Savior's Earthly Ministry and everything he performed (baptism, atonement etc.)... We invited him to be baptized.... AND HE AGREED!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!... This area hasn't seen a baptism in at least 18-24 months.. It's been such a miracle! The Lord has been pouring out His tender mercies upon us! 

 

 We taught this lesson in at this Less Active members home.. and their neighbors were partying and were rioting hardcore (one of our cars actually got dented in a result of it).. But as we were teaching this lesson amongst these circumstances... Time seemed to just stand still for a moment... As we taught this family... just for a moment... all the loud ruckus that was going on.. The screaming.. the swearing.. the sound of bottles breaking..... just seemed to disappear... and the Spirit filled the room... and it was just perfect.... The less active woman then started to bear her testimony to all of us and it was SO POWERFUL!!!... And from this experience I actually received revelation!.. Usually I used to think of church or your home as a place of refuge.. just distinct places..... But I realized... it's where the spirit is... when the spirit is present... whatever location you're at... can be your place of refuge... And in that strangers home... in between those walls... inside from the worldly immorality... was my momentary place of refuge!