No Greater Joy

We had an awesome as week! I'll tell you 2 experiences!

 

#1- We were teaching the 1st counselor of the Branch Presidency in his home one evening and we were discussing their missionary efforts and how we could help them... They then said they wanted to have a Family Home Evening with us and a MEXICAN FAMILY! WOOOOOOO!!! (I've never taught a single mexican on my mission).. They're catholics but are willing to come over.. And so we were stoked as and were thanking them for this opportunity.. and they then gave us one of the best compliments I've received on my mission... they said "We want to thank you for your dedication! We have met a lot of missionaries and we can tell you are dedicated! That's why we trust you with our friends.. Otherwise we would wait for better missionaries... but no.. we trust you!".... I was just speechless after that... I couldn't stop smiling haha. That just goes to show.. if you do your best and work hard.. people will recognize it! And so this evening we're going to be teaching that Mexican family! This is like the 1st referral this area has received in AGES! Miracles indeed!

 

#2- We were teaching our investigator B and we just finished sharing with him the First Vision and after I bore my testimony to him.. I asked "How do you feel about what we've shared with you?".. And he responded.. "What yous are tellin me now... I wouldn't of believed it a couple years ago.. But I believe you guys! It's just little things that are makin me believe.. Like just the other night I was stressed out of my mind and woke up in the middle of the night and started watching tv and I thought... This isn't going to help me... so I knelt down and prayed and I just felt this immediate calmness! I was even at this funeral and every one was crying.. But I just remembered what you guys have been teaching me and I was just calm..".... Me and my companion just looked at each other and were like FAIRDINKUM!! He's been so prepared it's unreal.. And it makes it that much more miraculous when we're in an area that's not particularly referred to as the "garden spot" of the mission.. yet we've been smashing it..

 

I've experienced no greater joy than sharing the gospel and feeling the spirit that comes with it.. And especially seeing strong and faithful members live the gospel! It's like what Joseph Smith once said- "Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and it will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness and keeping the commandments.".. All the things listed there... all points to the fact that the path that leads to happiness... is the gospel!