The Essence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

 This week was fair dinkum aussie mate.. It first kicked off with thee most legit thing I've ever heard in my life!! So once again... our awesome investigator B... bless his soul... He's making our mission so awesome with the experiences we share with him!... He is seriously the definition of gold.... So we shared with him the 20min Restoration DVD and invited him to pray about it... and he expressed to us he was finding a little difficulty of recognizing his answers.. So the next lesson we're starting to share ways we can recognize the spirit... And before we even start he goes... "I'll tell yous this experience I had... the night you left after sharing with me the movie about Joseph Smith.. I had a dream.. and it was so surreal... It was like I was a spirit looking at me... and I could see the back of this other person talking to me... And he asked me 'If you believe Jesus Christ is your Saviour and he was resurrected... Why is it hard to believe Joseph Smith is a prophet?'... And I just replied.. 'Nah it's not hard to believe'..... Then the guy asked me.. 'So what's the problem here?'... And I just replied 'There's no problem'... then the dream ended"............. I was BEYOND blown away.. And I felt the spirit so strong as he shared that so I knew it wasn't something he just made up... And then I asked him.. "So do you believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God?".. And B just replied.. "Yeah!"... . MY GOODNESS!!! I couldn't help but smile and hold back my laughing from the magnitude of legitness! And we set the vision for them in that lesson that baptism isn't the end.. That this will go into being sealed as a family in the Temple.. and they both agreed... And I'm so grateful for this restored knowledge we have about this.. "Behold, I give unto you power, that whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven..." (Helaman 10:7)... This is the vision I had when I came on my mission.. to help other families so they can be eternal... so many people look at missions as merely just baptisms... No it's Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the Endowment.. Helping them get to the Temple to make those covenants and ultimately be sealed for time and all eternity... This is the essence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

 So that potential that we found at the baptism.. we taught her 2 days ago... And she didn't have a male in her home so we went to this park near the Jetty <-- Popular as beach... So we were sitting at a picnic table teaching her the Restoration.. and mind you.. there are speed boat races going on just behind us.. but it was the coolest thing.. I started quoting Joseph Smiths first vision... "I saw a pillar of light.." (VVVVVRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!! VRRRRRROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!! These speed boats were LOUD AS!) But as I quoted that... It was one of those surreal moments as if time just stood still... and just the 3 of us on that little park bench... by the moment I finished saying it.. She had this huge smile beaming across her face and felt that it was right... It was so awesome! Then afterwards... it was funny as.. she kept mentioning this "admirer" that she has that makes her cheesecakes... And then she was like.. do you elders want some?... I was like HECK YEAH! So she went to her house and brought us this fair dinkum legit cheesecake.. Twas a blessed day... 

And this is a weird type of miracle... but nonetheless.. a miracle haha.. We were doing service for our investigator... the mormon.org referral... And we were shovelling mushroom manure compost stuff into her garden and this box thingy.. and we were filthy as... and a little side story.. I was chopping the compost down cause it was a bit tough... and I smacked something and heard a (POP)... Then the most putrid smell engulfed my nostrils and I seriously almost threw up in my mouth... I fair dinkum saw this 'century egg' we'll call it... It was this black egg that was under the dirt for who knows how long.. it was NASTY! haha... anyways.. shortly after that life changing experience that my nose will never forget.... our investigator.. BROUGHT 4 POTENTIALS TO HER HOME!... So we were able to meet all of them and they were interested in meeting again... I <3 referrals so much.. zay za best... And I also built my first pop up pool thing for a less active... so yeah... twas quite the week!.