#miracles everywhere

For a miracle though, we recently started teaching this Chinese guy named  C,this week.. our first lesson with him was amazing!.. He accepted to be baptized and shared about this amazing experience where he prayed to God for the first time in China and felt this overwhelming feeling of love and peace... He then said from that experience alone he believed in God.. although so many others told him He is not real!... We were able to share with him that what he felt.. Was indeed God's messenger.. the Holy Ghost.. He's now preparing himself to be baptized on March 8th!.. WOOO! #miracles everywhere.

We met this guy named J from China.. and we had a really good first lesson with him... and we haven't seen him in a couple weeks due to him being antied from his friend... but he decided to come back and learn from "Official" representatives of the church and we set a baptismal date with him for the 22nd of March!!.. MIRACLE!... It's truly a blessing and the investigators perspective truly changes when they actually see you as an Official Representative of Jesus Christ!...AMAZING! .

 Another RANDOM AS moment... I was on trade-off with an Elder and in the City it's super busy.. so I was walking down the street trying to spot a white shirt as to where he was at... I stopped and looked around for a bit... Then I looked directly across the street and this girl comes sprinting at me... And so I was just like... 'I wonder where shes going'... then she gets closer and closer... 'I should probably move'.... Then she comes and haults and goes 'CALEB!'....

It was fair dinkum Esther McCarthy!!!! She came up and tried to hug me and I just put out my hand.. 'I can't hug I can't hug!!!' Hahaha. She was there with her sisters Antonia, Genevieve and Madeleine!.... It was by far one of the top most random moments on my mission... And no joke.. like 10 feet away from where I met Victor Kim from Quest Crew... I need to go to that spot more often.. who knows who I'll meet next... perhaps Jesus.... But yeah she snapped a selfie of us so it may be on FB hahah... who knows. 

As for miracles!... Our Zone has finally reached a grand total of 175 New Investigators,this.month! The highest the Zone or any Zone in the mission has gotten was 109NI... And it's nothing to say about previous missionaries not being good or us being beast mode... It's merely just a testament that the Lord is hastening His work.. It's time to start breaking new ground... Elder Nelson just announced in the Ward Council meeting he attended that there was a stake trying to be created in the Baltic Region over 4 countries!... He said relating to it.. "We've got growing pains all over the Church!".. With the amount of trust and work that is happening.. It's time that we all need to step up to a higher sense of commitment than ever before.. And that's not to be interpreted in the way that we need to be amazing dynamic instruments as the Elder Holland or the Apostle Paul type... it merely means we need to be ready and willing to take any errand the Lord needs run... Elder Nelson said "The Lord uses the unlikely to accomplish the impossible!"... He illustrated that through many examples.... take Moses for example.. commanded to take the Children of Israel to the shore of the Red Sea... And then the waters divide and they walk through on dry land??? Unlikely?... Yes!.... And how about Abraham and Sarah... Promised to bear children... Every one knows that 90 year old women don't bear children.... But the Lord brought forth Isaac to them!... Unlikely??... Yes!... And how about the prophecy of Isaiah?... The Savior being born of a Virgin?... Every one knows Virgins cannot have children!... yet the Savior came into the world from the Virgin Mary... Unlikely???... Yes!... And last for example... a 14 year old boy... appeared to.. By God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ?.. And appointed to restore the Church of Jesus Christ in it's fullness?... Unlikely?... Yes!!... It has to be unlikely!!... that way no one can misunderstand who is at the Head of this work!!.. It is not by man... but by God... 

Ahhhh He went onto so many great topics but that was one of my favorite that he addressed!.. And the amazing thing beyond all.... During the whole course of the Conference... I felt the Spirit the strongest... during 2 specific times.... When Elder Nelson walked in.... and when he walked out.... Namely when he walked out of the building... as he came passing us on his way out the door... The spirit bore witness to me... and the words came into my head... which were not my own words... and whispered to me... "He is my witness"  ... I know with a surety... no doubt in my mind.. That not only him... but every normal person that is appointed as a leader for His church... is called of God... Once that mantle is on them... they are not their own... for God is directing them.