Week 60

This week was awesome! On Tuesday we taught a woman named Yvonne! We met her a few weeks ago at CVS after picking up my antibiotics for a sinus infection! Miracle sinus infection! Haha, anyway after meeting her we found out that we could help her with her Thanksgiving meal so we reached out to the ward and an AMAZING family stepped up and provided an ENTIRE Thanksgiving meal for Yvonne and her family! Amazing! So, on Tuesday we brought another member over and taught her about the Restoration. We asked her what it would mean to her if there was a prophet on the Earth today. She said, "Okay!" Haha, that was her way of saying she has no objections to the idea! She is awesome and said she feels the Spirit every time missionaries talk to her about Joseph Smith. (Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that missionaries taught her a year or two ago.) Anyway, we are teaching her now. She is Baptist and very devoted to her religion. We are so happy that she has such great faith in Christ and we know that as she reads the Book of Mormon her testimony of living prophets will grow!

We are also seeing tons of miracles as we continue to work with the members of our ward in helping them to share the gospel with their friends! Many of the members are really getting involved in missionary work and are reaching out to us for our help! We KNOW we will find people who are being prepared to receive the gospel. The Lord works through the members EVERY DAY!

Thursday was Thanksgiving...three meals...I am still recovering from my turkey and gravy coma. But, I can never get enough potatoes. Yum.

On Friday we met with a part-member family in our ward and shared a message that we felt inspired to share on the Plan of Salvation. Brothers and sisters, I KNOW that God has a plan for us. His plan is made perfect through the Savior Jesus Christ. During the lesson, the nonmember husband was listening intently which he doesn't always do and we could tell he was feeling the Spirit. This just confirmed to me that what we were teaching is TRUE!

On Saturday we felt inspired to visit a referral from someone we met on the street. The referral's name was Joanne. So, we went and visited her and it turns out she is actually a less-active member of our ward who hadn't been visited by missionaries in a while! She was SO nice! She also happened to live in the same building as the less-active whose bathroom I fell asleep in last Saturday...I totally did it again. There's something about the apartments in that building around 2pm haha! 

On Sunday night we visited with another part-member family. This time the wife is not a member. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We started talking about faith and ask how a belief in Jesus Christ had motivated them to act. The wife said, "Well I was just thinking about Emma (her daughter), she got baptized." It was amazing! Unfortunately, in my weakness I did not follow up very well...just praying for another opportunity like that one to talk to her about baptism.

We also visited a family last night and joined in their annual family tradition of doing a Greek dance around the Christmas tree! It was SO FUN!!

To end our week last night, we attended a baptism in a bordering ward! It was awesome. The Spirit was super strong! We also got to help an investigator of another set of missionaries since they were helping the investigator who was getting baptized. We got to tell her about how Jesus Christ suffered for her so that she can have peace. I love telling people about that. It is so beautiful. His love is so beautiful.

Well, that's all for this week! Thank you for all of your love, support and prayers!

I love you all!

Love,

Sister Lewis