This week has been dang good!!! Full of unexpected miracles. On
Saturday, one of our investigators came to the adult session of stake
conference. She is the nice Italian lady that i've told you guys about. I
hope that she listened and learned and felt the spirit there, because
all of the talks were directed right at her. Everything that was said is
just what she needs! It almost seems like it is expected that she will
hear exactly what she needs every time she comes to church. And that is
probably why she keeps on coming. We have not been able to meet with her
this week, but hopefully we will on Wednesday. We should be able to set
up a bapt. date with her then, I hope.
This sunday, the robinson
family was able to come to stake conference with us. They were 20 min
late, which was freaking me out because I wanted them to come super bad,
but they made it. They really enjoyed it. Well, not so much for the
kids, but the parents did! We had dinner with them that night. We talked
most of the night about the church, structure, prayer, etc. It has been
sooo cool because they've been making comments about how we need to
find a substitute for coffee, It will be hard to get used to hearing
about all of the different presidents that we have in the church, etc.
So they pretty much are going to be baptized. We will be setting a date
with them this wednesday.
And If that all is not cool enough,
yesterday we ran into a special person named gale. We had set up an
appointment with her about 2 weeks ago, but she was not home. She
eventually called us back and said that she did want to meet with us and
set up a time to come over yesterday at 1pm. So we were happy about
that, people usually will never call you back. I think that she is the
first one ever that has called us back, in my experience. Well we took
bro. barker with us and went in to have the lesson. And this lesson is
something that I will never forget. This is one of those experiences
that you hear other people give when they come home off of their
mission. It was a very special and I could also say a sacred experience.
We went over, sat down and began to talk. In just a few minutes she
just flat out said," So what is your church really about?" And it all
started. We asked her what she knew, which were a few things that she
had heard. We told her that we had a very strong stance on the family.
And she begun to tell us many things that are going on in her life. She
just opened right up and told us soo many things. She has some guts to
do that. I have never prayed sooooo hard to ask for help from god to
help me know what to say. Because I know that I had nothing, absolutely
nothing, and i needed help sooo bad. We somehow got onto the topic of
tools that help us overcome these trials. We began to talk about the
restoration. I began to say the first vision. And up to this point, the
spirit had been super strong, but when the 1st vision was recited, the
spirit increased 10 fold. We told her about what she was feeling, and
she knew it was true. We then asked her to be baptized on the 10th of
march, and she totally accepted. It was crazy through this whole thing
because I know half the stuff that I was saying was not coming from me.
Things flowed too perfectly to have been made up by me. You guys know
me, im not a very good teacher! But God is, and he did a very, very good
job through me. This experience was one of those things that just
change your life. And one of those things that make 8 months of a
mission worth every second, in just a matter of 2 hours. It was a
miracle, there is no better way to put it.
-Elder Snedaker
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