Tortillas: 5
This week was a giant amazing blessing from the Lord.
Mejor Milagro:
Months ago, Elder Maynes and I were leaving our home after a quick bathroom brake, when he suggested that we went and contacted the tortilla shop across the street. I was hesitant, but we went. As he was talking to the woman making tortillas, I began to talk to a man an woman behind us waiting. I soon came to find out that they were actually members, but that they had been inactive from the church for a couple of years. We asked for their number, and set another day that we could go and visit their family. We began to rekindle their testimony and teach them the gospel of Jesus Christ. The first two weeks that we invited them to church, they did not come, but once they came the third week as a family, the have continued to come every week. They are now preparing seriously to be sealed in the temple, attending reading the Book of Mormon like crazy, and even in the ward choir haha! Now, in this family there is a boy named Franklin of 12 years. His 3 older siblings had already been baptized, but he was left behind. We began to work with him, but he was not interested, not seeing a need. Thanks to the power of the Book of Mormon, which his parents began to read often with him, and the help of the members of the ward, Franklins heart was softened. He went from hiding from us when we came to visit us, to changing every time we returned. I am so grateful that the Lord lead us to this family that was prepared to come back to faithfulness, and allow us to participate in helping them become an eternal family.
Testimony Time:
The Lord has called all of us to come unto him, to follow his commandments, and to become disciples of Jesus Christ. He has given us the great blessing to be able to serve our brothers and sister, shoulder to shoulder with him. He calls each of us to this discipleship, and as we choose to follow him and model our lives after the manner that Jesus Christ lived, we will find that we can find our life as we lose it. We will feel weak and helpless, taking upon us this mantel of discipleship, but the glorious thing is that he promises us to instruct us and lead us. He will guide us and mold us as we give all of ourselves to him, and as this scripture in Moroni 7:31,"minister according to the word of his command". As we search for this word of his command, and then choose to act in faith with what he instructs, we will see all his glorious power. We can as him specifically what we lack. We can ask what more we need to do. In fact, it is necessary that we ask these questions. I can testify greatly that the path of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest and most fulfilling path that we can take. Really, losing our life for him may be hard at first, but once we do it we will know that we have not lost it, but found it. I love my God so much, and my Saviour Jesus Christ. I work each day to be the best for them, and work to model my life after the way they want. I invite all to do the same, an in no moment will you regret it. In the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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