Miracles Happen! Hearts Change :)
Date: April 16, 2012
Area: Flushing, Queens
Companion - Sister Allen
My heart is Full!! If you want to know what brings TRUE happiness! THIS IS IT :) The gospel of Jesus Christ. Many people especially here in NY Try to find happiness in shopping, drugs, alcohol, expensive clothing....Material or "Worldly Things".ETC That my friends is NOT true happiness! True happiness is in LIVING the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In obeying the commandments and doing what our Heavenly Father has asked us to do. Reading our Scriptures DAILY, praying Daily, and going to church EVERY Sunday and worthily partaking of the Sacrament. That is what brings True happiness! I am Happy! Are you? I sure hope so :)
So where do these weeks keep going? I am not sure! ha anywho...So Monday we had a Family Home Evening with a bunch of Youth from our ward. We were able to talk about the importance of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the importance of the Book of Mormon. It was really neat and got them excited about sharing the gospel with their friends. After that we were able to run over the Ayala Family's house and have a Family Home Evening with the Entire Family! We were able to have Sandra a return missionary come to the lesson with us. We first started out by doing something that my family once did for a Family night, we had cut out hearts and on each heart we had them each write something nice about every member in the family. This was really nice to see them get excited about complimenting each other. Sister Ayala really like this activity and it as neat to see her heart changing little by little. After that we talked about the importance of familys. Then Sister Ayala brought up the baptism of her girls. She told us that Juliana was ready but that Alexandra was not. We then were able to talk to ask Alexandra why she did not feel ready and she did not really know why. So we went ahead and read what the Lord requires of his children to be baptized. We read Doctrine and Covenants 20:37. Then we asked Alexandra which one of those requirements did she need help with. She then replied none of them. Then we asked her what she thought that meant, to which she replied, "I am ready." After that we were able to watch the video on Mormon.org about the inactive family from El Salvador that are trying to make it to the temple. The spirit was really strong during this movie and hearts were softened. They all agreed that they are going to work their hardest to be able to make it back to church as a family. At the end of the Movie Alexandra was like, "I am ready!" They both accepted the date and are working for May 6th! My heart was full! I know that when the spirit is there, both the investigator and missionary can learn. It is amazing to me to see how the atonement can and will change lives is we allow it to work on us. The atonement is a gift to all of us. We just need to make use of it. It is REAL :)
Wednesday we were able to have a Zone Conference! Can I just tell you how much I LOVE Zone conferences!?!?! Well I do LOVE them! President Nelson is just so inspired! We had the privilage of hearing form 3 old missionarys who have gone home. They are like mission legends. Elder Rudoz, Elder Doyle and Elder Anan. It was really nice to hear from them and the advice that they had for each of us. It is neat to be able to learn from other missionarys. The main topic of the Zone Conference was lOVE. We need to Love our Companions, Love the people that we serve, Love our investigators and Love the Members. Love should be our motive for everything that we do. For we all know that the greatest act of Love was that of the Atonement- or the sacrifice of our savior for each and every one of us. I had the opportunity to participate in a musical number that was all about our Savior Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice. I am so thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for all that he has done for us. Without him Nothing would be possible.
We were able to meet with a Less Active named Anna Pena and she had friend named Manuel who not knowing I had actually talked to the other day in the street. We were able to have a lesson with both him and her. We are excited to meet with him again and to keep teaching him. We also were able to finally meet with Glady's. She is someone that Hermana Lambert and I were teaching. Anyways were able to teach her the first half of the plan of Salvation. She loved it and has been reading from the Book of Mormon ever since we gave it to her. Also her cousin who lives with her also took the Book of Mormon to work and began reading it. We invited Gladys to be baptized and set a date. She is so excited and willing to meet with us.
We were able to have another really good lesson with the Ayalas family. We read Alma 24 with the whole entire family and we were able talk about burying our weapons of war. CLARE VATERLAUS if you are reading this- you know what happens next :) haha We then talked about "Burying our OWN weapons of war". So we had everyone write down on a piece of toilet paper somethings that they wanted to give up or be better at, in order to be living more intune with what our Heavenly Father wants us to do. Then after that we flushed them down the toilet and promised to never do those things again. It was really neat to see them all get excited about the activity and making changes in their own lives.
Sunday was GREAT! We had stake conference! It was AMAZING! I just love the QUEENS stake! It is so diverse and there are people that come literally from ALL OVER THE WORLD :) Unfortunately the family Ayala were all SUPER sick and were not able to come to church. However the lord had another miracle in mind. When we got to stake conference thinking that there was no one with us. Sister Allen suddenly nugged me as we both spoted one of our English Class students named Wilmer came to Stake Conference. He stayed the entire time and loved it! He said that he is planning on coming to church next week! It made me SO happy! Just another testimony that the Lord is really preparing these people all over the place to hear the gospel. We just need to go and find them!
I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is True! We have a living prophet today who leads and guides us named President Thomas S. Monson. Jesus Christ Lives and loves us! The Book of Mormon is the key! If we read it and pray every day we will never fall!
I love you all!
Love Hermana Gray
P.s. Happy Birthday Aunt Connie Gray! I love you!
"For most of us, however, what is required is not to die for the Church but to live for it. The price of discipleship may mean leaving behind many things. Some have learned how dear a price it is to leave loved ones in order to be baptized. Yet Jesus taught, “Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life” (Matt. 19:29 ~ President James E. Faust
So where do these weeks keep going? I am not sure! ha anywho...So Monday we had a Family Home Evening with a bunch of Youth from our ward. We were able to talk about the importance of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the importance of the Book of Mormon. It was really neat and got them excited about sharing the gospel with their friends. After that we were able to run over the Ayala Family's house and have a Family Home Evening with the Entire Family! We were able to have Sandra a return missionary come to the lesson with us. We first started out by doing something that my family once did for a Family night, we had cut out hearts and on each heart we had them each write something nice about every member in the family. This was really nice to see them get excited about complimenting each other. Sister Ayala really like this activity and it as neat to see her heart changing little by little. After that we talked about the importance of familys. Then Sister Ayala brought up the baptism of her girls. She told us that Juliana was ready but that Alexandra was not. We then were able to talk to ask Alexandra why she did not feel ready and she did not really know why. So we went ahead and read what the Lord requires of his children to be baptized. We read Doctrine and Covenants 20:37. Then we asked Alexandra which one of those requirements did she need help with. She then replied none of them. Then we asked her what she thought that meant, to which she replied, "I am ready." After that we were able to watch the video on Mormon.org about the inactive family from El Salvador that are trying to make it to the temple. The spirit was really strong during this movie and hearts were softened. They all agreed that they are going to work their hardest to be able to make it back to church as a family. At the end of the Movie Alexandra was like, "I am ready!" They both accepted the date and are working for May 6th! My heart was full! I know that when the spirit is there, both the investigator and missionary can learn. It is amazing to me to see how the atonement can and will change lives is we allow it to work on us. The atonement is a gift to all of us. We just need to make use of it. It is REAL :)
Wednesday we were able to have a Zone Conference! Can I just tell you how much I LOVE Zone conferences!?!?! Well I do LOVE them! President Nelson is just so inspired! We had the privilage of hearing form 3 old missionarys who have gone home. They are like mission legends. Elder Rudoz, Elder Doyle and Elder Anan. It was really nice to hear from them and the advice that they had for each of us. It is neat to be able to learn from other missionarys. The main topic of the Zone Conference was lOVE. We need to Love our Companions, Love the people that we serve, Love our investigators and Love the Members. Love should be our motive for everything that we do. For we all know that the greatest act of Love was that of the Atonement- or the sacrifice of our savior for each and every one of us. I had the opportunity to participate in a musical number that was all about our Savior Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice. I am so thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for all that he has done for us. Without him Nothing would be possible.
We were able to meet with a Less Active named Anna Pena and she had friend named Manuel who not knowing I had actually talked to the other day in the street. We were able to have a lesson with both him and her. We are excited to meet with him again and to keep teaching him. We also were able to finally meet with Glady's. She is someone that Hermana Lambert and I were teaching. Anyways were able to teach her the first half of the plan of Salvation. She loved it and has been reading from the Book of Mormon ever since we gave it to her. Also her cousin who lives with her also took the Book of Mormon to work and began reading it. We invited Gladys to be baptized and set a date. She is so excited and willing to meet with us.
We were able to have another really good lesson with the Ayalas family. We read Alma 24 with the whole entire family and we were able talk about burying our weapons of war. CLARE VATERLAUS if you are reading this- you know what happens next :) haha We then talked about "Burying our OWN weapons of war". So we had everyone write down on a piece of toilet paper somethings that they wanted to give up or be better at, in order to be living more intune with what our Heavenly Father wants us to do. Then after that we flushed them down the toilet and promised to never do those things again. It was really neat to see them all get excited about the activity and making changes in their own lives.
Sunday was GREAT! We had stake conference! It was AMAZING! I just love the QUEENS stake! It is so diverse and there are people that come literally from ALL OVER THE WORLD :) Unfortunately the family Ayala were all SUPER sick and were not able to come to church. However the lord had another miracle in mind. When we got to stake conference thinking that there was no one with us. Sister Allen suddenly nugged me as we both spoted one of our English Class students named Wilmer came to Stake Conference. He stayed the entire time and loved it! He said that he is planning on coming to church next week! It made me SO happy! Just another testimony that the Lord is really preparing these people all over the place to hear the gospel. We just need to go and find them!
I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is True! We have a living prophet today who leads and guides us named President Thomas S. Monson. Jesus Christ Lives and loves us! The Book of Mormon is the key! If we read it and pray every day we will never fall!
I love you all!
Love Hermana Gray
P.s. Happy Birthday Aunt Connie Gray! I love you!
"For most of us, however, what is required is not to die for the Church but to live for it. The price of discipleship may mean leaving behind many things. Some have learned how dear a price it is to leave loved ones in order to be baptized. Yet Jesus taught, “Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life” (Matt. 19:29 ~ President James E. Faust
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