Hello Everyone!
Well as you have all been informed, I was really sick last
week… but thanks to you all for your thoughts and prayers, I got better quickly
and I was able to get out of the house and go to work! I am so happy!
The week has started out so wonderfully. Yesterday was
church and wow… it was such a beautiful day. My companion was able to find a
new investigator when he did intercambios
(exchanges) with different Elders this week when I was sick. The new investigator’s
name is Carmen. She is so awesome and she impressed me when I met her. She has
an open mind and a sincere desire and she told me when I was getting to know
her she is trying to find the find the true church! Also Delia, Vicente’s
girlfriend came too! It was so wonderful. It was the fist time she has gone to
another church for years. In Gospel Principles class she said, “I have never
felt the Spirit like this. Here it is so different and I feel the Spirit so
strong.” Later Vicente also testified of
the truthfulness of the Gospel in the class, they both have noticed the
difference in their relationship as they have lived the Gospel. They are so
happy and you can see it glow from them.
Carmen had a wonderful experience in the church and cried
because she desired that her family could also be at church to experience the
joy she had been feeling! Later on, Vicente gave me his Book of Mormon and he
had written his testimony in the front cover. It said I know God the Father and
His Son, Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and that the Book of Mormon is
the Word of God. Later, during the third hour of church, we were talking about
a talk from general conference called “I Believe”. We were talking about how
the word “believe” can mean a lot of things depending on how we use it, but we
were talking about how it means in a sense a knowing of something. Then
Vicente, shared his testimony and said aloud this time I know God and His Son
Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true and that
this is the true church! The power of his testimony was amazing. I am humbled
to be a servant of God as a full time missionary, and to be able to see and
feel the love God has for His children. I love these people. I am so grateful for
the hard times and the good times. It really is God helping us become more like
his Son, Jesus Christ, and through being like him and following him, we will be
able return to our Father in Heaven
3 Nephi 9:14-15 - In the Book of Mormon
14)Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will come unto me ye shall
have eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and
whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto
me.
15) Behold, I am Jesus
Christ the Son of God. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things that
in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and
the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name.
Love you all!
Elder Waidmann
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