So two interesting stories from the week that didnt make it into the skype conversation yesterday, here they are! enjoy
first off, we were teaching a less active couple that recently got married in the branch. We were teaching the first lesson, talking about the great apostacy, when something fell from the ceiling and landed behind one of the pieces of furniture. We all kinda stopped and looked over, but then shrugged when we didnt see anyting and kept the lesson going... So of course, all biggest distractions always, ALWAYS occur when we are sharing the first vision, there i was telling the story when all of the sudden a HUGE spider, almost as big as the one from my last spider story, almost the size of my hand, absolutely HUGE came SPRINTINg into the middle of all of us from behind the piece of furniture... We realized why it had made a bit of a thud sound when it fell cuz the thing was MASSIVE!!! But even more scary was how INCREDIBLY fast it ran!!!! So in the middle of the first vision, the wife screams, almost does a backflip, no better said backflop, off the back of the couch and starts running into the other room... wait whoops did i say the wife? oh wait that was actually me that did that... but i sware i wasnt the only one, the others screamed as well and stood up to run... but ya so the worst part was of course that we didnt manage to kill it, it hid somewhere behind the couch where we were sitting, and then trying to act calm and invite the spirit again we sat down and kept the discussion going, with some occasional twitches of fear and all...
K so the other story real quick! Last night we went to a recent converts house to fill out her papers to register her in seminary. It was like 8:30 and pitch dark, we didnt see any lights on in the house, but knocked anyways. Nothing. We knocked a second time, and waited a moment more. Then, out of nowhere, the door just slowely swung open ALL ON ITS OWN!!! My comp and i looked at each other, confused, then peeked inside, sure that somebody was hiding behind the door or something, but didnt see anyone... Slightly creeped out, we then heard a really screachy voice say ´´who is it? what do you need?´´ ya, that was creepy!!! We asked for the recent convert, and then we saw her mom who had just woken up walking towards the door, slightly sick, and hence the weird voice, but we sure arent sure how the door opened all on its own
Alright so this week has been sooooo awesome with respect to the family we are doing the wedding for!!! We managed to raise the money and get ahold of all their birth records and all from other cities, and longs story short its been a week full of small miracles!!! But i want to share a bit more about something really neat that happened as we were in a lesson with the dad. For years the dad in this family was the reason they didnt get married and baptized and sealed sooner, he just didnt want to... but he told us this week that what really made the change in him was the book of mormon. While his daughter was on the mission, she told him to do her just one small favor. Read the book of mormon. He did it, and he said that even though he didnt want to believe it, he could not deny it was a book inspired of God. He said that he knew first from what he felt, then from the answers he found, and then from changes he saw in his life that it is indeed the word of God. So ya thanks to the power of this book he is now getting ready to get baptized and has his eyes set on going to the temple with his family!!!
Les testifico que no hay ningún libro que sea más correcto que el Libro de Mormón sobre la faz de la tierra. Sé que al leerlo uno siempre se acerca más a Dios, y eso porque contiene la plenitud del Evangelio de Jesucristo. Es interesante, aunque muchas personas en fin rechazan nuestro mensaje, aunque lo hagan de manera tenaz y ya no quieran nada que ver con la iglesia, siempre, siempre, siempre cada persona que tan sólo lee el libro un poquito y ora a Dios para preguntar si es un libro verdadero recibe una respuesta. He conocido a muchas personas aquí que me dicen ´´sé que es verdad. Sentí algo muy especial cuando leí y oré, mas sin embargo no estoy listo para cambiar mi vida, estoy contento donde estoy...´´ Sé que el Libro de Mormón se tradujo por José Smith, y que testifica del Hijo de Dios. Lo dejo en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
los amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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