January 2, 2018
Family y amigos!
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| New Year's Eve, eating our super rico (delicious) Haitian food! |
This week was super crazy! We always have something to be doing, which is really good. Hermana Vasquez and I get along really well, and she has a super strong testimony and knows exactly what to say in the right time, which means she is in tune with the spirit. I have opened up a lot, and learned to trust my Español and recognize and follow the promptings of the spirit.
We have had quite a few miracles this week (okay there are always miracles but these were especially grand!). One of them is that Yair (12 years old) is preparing to be baptized! He is a very intelligent kid and remembers everything we talk about in great detail. But also wants to pray to know if it is true. When he receives his answer his older brother who is a member will be able to baptize him.
Another miracle is that an investigator for a few months who has almost dropped us several times, is finally receptive to truly pray to know if the Book of Mormon and this church is true. His wife was very Catholic and he didn't believe in religion, but both their hearts have been softened and they wants to know if this is true. I think the thing he is most scared about is having to change, but he already has so much already. I love seeing the difference the gospel makes in people's lives!
Another miracle is that two of our menos activos we are visiting (one 17 and one 19) are now thinking about serving missions! We are helping Roller study Preach my Gospel and Alexander is learning to be more sensitive to the spirit.
Miracle number 4: Luis (one of our investigators for 3 months) broke both his arms and can't work! This seems terrible, right? BUT NO. He can't work so he is at home all day long! What does this mean for us missionaries? We can pass by every single day if we want and he has lots of time to ready the Libro de Mormon! It's a great blessing in disguise and we have seen a lot of progress with Luis because of it!
Last miracle (of this email, not of our week), a man approached us and told us he had some questions. He continued to ask about who Joseph Smith is to us, if we worship him, or God, and who Jehovah is, and a few more questions which we were able to answer pretty easily. But normally when people ask us questions like this it's because they want to argue with us or try to prove us wrong in some way, but this man was genuinely sincere. After he told us he respects us a lot because there's a lot of other teenagers doing bad things and it's rare to find them doing good things, and he wishes his sons could find God and be like us etc and started to tell us a lot about his life. This man was searching for goodness and went out of his way to get his questions answered. And he will! We are visiting him this Thursday to answer all of his questions and help him find more joy and goodness through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There are so many miracles and I'm so grateful for this full year that I get to be a missionary. I have learned so much already and know that when we sincerely approach God and ask for His help, for His guidance to change and become the person He wants us to be, He will always give us direction and the experiences we need to learn and be a better version of ourselves. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father! And I hope each of you can feel His deep love for you.
Love you all! Never forget to do the simple things, they make all the difference.
Hermana Briggs
3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.
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