Week 92

FINDING THE CHOSEN VESSELS

As you know, Elder Williams and I have been really focusing on finding the people who are truly prepared to hear this message. This last week I was studying in Moroni 7:29-31 and I read something I really liked. I read about how people who spread the gospel are to do it the Lord's way and they are to share repentance to the "chosen vessels."  I was thinking about what that meant and I think it means we are supposed to find the people who are really willing and interested in learning about this gospel. We have been praying hard for that... 

We have a new investigator from this last week. His name is Brother Xue. We found him at the park last Sunday with his daughter. He was sitting around the pond with his daughter and he told us how he has been recently looking for a new way of life. So, we scheduled a time to meet with him. We met with him and shared the first lesson and he loved it. Not only did he commit to coming to church for three hours, but he also committed to coming to a baptismal service and getting baptized at the end of August. He came to church on Sunday and made sure to take notes of the things he liked. We learned about the spirit in priesthood and he shared with us that while we were talking about the spirit, he had an impression that he as a father alone cannot raise his kids and he believes he needs to bring his family into this church in order to raise them. It was such a miracle!

We are also helping the Wang family progress. This last week we gave the older brother a baptismal goal. The sons also came to church on Sunday. They came to church and asked a lot of questions about getting baptized. It seems they are really interested.

We are also helping other people who have been showing real interest. We have a lady with the same Chinese last name as me who is currently investigating and she decided she wants to start bringing her son to church on Sunday.

And finally, we had an interesting experience this week. We were contacting when we talked to this lady who asked if we would go to her home and talk to her son. She told us that her son is really lazy and she wants him to start coming to church. So, we visited them on Saturday and her son really is very lazy.  He acted like he did not want to talk to us at all, but I was able to get to him in the end. It was his birthday yesterday, so we dropped off a present for him last night. The mom is really hoping he can get baptized, but first we need him to be willing to get off the couch.

Thank you for all the prayers! I will email more miracles next week, so keep praying for me!

Love you all!

Elder Quist