Happy Monday family and friends!
This week was absolutely amazing! One of the best things about the mission is the ability to feel the spirit so strongly at times. This week those moments flooded in! And I want to share one with you that I will never forget.
This past Wednesday Hermana Sutherland and I were knocking some doors trying to find some Escogidos. We didn't find any, but we had very powerful experience. We started and got some great doors slammed in our faces. Gotta love it! In our last zone meeting, our zone leaders taught us that we are looking for red tomatoes here! Some tomatoes are green and not ready to be picked, but the red ones are out there. After people kept on shutting the door Hermana Sutherland said, "They are just green tomatoes!" I laughed and said, "Or they are just the ones who are going to burn." (Jacob 5 :) ) Anyway.. we ended up talking to a man. He was familiar with the church and had a couple of Mormon friends. Unfortunately, he had turned to the wrong sources to seek information about the church. We ended up discussing about the Book of Mormon and its truth. I asked him if he had even read it. He told us "No, that is like reading Satan's bible and there is no need to see if i is true." He ended up talking about Joseph Smith. And I'll never forget the way he pointed at us, looked us straight in the eye, and said, "If you knew that things I know about Joseph Smith, you wouldnt believe he was a prophet" At this moment I felt a fire in my heart. Not a fire of contention, but a fire of truth. I immediately looked him right in the eye and said, "Im sorry, but I know that that is not true. I know and testify that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God." Hermana Sutherland immediately followed and bore powerful testimony of Joseph Smith. After we shook hands and parted our ways. As we left,we looked at each other filled with the spirit. We both felt so strongly as we were testifying that we were not alone. There were spirits there with us, testifying. As we walked to the next house singing Praise to the Man, we literally felt hands on our shoulders.
I know with my whole heart that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. That Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in the Sacred Grove. They restored the same exact church that Jesus Christ restored when he was on the Earth through Joseph Smith. How blessed are we to be apart of it. Our ward mission leader told us our desires to be here on the mission go back to our testimony of a 14 year old boy who came to the Lord with a question. I testify with my whole heart that it happened. And I challenge you to gain a stronger testimony for yourself. This is the one true church and we are in the final dispensation.
This is His work! I love you guys lots and hope you have a great miracle filled week!
Hermana Hubert
This week was absolutely amazing! One of the best things about the mission is the ability to feel the spirit so strongly at times. This week those moments flooded in! And I want to share one with you that I will never forget.
This past Wednesday Hermana Sutherland and I were knocking some doors trying to find some Escogidos. We didn't find any, but we had very powerful experience. We started and got some great doors slammed in our faces. Gotta love it! In our last zone meeting, our zone leaders taught us that we are looking for red tomatoes here! Some tomatoes are green and not ready to be picked, but the red ones are out there. After people kept on shutting the door Hermana Sutherland said, "They are just green tomatoes!" I laughed and said, "Or they are just the ones who are going to burn." (Jacob 5 :) ) Anyway.. we ended up talking to a man. He was familiar with the church and had a couple of Mormon friends. Unfortunately, he had turned to the wrong sources to seek information about the church. We ended up discussing about the Book of Mormon and its truth. I asked him if he had even read it. He told us "No, that is like reading Satan's bible and there is no need to see if i is true." He ended up talking about Joseph Smith. And I'll never forget the way he pointed at us, looked us straight in the eye, and said, "If you knew that things I know about Joseph Smith, you wouldnt believe he was a prophet" At this moment I felt a fire in my heart. Not a fire of contention, but a fire of truth. I immediately looked him right in the eye and said, "Im sorry, but I know that that is not true. I know and testify that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God." Hermana Sutherland immediately followed and bore powerful testimony of Joseph Smith. After we shook hands and parted our ways. As we left,we looked at each other filled with the spirit. We both felt so strongly as we were testifying that we were not alone. There were spirits there with us, testifying. As we walked to the next house singing Praise to the Man, we literally felt hands on our shoulders.
I know with my whole heart that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. That Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in the Sacred Grove. They restored the same exact church that Jesus Christ restored when he was on the Earth through Joseph Smith. How blessed are we to be apart of it. Our ward mission leader told us our desires to be here on the mission go back to our testimony of a 14 year old boy who came to the Lord with a question. I testify with my whole heart that it happened. And I challenge you to gain a stronger testimony for yourself. This is the one true church and we are in the final dispensation.
This is His work! I love you guys lots and hope you have a great miracle filled week!
Hermana Hubert