Dear Family and Friends!!
This
past week has been absolutely amazing and full of miracles straight
from our loving Father in Heaven! Every single week I grow an
even greater
love for the work that we do as representatives of Jesus Christ. I know
that He sends us to God's children to bring them salvation!
We saw HUGE miracles with rounding up this week. What rounding up means
is Sunday morning before church starts we go knock on every ones door and
wake them up and commit them to come to church one last time. It is
extremely effective and I have seen miracles from it! But when I got
here to Plantation they hadn't really been doing it so we have been
putting it into action and this week proved the miracles that come from
it! Sunday morning we went to go round up a family who committed to come
to church on Monday but then disappeared the rest of the week. We
knocked on their door and the mom rolled out of bed and answered the
door. We then blew her away with our energy and faith and began telling
her how excited God is for her family to come to church at nine. Then
she explained how she had way to much to do so she wouldn't be able to
make it. But then Elder Wardell and I began to testify of Christ and how
much strength He will give to her by making the sacrifice to come! You
could see this daughter of God's face change as her heart began to
soften. Then finally she said, "Well kids, you wanna go?" They exclaimed
they did! "Well go get ready then," she said. Then an hour later their
entire family walked into church, felt the Spirit, and are now preparing
to be baptized next Sunday all because we rounded them up for Church.
We must use all of our tools as a missionary to be what the Lord expects
us to be! The same principle applies to anything in life as well. As we
use every single tool that God has given us, He WILL grant us success!
Saturday was
one of the most powerful days of my entire mission thus far! Elder
Wardell and myself had an amazing converting companionship study in the
morning and spiritually created through role-playing that started off
our day strong. Then we left the apartment on time and were exactly
obedient and went off to see our first appointment. It was with a
part-member family. The daughter was baptized three years ago and the
mom has been taught by twelve different missionaries and was set on
reading the entire Book of Mormon before she even considered to be
baptized. But we went in that lesson with full faith that she was going
to be baptized Sunday. As we taught her we showed her lots of charity
and testified of the reality of the Atonement of Christ. Her heart was
softened and she committed and was baptized Sunday! Huge miracles from
the Spirit of God! As Elder Wardell and myself walked away from her
house we both looked at each other and were amazing once again at the
power of God!
Every single
week out here as a representative of Jesus Christ I am blessed to learn
and grow even more! I love my Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ
more than anything. And I would encourage absolutely everyone to show
that love that you have for God by doing what he would have you do. And I
promise therein lies eternal happiness!
Let us all PRESS FOREWORD WITH FAITH IN CHRIST!
Love ya'll!
Elder Pond
