Hey y'all!
I hope your week was peachy. I had such a spiritually satisfying week. I had been praying a lot recently for God to humble me, and humble me he did. My eyes really opened up to some questions I had and I recognized some areas in myself that I can work on. God is great like that, James 1:5. No greater truth than that, I am grateful for my relationship with Him. No single thing on this earth compares to it, I promise you that!
Now physically, this week was real interesting. I mean every week here is interesting, but so far this one took the cake.
On Thursday, we were out in Twin City. All day I had felt prompted to talk to everyone I saw. I avoided randomly pulling over and brushed the feeling off. Well about the fourth time I felt that, I drove past two girls sitting on their porch. We turned around and drove back to their house. We parked and as we were walking up we noticed they were no longer there, Sister Blackburn encouraged us to go anyway. As we approach the driveway a car was driving towards us, so we waved. He was turning into the driveway as we began to walk up (those situations are always awkward, but hey no growth in the comfort zone). We walked up and got to talking, turns out we had a lot in common. He grew up in Williamsburg, worked in Richmond, is a twin, and said he served a mission for his church in Chile, Rancagua. It was crazy! We invited him to come to church, and he said he has been looking for a new church! He said he would come the following weekend. Then he offered us some of his Chicken's eggs and then gave me his sunglasses. Haha! He told us to be careful around there, and the following two people said the exact same thing. We took the hint, and drove home. We weren't sure what to do, we had planned our evening there. We prayed for guidance and when we got back into Swainsboro we decided to call the girl we met last weekend at the park.
We had been texting scriptures and thoughts back and fourth all week, and we were excited to see her again! When we called a man answered, and we realized I saved the name with the wrong number. It turned out to be her friend, the man who resembles Jesus (to me). Anyway, we met him at the park and had another great lesson. I'm convinced there is no such thing as coincidences in this life, God is far too detailed to make any mistakes. He is so curious! We invited him to come to church and he invited us to Revival with his church on Saturday night.
So we went! First Revival in the South!! Turn or burn!!! Hence the title, that was the overall message. There was a lot of praising and the people were so welcoming. It was a fun time. He is seriously so awesome, he really wants to learn all he can about Jesus Christ and His gospel. He came to church the next day too!
Another one of our current investigators is having a hard time at work, but finds so much peace in God's message. He really recognizes the spirit and desires to dwell in the peace it brings. He wants to read the whole Book of Mormon, so we highlighted several chapters and verses that capture the central messages to help him start. He recognizes the love we have for him, appreciates our dedication to help him, and is acting on his desire to help himself!
I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to lead others closer to Christ. I intend to do it for the rest of my life, but I'm enjoying the time I have as a missionary to seek those searching. I just love it here! Swainsboro is so great.
On another note, we were tracting yesterday and someone called the police on us. He asked us what we were doing and so we told him were talking about God! He laughed and told us to be careful. He was cool.
We also met a preacher from Florida on that street who wants to read the Book of Mormon, truth will prevail!
Reflect often on yourself, if you're on the right path then hold on! If you feel like you're not, then you've already made the first step towards getting there!
1 Corinthians 2:9
"But as it is written, Eye
I love y'all, every single one of ya! Have a blessed rest of your week.
Sister Morrill
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