Bowling Green is doing amazing as always!
O---, the man that we found last week, is progressing SO MUCH!! We are only able to see him Saturday's because of his work, but we texted him during the week and asked how his Book of Mormon reading was going. He told us that he has been reading every single night before bed and that he likes to read a little at a time and then meditate. So then we went and saw him again on Saturday and brought one of our members with us! We asked him what he had learned from the Book of Mormon! And also, HE CAME TO CHURCH YESTERDAY!!! It was so wonderful. When we invited him on Saturday, he told us no because he didn't have the right clothes, he didn't have a ride, and he didn't feel like he was prepared. But our awesome member helped him fix all those problems, and then he came to church yesterday! Our members were so awesome and helped him feel so welcomed and helped him through the whole meeting. The lessons yesterday were also perfect because it was about the Restoration and he understood all of it! I am so excited to meet with him again this week!
We were also tracting last weekend, and it was almost time to go home, but we decided to try one more door. We knocked and it was a guy that was from El Salvador! We were able to talk to him and give him a Restoration pamphlet and set up a return appointment! When we went back this past week for our appointment, we brought an English member and we go in, and our member starts playing with his two little girls so that he is able to focus and listen to the lesson. Our member also gave the best responses to our questions and the Spirit was so strong. After we told him the first vision, he was really silent and then said, "Wow, I am trying to imagine what that would've been like." So awesome! He then said the closing prayer and did such an awesome job. We have another appointment with him this week!
We had Zone Meeting this past week and it was so awesome!!
So last Monday was kind of crazy! An elderly man in our ward has been wanting the missionaries to come to his living center for a while and present the gospel to a group of Presbyterian ladies that meet there. So we went and did that last Monday! We talked to them about the church and then they just asked us a lot of questions. It was pretty interesting and cool! Many of them had met with missionaries before. One of the ladies met with missionaries like 65 years ago, but she is 98 now. The old man from our ward feels like they could be ready to receive the gospel now, so it just goes to show every day is different. Then afterward they said, "You have to come to lunch with us! We will pay!" And so we couldn't say no! Haha! So we went down to the living centers cafeteria and ate with all these elderly ladies and it was actually pretty fun! We had a good time with them.
We were also able to do a lot of service this week! We signed up to volunteered at the Humane Society, so we went and spent some time there and walked a bunch of cute dogs! I loved it. I just love dogs so it was the perfect service! And we also went to this senior center and helped the people play bingo! Haha! It was so fun!!
We had a really spiritual sacrament meeting this week, We got to take the sacrament and one of the speakers shared a story about the wife of Marion G. Romney. He said, "The idea of becoming better isn't about digging in our heels and gritting our teeth and doing better, because we can't do it alone." I have reflected on this. I also have been playing scripture detective and really trying to understand the message God has for me in the scriptures. I have spent some time focused on Ether 12:27, really trying to take that, understand that, and apply that. I think if anything I learned this week is just how much I really depend on my Father in Heaven. I want to testify that prayer works and that Lord's hand is always in our lives if we look for it!
Hope y'all's week was great!
Con mucho Amor,
Hermana Nielson
P.S, Pictures -- I got to hold a hedgehog... ouch!
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