I just want to start off saying that I love being a
missionary! It is a lot of fun and it is so great to be able to serve the Lord
24/7 and always be thinking of Christ. And it is such an honor to see the
gospel start to change people's lives and see people progress in the kingdom of
God. And Houston is so great! Sister Stepp and I always comment about how nice
everyone here is.
This week was really good. We had a lot of powerful lessons
this week. One of the lessons we taught was to a new investigator named John.
He just walked into the Singles Ward last Sunday all by himself a and wanted to
learn more about the gospel. We taught him the Restoration this week and he
said that it made a lot of sense. He is excited to read the Book of Mormon. The
Spirit was very strong and you could tell that he was feeling it. After that
lesson I thought a lot about how it is very important for us to be converted by
the Spirit and feel that it is true and not just be convinced by how much sense
it makes. But even though that is the most important, it is still really cool
to think about how much sense this church makes. God really is the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
Another powerful lesson this week was with our investigator
Colton. We taught him on the covered porch of his trailer. While we were
talking he randomly asked us what our favorite spiritual experience was. Sister
Stepp shared an experience she had involving prayer and I talked about how I
gained a testimony. Right after I finished sharing my experience, Colton said
"Did you see that?"
"No"
"Three hummingbirds just flew in here at the exact same
time. That never happens. They felt that Spirit."
Later in the lesson we were talking about prayer. Last time
we met with him he said that he refused to pray in front of other people and he
was very adamant about it. When we were talking with him this week we asked him
why he didn't like it and he just said that it just felt weird to him. We
talked about it some more, but eventually moved on, thinking that eventually he
will pray in front of others, but it will probably take awhile longer. Then at
the end of the lesson, we asked him if we could say a prayer and he said
"Yeah, yeah! You got me! I will say it!" Sister Stepp and I just
looked at each other and we were both thinking "Well we weren't going to
ask you to, but ok!" He gave a beautiful prayer. The Spirit was very
strong. It was a testimony builder that the Holy Ghost is really the one who
does the talking and the converting. We could never have convinced him to say a
prayer in front of us, but the Spirit touched softened his heart so that he
would.
We had a huge thunderstorm on Friday night. Storms in
Houston are really cool because it down pours and they are just so big. The
streets get flooded and it is a bit scary to drive in. We ended up going home
and did training for an hour waiting for it to pass so that we wouldn't have to
drive in it. But the rain cooled everything down, so the past few days it has
been so nice outside! We even had Sunday School in the YSA ward outside
yesterday.
I hope everyone is doing well! Thank you everyone for their
emails and letters. They are very much appreciated! Remember that we are all
sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father and He is always there for us.
Love,
Sister Sylvester
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