Гэр Бүл Минь,
So
this weekend was Easter in America AND General Conference! I'll bet
both were great! I look forward to listening to General Conference next
weekend!! Easter in Mongolia, like Christmas, isn't really known or
recognized at all except by the Church. In Mongolia, they call it the
"Red Egg Holiday," haha. There's definitely no Easter egg hunts or
Easter bunnies or talk of Christ's resurrection. Only at Church and
among Church members is there recognition and celebration about the true
meaning of Easter and The Resurrected Christ.
This week my mini-companion and I did some great work! We found two new investigators who both have baptismal dates set for April 30th.
One is a 19-year-old young man named O......, and he is really good
guy. He is the younger brother of the wife of a really strong family we
have in the ward. He didn't believe in God but he is praying and
asking....and receiving his answers! I love when Heavenly Father
answers prayers! The other is a woman named B........ Her story is
great. She is 32 and has lived in America, London and Korea for the
last 10 years or so. She used to believe in God, but stopped believing.
She feels like she has a curse or something of that nature dwelling
within her. She has really been searching for help for quite a while.
In America and Korea she had met with counselors and here in Mongolia
she has met with Shamans and Monks. They all say she is fine, but she
feels they don't understand what she's telling them. So she stopped
believing and two
Sunday's
ago decided to Google "Christian Churches." Well, the LDS Church was
the first one that popped up and so she came to church last Sunday. She
has heard of the Church and even went to church in D.C. like 10 years
ago. Anyway, we taught her two lessons this past week and they were so
great. At the beginning, we were really prompted to talk to her about
Priesthood blessings and the power in them. We offered her a blessing
and she accepted. We continued our lesson and at the end we gave her a
blessing. The things that I was prompted to tell her, promised
blessings and counsel, is 100 percent a testimony to me of how the
Spirit works with missionaries. I don't really remember it all or what I
even said, but the Spirit was so strong. We met with her the next day
for another lesson that lasted 2.5 hours... haha, but it was great. We
taught her the majority of the Message of the Restoration and her
understanding, questions,
and desire to know is just amazing. So that she could better recognize
the promptings to find her answers, she asked all who were present at
the lesson (there were 5 of us) how we all individually identify and
feel the Spirit in our lives. That was really powerful for us to bear
witness of the Spirit in our lives to her. She then asked me if I
could feel a difference from yesterday's lesson and today's lesson. I
was able to tell her that I felt that she was scared to start believing
yesterday and afraid to put her faith in God's hand like we asked her to
do, but that today she was not. I told her that I feel that she is
seeking the truth and the Spirit is touching her. She agreed and talked
about how she prayed and asked if the Book of Mormon was true, which
was homework we hadn't even given her yet! We had told her to read 3
Nephi, Chapter 17, and learn of the healing power of Jesus Christ. She
did that, then went
to the front of the Book and read the entire introduction, and the
testimonies of the 3 and 8 witnesses, Joseph Smith's Testimony, and up
to Chapter 4 in 1st Nephi. She then prayed and asked if the the things
we taught her were true and if the Book was true and went to bed. I
asked her why she prayed to know the Book of Mormon is true (because we
hadn't asked her to yet)? Her reply was, "Because the Book told me
too!" She also came to all three hours of Church again yesterday and to
the Saturday Easter Musical Fireside and to the Sunday
Book of Mormon Fireside. She is getting her answer, she said. She is
doing great so please pray for her!! She has been smoking for a lot of
years and she is working on quitting, so pray for that too! Praying for
people individually this week has been such a huge strength to me. I
have literally seen the hand of the Lord bless those I have prayed for
individually by name. Everything that is touching
Sister B........ is a result of prayer in her behalf. I feel your
prayers here for me on my behalf Mom and Dad. Thank you and I love you
so much.
This
week Mongolia started a six month Book Of Mormon reading schedule.
Look it up on Facebook: Friends of LDS Church in Mongolia and mongoliabookofmormon.org.
Check out the Facebook page though for everything that is happening in
the church here in Mongolia! The Easter Musical Fireside here this
past Saturday
was amazing. I felt the Spirit so STRONG testifying to me again that
He is Risen. I truly love my Savior! I look forward to the day
(someday) when I will fall to my knees before him, then feel Him lift me
and and feel His hug! HE LIVES! I bear witness.
Love,
Elder Harris
Saying goodbye to my companion, Elder Bilguun, before he heads off the the MTC in the Philippines for 3 weeks.
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