Hola Famila!
Can't write much today.. Surgery is next Tuesday so just a week
away. I guess I’ll just keep ya updated on what happens with it.
We had a super cool experience yesterday! We were
teaching this girl who graduated last year awhile ago and she started to
progress slowly but then just disappeared and hasn't been coming to
church or meeting with us at all. We had been trying to get a hold of her
but she hadn't been texting back or anything so one of the YSA girls got a hold
of her and started asking her how she was feeling about the church and stuff
and apparently she didn't feel good about it at all and just didn't want to let
us down so she was trying to avoid us. During the lesson she had some brief
concerns that came out but the Spirit was letting us know that there was
something bigger that she needed to be resolved. It finally came out that
she did not know for sure if God was even there. She couldn't ever recall
a prayer being answered or ever feeling God's love. I remembered one of my first investigators
had the same concern and the only way that we could help him know for himself
if God was really there was for him to ask God himself. As long as we ask
a specific question, we will receive a specific answer. We asked this girl if
she had a desire to really know if God was there, she said “yes”. We
asked her if she had studied it out in her mind, she said she had. Then
we flipped to D&C 9:8 and we read that to her and helped her have the faith
to know that because she had done her part, all she had to do now was to ask
God and he would give her a special feeling to let her know if he was there. So
then we read her the song "A Child's Prayer" and assured her that her
Heavenly Father would answer her prayer. We all knelt and prayed and she began to tear up and she just looked up and said, "He's
there" and we asked her how she knew and she said "I can feel
it" it was a pretty cool experience and it changed her forever. We later
found out that she had been planning on telling us during that lesson that she
didn't want to meet with us anymore and that she wasn't interested in the
church. Crazy how the Spirit can change someone's heart like that in just
20 minutes. Now she is super stoked for the next lesson and we will just
go from here!
Siempre Cree,
Elder Creer
A Child's Prayer
1. Heavenly Father, are you really there?
And do you hear and answer ev’ry child’s prayer?
Some say that heaven is far away,
But I feel it close around me as I pray.
Heavenly Father, I remember now
Something that Jesus told disciples long ago:
“Suffer the children to come to me.”
Father, in prayer I’m coming now to thee.
And do you hear and answer ev’ry child’s prayer?
Some say that heaven is far away,
But I feel it close around me as I pray.
Heavenly Father, I remember now
Something that Jesus told disciples long ago:
“Suffer the children to come to me.”
Father, in prayer I’m coming now to thee.
2. Pray, he is there;
Speak, he is list’ning.
You are his child;
His love now surrounds you.
He hears your prayer;
He loves the children.
Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of heav’n.
Speak, he is list’ning.
You are his child;
His love now surrounds you.
He hears your prayer;
He loves the children.
Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of heav’n.
© 1984 by Janice Kapp Perry.
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