Dear Mom,
I love being a missionary. We were very blessed by the Lord this past week and have seen many miracles and success. It's quite an amazing thing. I was told that our zone leaders said that our area is the 'most productive' in the zone and I know it's because of the Spirit that the Lord pours out on us and the members here. There is a member/missionary relationship here that I haven't seen before. A real desire among the members and branch president to invite others to come unto Christ.
This past week we've taught, visited, and called a bunch of people. A lot of the week was spent preparing for a huge activity that we had this last Saturday. It was a massive party/talent show where people sang, danced, played games, ate food, and had a ton of fun. We had many, many people there - including investigators and LA members. Several of these members also came to church on Sunday. It was a great experience and wonderful to see some LA members come back. My companion also baptized his first investigator yesterday. I was touched to hear his feelings and experiences from it that made me remember my time as a greenie which was filled with similar experiences...he said that "he had never felt the Spirit more strongly than when he lifted her up out of the water". There are experiences with the Spirit that are so...at the least emotionally touching that your joy is full, are overcome with the Spirit, "the Holy Spirit of God did come down from heaven, and did enter into their hearts, and they were filled as if with fire", etc
This past Sunday was a really good one where we got to see the fruits of our labor this past week. To sum up...
This past week we were able to visit with the mom of one investigator. This investigator has learned for a while, has a baptismal date, and we were finally able to meet their mom. They were so excited to be able to have the missionaries introduce the Gospel to their mom and it was such an amazing opportunity to see such enthusiasm and desire to share the Gospel. You could tell that they earnestly wanted their mom to have experiences and be familiar with the Gospel that they had experienced.
We have a handful of progressing investigators that we are working with and several daters lined up. Some of very solid. Each one truly a miracle and a blessing. These people aren't just another person to teach, but literal sons and daughters of God, our brothers and sisters, who need what we have and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be in the Lord's work. This is His church and His work and glory. I feel that it is a marvelous thing that He trusts us enough to allow us to have a part of it.
We have an investigator who accepts all that we tell him and who has a sincere, earnest desire to be baptized, but is stuck in a difficult situation - he is married to a young girl who is pregnant and whose parents will not allow them to be married.
Brother Maty is a friend of an RC. His friend brought him to church to play the piano. We asked if he was interested in learned about our church, and he is. He came back the next week too and we talked about him being baptized. He accepted a baptism date and now the only problem is that he lives about an hour away from the church by car.
Perhaps one of the biggest miracles that have occurred is the story of an investigator (Bro James) and the way that hearts are changed. He has learned for a little over a month, but up until recently he hadn't been progressing very much. We've meet with him a few times, and now has a desire for and a date for baptism as well.
This last Sunday, our district saw two people baptized - mostly due to the members bringing friends and family to learn. In our companionship, the investigator baptized was a 12 yr old girl who has been coming to church regularly for quite some time. She, and a group of friends, were brought in by a member and has stuck to it. Out of few of them, however, she expressed a sincere desire to learn and an appreciation for the Atonement. She recognized that even at that young stage of her life, that she needed the Atonement and did not want to have any burden of sin in her future.
This is a brief summary of this past week and I'm excited for the weeks to come. I wish there was more time to count the blessings that we've seen, but suffice it to say that the Lord will continually bless us as we follow Him and we are always indebted to Him. It's a never ending cycle of blessings! Mosiah 2: "he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever".
ขอแสดงความนับถือ, Sincerely,
เอ็ลเดอร์ ซัน Elder Sun
ผู้สอนศาสนา Missionary
ศาสนจักรของพระเยซูคริสต์แห่งวิสุทธิชนยุคสุดท้าย The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
คณะเผยแผ่ กรุงเทพฯ, ประเทศไทย Bangkok, Thailand Mission
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