The new area is wayyy cool! I love the favorita. The members are really really nice and willing to help us. And we´ve already found a few people to teach. The first lesson we had was with a lady that´s heard the missionaries on and off for several years. She is very receptive and actually comes from the same small town where Elder Castillo is from #besttwoyears. The spirit was very powerful and she accepted a baptismal date for the 29th of November. She feels like she hasn´t ever recieved an answer so we´re helping her to search with more diligence and faith to recieve one. She also committed to coming to church on sunday... but didn´t make it. A member went by but she was sleeping...
Saturday was awwwesome!!!
Elder Christofferson came to speak as well as Elder Gonzalez of the seventy. We all had to get there before 8:30. Our apartment got there at like 7:45. It was one of the most peaceful experiences i´ve had in a chapel recently. The missionaries that were already there were sitting down quietly studying the scriptures, and we were able to be there till about 9:30 listening to prelude, studying and pondering. Elder Christofferson spoke about how Christ always did things that pleased the Father. He really spoke very little and then left it up to questions. One of the questions was how his conversion went. He said that there wasn´t one specific moment but rather many different levels and experiences where he had gone growing in his faith and testimony. He spoke about how in a family trip where they participated in the palmyra pagent, he had gone alone to the sacred grove taken off his shoes as he entered and knelt down to pray for an hour to recieve an answer of whether the Church and everything was true. And what was his answer??? nothing!!! But two weeks later he was studying his scriptures and got an answer.
He talked to us a lot about the Book of Mormon and about bring all of the doubts back to that keystone. He bore a powerful witness of it and invited us to all use it and study it and recieve revelation through it. It was amazing to hear him speak. When the time was about up he started talking more about his testimony of Christ. The spirit was so strong. I just wanted to stay there.
I really felt the confirmation that he´s one of the Twelve Apostles and a special witness of Jesus Christ.
I know that the Church is true, that the Book of Mormon is convincing evidence of that.
I love you all!!!
Love,
Elder Fullmer
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