#LIGHTtheWORLD in a Worldwide Day of Service December 1

He is Risen: John the Beloved's Witness of the Resurrection

The Apostle John provides his eyewitness account of the 

last events in the Savior's life and his Resurrection

The Resurrection and the Atonement of Christ are the pinnacle events in the history of the world. The darkness and sadness of Christ's crucifixion did not endure. Christ was resurrected, enabling the resurrection of all mankind. In our lives we will have our dark days, but because of Jesus Christ we can have hope in overcoming our trials and ultimately returning to live with our Heavenly Father.

“Let the Holy Spirit guide"

Hello world outside of Missouri, This week was a crazy one!

We started the week with exchanges. I stayed here in Liberty and Sister Munoz came. We started the day with a prayer of faith...and the way that works is you ask God what miracle he is willing to provide for you that day. Then pray for that miracle and tell him what you are going to do on your side to make it happen. So we knew that God would help us find 2 new investigators by the end of the day, and we would do our part by talking to 10 unknown people and inviting those people to be baptized. And guess what...miracles happened. We ended up talking to 22 people, finding 3 new investigators and another one that lives in a different area, and we also got in with 2 less actives that never open their door.

Monument to the Eight Witnesses

of the Book of Mormon,

Liberty, Missouri

For some reason we think that we have to go through this life alone, but we can call on the powers of heaven whenever we what...and a lot of power comes from being accountable to the Lord, but even more power comes from humbly holding God accountable to his promises.

Then throughout the rest of the week, the Jail was really busy, which was an answer to prayers; because we had been super slow for awhile. But more and more non-members have been coming through, some with members, some just curious to learn. It's amazing to see how God truly prepares people to receive this gospel. Wow. I'm just so lucky to serve here.

Sister Day and Sister Williams 

On Sunday a really interesting thing happened. We were in church, when I saw someone and the spirit instantly told me that we needed to go to her house after church. So after church we started doing some finding, and knocking on doors, but the spirit again gently reminded me that we really needed to go visit that sister. So we went. As we walked in we just started talking, she told us that she had been having some pretty rough few weeks. We showed her a video, she began to cry and ask us some personal questions about what we would do if we had someone in our life who was mentally suffering as she was, and if it would be easier for everyone if she was gone. I began to cry as the spirit prompted me to say certain things. As we were leaving she looked me in the eye and thanked me repeatedly for the answers I had given her...and told us that while her husband was gone this week she planned to take her life and that the things the spirit had taught her while I spoke had saved her life. I stood there almost numb. What if I hadn't listened to the spirit? She lived on the opposite side of our area and we could have easily justified not going due to time.

BUT our Heavenly Father loves all his children so dearly. I know that we are where we are, in the circumstances we are in, for a very specific reason. He has a plan, he loves us and the Holy Ghost can guide our lives if we allow it.

I love you all! And we hope you have a great week.

Love, Sister Williams

"Learn it, live it, love it"

Classic black and white 

car picture. 

What Missouri looks like. 

Doniphan - Take 2

The old Doniphan crew.

Alright well transfers calls did come and Sister Farnsworth did indeed get transferred. So my new companion is Sister Day, and she's from *drum roll please* Utah!! Which means every single one of my companions is from back home so... We can get together after the mission (blessings).

Sister Day!

So the night before transfers we all dress up in early pioneer clothes and get to go inside the jail, well since we were very slow that night me and Sister Farnsworth decided to get dressed a little bit early...than just our luck, right before closing time a man walked in and asked for a tour. Haha well um so we gave him a tour looking mighty authentic.

Transfer eve

This week we had the awesome opportunity to watch a worldwide mission
broadcast, it was so good! It's always good to have a little rejuvenating fire, it help us have a really great start to this transfer. I'm so excited to see the miracles that our Heavenly Father allows us to be a part of this transfer.

I wish I could explain how much I love serving in the Liberty Jail, this past week every tour that we have taken has had at least one non-member on it, and it's amazing how strong the spirit is when we go through the rotunda, it's so strong that it seems you can touch it.

One of my favorite tours was actually one that we weren't really giving the tour. There's a boy who lives here in the area named Alma and he has come to the Liberty jail every Sunday for a long time, and he's an amazing missionary. He has helped many of his friends get baptized...so when he came I told him he could give the tour to his brother and three of their non-member (one about to be baptized) friends..And that I would help with anything that he didn't remember, and pretty much just let him take the lead. So throughout he had us
bare testimony and answer questions, and at the end every single one of them bore their testimony of what they had felt while they were here, and one girl told her story of how she decided to get baptized at the end of next month. I was crying, she was crying, Alma and his brother were crying. Long story short, the Holy Ghost is amazing and I can say with even more conviction that this church is true and Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.

Love you all SO much!

Sister Williams

White Roads and Near Death Experiences

Hello :)

So transfer calls come tonight, and we both know that Sister Farnsworth was going to leave, she's been here in this area twice on her mission...and although I know that the President is an inspired man, the assistants came by and dropped of a test so I can get my driving card. Haha and Um well if you know me...you know that me and cars do not get along very well, especially in the snow. So we will see how this next transfer plays out, and if my new companion and I make it out alive. J

Sister Williams & Sister Farnsworth 

Anyway just a short little update about what happened this past week. We had a lesson with Mike and he finally told us that he wasn't ready for baptism right now...which sounds bad, but it was good to here where he's actually at. Because for the last little while he's just been telling us that he will get baptized, and that he just doesn't know when. So we've kind of just been at a standstill. But now we know where he is at and where we need to go from here.

And as far as our area goes, it's still pretty slow. But we did service at a nature sanctuary on Saturday and Sister Farnsworth held a little fuzzy bunny while I held a snake. A member had us over to their house this week and had us do a "Man-cake" challenge, where you have to eat a pancake that is the size of the skillet. Let's just say I did not succeed in that endeavor.

Right now I've just been thinking a lot about how to gain spiritual strength, how to get to a point where you can and will do anything that your Father in Heaven asks of you. I've come to the conclusion that it is back to the basics. We need to start with constant direct communication with our Heavenly Father, and start from there.

Sorry this email is short.

I love you all, and hope you have an amazing week!

Sister Williams 

District Meeting - Liberty Jail 

Knockin Doors and Saving Souls

Hello!

This week was full of success and miracles! Last week I wrote about counting all of the no's we have gotten, well, we knocked on more than 45 doors and finally found some new investigators! Our diligence and faith is finally paying off :) One of our new investigators name is Nannette, she has the cutest little family. The night we found her started out as a rough one. We didn't have a car so we were walking, it was freezing. We knocked on about 15 doors with no luck so we
decided to walk to a less active members house but we got lost... We stopped and decided to pray. We told Heavenly Father that we were lost and to help us find someone how would be interested in the Gospel. After the amen Sister Farnsworth and I walked to a door and knocked.


This is how the conversation went:

US- "Hi! We are the local missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint, have you ever heard of that church?
NANNETTE- No...
US- "How about the Mormons"
NANNETTE - "Ohh... yeah, how can I help you?"
US- "As missionaries we share a message about Christ (insert child running to the door) and how through him we can be together with our families forever, is that something that you would be interested in learning more about?"
NANNETTE- "I would love to!"
US- Silence. We were so shocked that someone actually said yes! "Ohh, well we will be back in the area..."

We have a lesson with her later this week! We found 2 other investigators. They have both been taught before.

We have a new investigator on Mormon.org chat. He is from Pakistan. It was so cool! He came onto the Chat because his religious leader in Pakistan was criticizing the Mormons. He spent some time on Mormon.org and was interested in learning more! But he cool part is that he had a really hard time reading and writing in English so we used Google translate and talked to him in Urdu! Pictures will follow. We helped him download a Urdu Book of Mormon because he said that it was dangerous for him to have a paper copy.

We've taken some pretty awesome people through the Jail. One man was here on a business trip and had time to kill so he came to the Jail. I have never taken someone who was so excited to be on a tour. He had so many questions and was so engaged. At the end of the tour he thanked us 5 trillion times and asked if he could bring his kids back, it was fantastic.

I hope that you have a great week!

Love you!

Sister Williams

"The First Day of The Rest of The Year"

We haven't been able to find anyone else to teach yet, and we've started counting our no's every day, because if you focus on the no's that one yes means so much. Haha so in the last two days we've had 36 no's. It's due time for a few people to say yes, right? ;)

Good news! Mike (who’s been investigating for over a year.) is praying about a date for baptism! And our diligence is paying off, because it looks like we will be getting some referrals soon. We just really need to be teaching more.

This week I learned a lot about hope and how Hope and Faith are different. Faith is something that anyone can have....we have faith that when we flip a light switch that the light will turn on. But hope is so much more than that. We have faith in Jesus Christ and what he did...but we have hope that we will do enough to fully accept his sacrifice and use it in our lives. Hope is what the world tries to rip away from us. And when we lose hope, that's when our faith starts to waver. The only way that we can gain sufficient hope is if we have
our focus set on our Savior Jesus Christ.. Just like Peter when he was walking on water, the only way we stay above water is if we keep our sight on the Savior.

Sister Farnsworth is awesome. She has helped me in many aspects of my missionary work. All the members here love her! She is so selfless and
is always thinking of others. She uses hard trials in her past to help others feel understood and to teach with power. Haha oh and the subject of the email is our motto for the year.

Alright well although I LOVE the holidays, I'm excited for people to be a little less busy again. I hope you all have a great week.

Sister Williams