Sister Shelby Williams: “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"