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.

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