The Home Stretch

Continuous Flow Of  Miracles 

Hello EVERYONE! 

These weeks are flying by and I am FREAKING OUT! Actually, I am currently in heavy denial of the fact that I am going home soon. Nothing has hit me hard enough yet to make me feel like I am going home soon! Luckily there is still plenty of time left! 

A thought shared to us by a member in our Stake Presidency "Christ performed the majority of his work in the last part of his life. If he had given up on the home stretch we would not have most of his important teachings. More importantly, we wouldn't have the Atonement which changes all of us. Like Jesus Christ, God can use you to do his most mighty miracles in this last part of your mission". 

That has fired me to keep working to the end. Even though missionary work never ends ;). We have seen so soo sooo many miracles as of a recent I can't even begin to cover all of them. I am so grateful to have such amazing companions who love doing the work by my side! 

One major miracle I would like to focus on this week was MAGGIE'S BAPTISM! Maggie was baptized this Sunday and it was such a special event. Maggie has progressed extremely fast through the lessons and ate everything up! She had almost fully read the Book of Mormon by the date of her Baptism and was proclaiming its truthfulness to all. The Spirit was so strong at her baptism and she bore such amazing testimony. She shared the following scripture to express the feelings of her baptism: Moroni 8:25-26

"And the first fruits of repentance is baptism; and baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments, and the fulfilling the commandments bringeth remission of sins;
and the remission of sins bringeth meekness, and lowliness of heart; and because of meekness and lowliness of heart cometh the visitation of the Holy Ghost, which Comforter filleth with hope and perfect love, which love endureth by diligence unto prayer, until the end shall come, when all the saints shall dwell with God."

She truly is an amazing miracle. I am so grateful to have played such a small part in her conversion process. 

Just know that the work is on fire right now and we are seeing so many mighty miracles. We are working with many people who are going to be baptized very soon! Elder Crowther and I hope to have 2 more baptisms before we head home! 

I love all of you, have a great week! 

Elder Nelson 孙长老

Maggies Baptism

Elder Wille's (my old comp) and his fam came to visit us.

Ben's Email to us (with added details😉)

First off I can not find my recorder anywhere.... I am SOOOOO sorry! However, you will see me in person in like 4 weeks so it will all work out in the end.

However, this week was full of many mannnny miracles! 

We taught some amazing lessons this week and I would like to focus on the highlights. Just to let you know we are staying really busy and the Lord has blessed us immensely as of recent and I could not be any more grateful! 

First highlight: Sunny

We were able to teach her again this week! WOWOOW she is on fire! She has been reading every day and praying she LOVES the Book of Mormon. We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she just ate it up! She was so in tune with the spirit it was tripping me out! We taught at one of our less actives homes and their kids are nuts!! Like they run around screaming and smashing their heads on anything they can find! So we are trying to teach her during all of that craziness however she stayed dead focused! We invited her to baptism and she took a date no problem! We plan for her baptism on Nov 18th ( Our last Sunday)! She came to church on Sunday and LOVED IT! They had the primary program and she was tearing up through the whole thing! We are so blessed to have the opportunity to teach her! 

Second: Pius

We were able to teach a good friend of mine named Pius again! I met with him about 6 months ago and he left for Taiwan forever. We had lost contact during the process and were really sad. We got in contact with him last week and were able to meet with him! He was amazing, he was so humble and ate everything up. He also took a baptismal date for Nov 18th and ran over to his calendar to write down the event! Another huge miracle. We pray that this time around we will be able to help him into the Waters of Baptism! 

This obvs was the icing on the cake this week. Maggie was found worthy for baptism and was baptized on Sunday at 7:30! It was such a spiritual baptism. She has been on fire through the whole teaching process. She had almost fully read the BOM and has always been a spiritual Giant! She bore her testimony at her baptism and it was so special she said the following:

"To describe how I feel about my baptism today I would like to quote a scripture from Moroni:
 "And the first fruits of repentance is baptism; and baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments; and the fulfilling the commandments bringeth remission of sins; and the remission of sins bringeth meekness and lowliness of heart; and because meekness and lowliness of heart cometh the visitation of the Holy Ghost, which Comforter filleth with hope and perfect love, which love endureth by diligence unto prayer, until the end shall come, when all the saints shall dwell with God."

It was so amazing to see how far she has come in so little time. We are grateful for the opportunity to help her back on her path to her Heavenly Father. God is Good and we hope to continue to help others come back home.

We are so busy right now and are working with so many amazing people! Too many to talk about. Just know we are seeing miracles daily and the Lord is always blessing us! Love you guys!

Elder Nelson 孙长老