For a long time now, we have not been able to contact our one investigator, B. He hasn't been coming to church and every time we call, he is either too busy to meet or doesn't answer. But we finally had the opportunity to go by his house last Tuesday (we have always met him either at Subway or at a park up until this point) and see if he was there. And he was! We were finally able to just talk to him about how busy his life has been etc, etc. Then we set up a time to meet! Finally! Hope was on the horizon!
Later that night we had dinner with the Branch president and his wife who does not speak English (they're from Brazil) and we had a WONDERFUL meal of soup and rolls! It was so incredible because even though there was a language barrier with his wife, we could still see the light in her eyes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we could still feel the Spirit when she bore her testimony in Portuguese! The Gospel is true no matter what language it is spoken in! It reminds me of the Standard of Truth which is recited by us as missionaries quite often,
"The Standard of Truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing. Persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble and columny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say, 'The work is done'."
It is so amazing to think about that wonderful promise that the work will go forward no matter what, but that I am aiding in that great effort to spread the truth of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of West Texas and East New Mexico!
I have some exciting news! Sister Brown got her boot off of her not-so-broken-anymore foot on Wednesday! She has switched to a brace for the next little while! It's healing! We're pretty excited :)
Institute started back up on Thursday - we were very happy to be back with our amazing Institute teacher and the rest of the students who attend institute :) This next little while, we will be studying about the four Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament. I am so excited! We'll be learning all about Jesus Christ and His ministry! It's going to be AWESOME!
Yesterday was such an amazing day. Sister Brown and I have some pretty awesome talks about Jesus Christ and Enduring to the End and then church was amazing and then we had an appointment with a former investigator, T, which we were REALLY excited about. Well, we went to the address she gave us and it turned out to be an entire apartment complex with SEVERAL buildings in it and she didn't give us an apartment number. . . So, we pulled into the complex and the first thing that came to our minds was the talk that President Uchtdorf gave in the Women's session of this last conference, Fourth Floor, Last Door (by the way, if you haven't read/listened to it - DO IT IT'S SO GOOD!) In the talk, he talks about two missionaries who go to proselyte at an apartment complex and they knock on every door and their efforts seemed fruitless until the last door on the fourth floor when they were finally invited inside and they eventually baptized the mother and daughter who lived there - the daughter happened to be President Uchtdorf's wife, Harriet :) So, Sister Brown and I were prepared to go into super missionary mode for a bit, when we received a prompting to walk in a certain direction for a time and after knocking on a few apartments that didn't answer, we found a young man and his girlfriend outside one of the buildings, talking. We decided to approach them and it ended up being a miracle find! He was so interested and we gave him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and set up an appointment to teach him this week! We're so excited and the Spirit was so strong when we were there outside talking to him!
Anyway, folks, I know this amazing, wonderful church is so true! I know my Savior Jesus Christ stands at the head of it and that because of Him, I have a chance to live with my Father in Heaven again, and also because of Him, I have the chance to tell the people here about that fact! I love being a missionary more than anything in the world!
I hope y'all have an amazing week and I love y'all so much!
Love,
Sister Overson
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