Another Golden Contact!

Dear Family and Friends

This week has just flown! It was a good one though.  As normal we did an exchange this week. This week we switched with the sisters in Port Charlotte which is about 40 miles south of us. It was worth the miles though because we both learned so much from them. They are AMAZING missionaries. They helped us gain confidence. Since that exchange we have been talking to more people than ever before. We have see many miracles. 

 

We went to go see a referral yesterday named Maria. When we pulled up we recognized the house. It was the house of a man we had met just a week earlier! So we go in and we sit down in this humble Mexican home to find that Maria was prepared to find the gospel.

We taught her the first lesson and she accepted it completely. With excitement in her words she asked, " So Joseph Smith brought back the church?" and "So you want me to pray to know if what your saying is true?" We were taken back. She prayed and she asked to know if it was true and immediately after she said, "I know all of what you taught me is true." We asked her to be baptized and she asked if she could be baptized again because she was Catholic. We said, " Yes you can" and she smiled and said she would. It was a miracle.

A couple weeks ago our mission president presented to us a ward missionary menu. The menu includes several activities that members can choose from to do missionary work. Yesterday we showed it to our Branch President and not only did he fully support it but he encouraged everyone in our ward council to find at least 5 families for us to teach this year so that they could double the branch by next year. We love this branch. It's amazing.  

On Sunday we went to go see this awesome returning member, Rodolfo, who taught us more than we taught him :)  One thing he said that really stood out to me what that the reason why there was no light the three days after Christ's death was because there couldn't be light without the "Light of the World, Jesus Christ." I had never thought of it like that before. And if that is the case the we must assume that Christ is with us today because the light does not cease to shine.

Well that's all I've got time for. Have a stellar week!

Con Amor,

La Hermana Mathis

"Whenever you work toward a worthy goal, you exercise faith."
-True to the Faith

This video just came out. It's SO inspiring. You all should watch it.
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-07-006-the-hope-of-gods-light?lang=eng