Mission Life #23 Druk, druk, druk,

Maandag 7 augustus 2017.

Hi everyone!
De tijd is zeer kort... we always sing that song for district meeting. Anyway. I don't have a lot of time. But I want to tell you my spiritual highlight of the week. 

Friday we had correlation meeting with the Branch mission leader and it took forever. It was really good though, because the district president (president Verwey, he has served his mission in the Netherlands a couple of years ago red.) was there to help us have a better and effective correlation meeting. After that we had a lesson planned, but we were late and I was hungry so ik had geen zin in de les. I wasn't looking forward to the lesson.

But we said a prayer ans asked that it would be a spiritual lesson. AND IT WAS. We talked about the Restoration. We gave him Alma 32 to read about faith. And the whole lesson was about faith and the Restoration. Faith is so important! It's the first step of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was amazing to see that following up on commitments makes the biggest difference. The Spirit was so strong that I almost cried. We asked him if he ever wondered why there are so many churches. And he said he has. So we were able to explain why. And the Spirit testified to me that this is why I'm here. To help people understands that the Restoration was needed, because the fulness of the gospel was not on the earth. The full truth was not on the earth after Jesus Christ. And people don't know that. And that's why I'm here. To help them understand that the FULL truth is on the earth. Wow it was amazing. Echt mooi. 

We fasted yesterday and we fasted for an investigator L.   also for the members and other investigators,. That they will have the desire to come to church. And we had 4 investigators in church and there were just a lot of people in church ' the Spirit of God like a fire was burning'. It was amazing. God really listens to our prayers and He answers our prayers. In Dutch you would say Hij hoort en verhoort onze gebeden. He really does. So I know that God hears me. Also my little prayers I say in my heart. 

A other experience was with L.. We were at her place we were waiting for her , because she was almost home. So she came home and we wanted to enter the house. But the door wouldn't open. We tried and tried, but it didn't work. We decided to pray. And still it didn't work for five minutes, But after that we were able to open the door at the perfect time. Because her son, started crying and everything. God really answers our prayers at the right time. After we pray, we should work. We shouldn't stop working. We could see that we kept trying, and because of that God was able to give us an idea how to open the door. If we stopped trying, we wouldn't have gotten that idea. God is groot. I know He is. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. amen.

Mi lobi yu!!

Lobi,

Zuster Spijkerman
Ps Send me pictures of your life! 

 

 

Mission Life #22 God is goed, God is groot!!!!

Maandag 31 Juli 2017

Hallo!

This week was amazing. I just want to let everyone know how awesome a mission is! Oh and i love you all, just so you know. I don't have enough time to write everyone, sorry! 

Sooo this week. (okay I have 10 minutes...) uh uh uh I will share the spiritual highlights. 

Wednesday we contacted a lot. Like 4 or 5 hours or something. AND IT IS HOT! So I was getting really tired and I didn't want to do this anymore, because it was hot and literally nobody had really listened to us. So we had 30 minutes left and I begged God to give me strength and to let us reach our goal of two new investigators. But God gave us 6 new investigators! Yes 6 in 30 minutes! And on Thursday we went back to 2 of them (2 sisters) and they are amazing! This one Young girl (17) said that she knew that she needed to change and she told her mom that we were like a sign that she needed to change. It rained a lot so we were kind of stuck at her place, but it wasn't awkward at all. It was fun, although we couldn't hear each other because the rain was so loud. But it was really amazing! 

Saturday we had an appointment with a less active. We were there and he was sleeping. So we decided to just sit down in front of his house. We called people and invite them for church. Then he stood there for like a minute just watching us. Haha really funny. It took a long time (like 40 minutes, with the waiting) but we finally sat with him and the lesson went really well. Zuster Barker and I want to become better teachers by making the lessons spiritual. So we've been praying for that a lot. And this lesson went sooooo well! We were able to be bold, but not overbearing, understanding and loving.

 

God gave us the ability to ask inspired questions so he could give inspired answers. So we asked him what he wanted to achieve, what his goal was. He said 'if you could motivate me to go to church that would be great'. So he wants to go to church! WE just have to help him. We text him every day now, so hopefully that helps.

Sunday, wow. It was hard. Church was pretty boring to be honest. People just read talks and I can't really focus when people just read something.

 

BUT I need to change something. But actually it was an answer to my prayer. That morning I asked heavenly Father what more I could do. Just like the story in the Bible, where the rijke jongeling asks God what more he can do. God tells him to keep the commandments. Then he replies that he already does that. And I feel like I do too... I know I don't want to be prideful. But I asked God what more can I do? Not because I'm prideful, but because I want to be humble and admit that I have to change something, but I just don't know what it is. But now I know! I have to make church fun! Don't know how yet, but I will know because I can ask God. 

So this day was hard. So I asked God for our last appointment that it would be good and spiritual. It was amazing! This guy that we teach, he talks a lot and he doesnt articulate very well. We noticed that during contacting. So I was a little bit scared that he would talk for like an hour and we would not be able to say anything. But the lesson was so spiritual. God helped me understanding him, listening to him and asking questions. We were able to ask questions and keep the lesson organized (if that makes sense).

 

He has a lot of questions and we know we have the answer. This gospel is his answer. So we gave him a book of Mormon and we asked him if he wanted to say the closing prayer, He said he was a little bit emotional, because our conversation really touched him. God gave us power and strength to have a short, spiritual lesson with this man who talks a lot. He is so prepared! I'm glad God led us to him. I was really able to see him through God's eyes. 

I know God gave me a little bit of a hard time the rest of the day, so I would appreciate the lesson with him more. Its amazing how God works. GOD IS GOOD. GOD IS GROOT. 

Okay I don't have time! I know hard work is the best. It heals you it helps you. I love it! 

Mi lobi yu!

Zuster Spijkerman

ps we forgot to take of our safety vests