hey everyone!
this week was such a legit week!!!! we have been working with a new famliy the huang family they came to church and they set a baptismal date too! its for the 30th of this month 😆 they are so legit!! we have seen some really great miracles this week and i have never been more excited for so many people before! we literally have just been blessed! we have also found a new investigator that is 18 years old and looking for his purpose in life! he has definitely been prepared by the lord and has also set a date for the 30th of this month! super stoked!!
funny story really quick! so we had a lesson with this 13 year old investigator, who also has a date for the 15th of next month. We were reading lehi’s dream with her and just talking about the translation of it and the representation of the iron rod, tree of life, etc. then when we were talking about the rod she asked "well can you just hold onto it for a while then let go and just grab onto it again and still make it to the tree" i told her "no we must continually hold onto the rod in order to get to the tree and stay by the tree and receive all those blessings" super simple right? but then (something you need to understand about her really quick is that for all the lessons up until now she hasn’t said much of anything to anything we say haha! she’s a pretty quiet girl until you get to know her and she only started to open up now 🙂 ) but then after my response she said "but there is no way! if you do that for your whole life your hand will get tired!!" hahahaha now when she said that we all just started busting up laughing! i guess it just sounds funnier in chinese… 🙂 but it was super funny!
I do want to say one thing, she is right it is tiring and we will get extremely tired at times. If you have read that story before it talks about those that held tight all the way there then when they finally made it to the tree they collapsed and were obviously exhausted from the effort and the long walk they had to make. They were tired, but just as everyone can when they made that journey they were able to partake of the fruit and recieve the blessings from it. i just want to bear testimony that these blessing are real! we are able to see and be part of these amazing blessings! but something that is also very important to remember is that we must hold strong to that rod in order to recieve these and then when we make it to that tree we must stay by the tree!!! there is no reason to leave the tree for the fake pleasures of the world, its just not the same and cannot be replaced.
Love you all! have an amazing week!
Elder Miner
PS. im super jealous that you all get to listen to General Conference a week early… but i still love you 🙂