Happy Mothers Day!!!
Hey everyone!
Last week was a lot of crazy fun, and it is starting to look like this week will be similar!
We were able to find five new investigators last week, 2 or 3 of them actually contacted us and asked if we could come teach them. I wish missionary work was always that way.
One of my favorite parts of the last week was when I was on exchanges with Elder Smith. We were in his area and he had planned to go and visit a recent convert that is also less active. She is a single mother, paralyzed from the waist down, and has three young daughters. They are all filled with energy. When we showed up, there wasn't a man home so we couldn't go inside. We decided to sit on the back porch to teach her and her family. As we walked around to the back of the house we saw that the younger two daughters had made a huge mess and everything looked like a storm had blown through. We could tell that their Mom felt frustrated and under appreciated. The kids had no attention span and just wanted to play games and do everything except listen. Their Mom kept telling them to be quiet, sit down, listen, behave, stop fighting, etc. While all this was going on I felt a feeling of peace fill me up. The oldest daughter asked if we could read a story out of the children's "New Testament Stories" book. We read the story and then taught about how important families are and how much their Mom loves them. After our simple lesson, the spirit came in, their Mom was able to relax, the misbehaving stopped, and all of us started to laugh and have a good time.
It has been emphasized and re-emphasized over the last week that families are forever. The crown blessing of living this gospel and enduring to the end, is to live in a state of never ending happiness with our Father in Heaven and our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. The crown jewel of that magnificent crown is the blessing of our families being sealed together.
I hope y'all were able to show your mothers how much you love them yesterday, and I hope that y'all will find time to show everyone else in your family your love for them as well.
Love y'all,
Elder Harper
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