Well hello everyone. Thanks for your birthday wishes! I sure appreciated them! But we had a great week this week. Had a great miracle that started tuesday. We went to the mall last pday because we have this huge mall here. We were eating lunch and some guy asks if he can sit with us. Well we talk with him and he said he just felt like he should come over here and sit with us, which was great. He is a cool dude and loves Christ so we invited him to meet with us and he said yeah. So we text him and met him Friday and picked him up as a new investigator. It was awesome! Had a great lesson and he had tons of questions about the church. He had a friend that served an LDS Mission and he spoke highly of this friend. It was cool to see. He doesn't live in our area so we are going to pass him off this next week. But it was a cool experience. Then thursday we had interviews with President Miles. It was really good, and to be honest, it was the most normal interview ever. I don't think President Miles wants to go because it was just super regular. Haha it was so funny, not quite what I expected but it was good to hear from President. They also sang happy birthday for me, which was super funny.
Then we had the prophet visit on Saturday so we got to help set up the chairs for the event. Our stake center was packed with over 1400 chairs. It was such an amazing experience! The doors opened to seat people at 4:30 and he spoke at 6:00 but people were lined up before 3:00. Now we would have loved to be front row but that was simply not possible. We had work we needed to get done that day, we got there early and the place was already pretty full so we were back in the gym. But had pretty decent seats. I wasn't able to shake his hand, to be honest hardly anyone could. They were on a time crunch and they showed up, spoke and left very quickly, so no time for any greeting or anything. It was such an incredible session though. We heard first from sister Rasband, who talked about following the Prophet. It was cool to hear that from someone so close to him. She also talked about obedience. Then Elder Rasband spoke about similar, following the Prophet and how he is a special witness of Christ. It was a really awesome talk, so powerful as he testified of Christ. Then Sister Nelson spoke, she had such an interesting talk. She talked about the broadcast last week and what she said is how much opposition they felt that week before they were going to speak because Satan did not want them to share what they had planned. She compared it to Joseph Smith before he had the first vision. It was fascinating as they talked about how there were so many temptations. Then she talked about how often and how much revelation the Prophet receives since he got his calling. She said she has felt the hastening of the work simply through how often she is prompted to leave their room in the night. It was such a great talk. Then President Nelson spoke, he shared about the Book of Mormon. Very similar to his talk at conference except he seemed much more relaxed and was so funny to listen to. It was a great talk. He shared some of his experiences with sharing the Book of Mormon and then he talked about what the Book of Mormon confirms, refutes, and basically just testified that it will fix your problems if you read and apply its message. It was awesome, we had 2 of our investigators there and they loved it! They truly felt that he was the Prophet. And one felt the need to read the Book of Mormon. It was awesome. But I just wanted to say I absolutely know President Nelson is a prophet, we were encouraged to go with a question and I definitely received an answer to my question. I know that he is the prophet of God. During the solemn assembly I felt the spirit confirm that, and I definitely felt the spirit again as we were able to hear from him. I love this work and am so blessed for this opportunity to hear from the prophet again!
