Teaching Miracles on Temple Square!

This has been a great week, especially for teaching our investigators. Remember Mike who I told you about last week? Well we've taught him twice now and he is amazing. Before he left Salt Lake he bought himself a Book of Mormon and he has been reading it. The first time we taught him we got to know what his expectations are and we explained our purpose as missionaries to help him come closer to God and Jesus Christ and that is exactly what he is looking for. We taught about who God is and what his relationship is with God. We read Alma 30:44 because I was thinking about how he has been out in the national parks and enjoying the beauty of this earth:

"But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."

After we read this verse he told us that it answered one of his concerns. If there is a God, then why aren't their more signs of Him? Well, there are just signs all around us! It helped me realize that the Book of Mormon really does answer the concerns of the soul. We taught him how to pray and invited him to offer a prayer every day and he said that he would love to do that.

Last night we called Michael again and he kept his commitment to pray everyday. Sister Bat-ulzii and I shared with him a brief version of the first lesson: The Restoration and what we shared with him made sense, so that was good. He says that as he has been reading the Book of Mormon he really has been feeling closer to God...that promise that Joseph Smith extended that is in the Introduction of the Book of Mormon is true:

"Concerning this record the Prophet Joseph Smith said: “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”

The past few days he had an earache and he told us that while he was talking with us on the phone his ear stopped hurting for the first time. He saw the miracle in it! Heavenly Father truly is touching his life! He said that he would be baptized too, he just wants to be more prepared for it, which is exactly what we are going to help him do!

We also taught Zach for the first time. Sister Bat-ulzii called Zach over the phone because his friend referred him. Zach is really interested to meet with the missionaries. We taught him about God and prayer and he basically already knew and agreed with everything that we taught him. We invited him to be baptized and he told us that he wants to be more prepared, but yes! So we are going to do our best to prepare him on his journey. We're going to be calling him next Sunday and hopefully sharing something new for him.

The best news of the week, though is this. We got a text from Lizbeth on Sunday evening:

"I would like to invite you both to my baptism this coming Saturday at 7:30pm. I will be happy to see you again! Thank you for your prayers!!!"

She is getting BAPTIZED on JULY 7th!!! This is a huge miracle! Two baptisms in ONE transfer! We called Lizbeth last night and she was so sad that we couldn't go (she lives in Las Vegas) and we were sad too. We told her that we would send a picture, though. She told us that her entire family goes to church with her: her daughter, husband, mother, brother, and sister. I was so happy to hear that this has become a family affair for them. I guess I'll just have to go to their sealing someday .

Amy is still excited for her baptism. She just got back from a handcart trek with her ward and she said that she had a great time. We're super excited to go to her baptism.

What incredible miracles!!!