Monday, May 2, 2016

Service Softens Hearts



5.2.16
Hey there!

I hope you all are doing well! We had a good week this week and are hopeful for a few of the people that we are teaching. Sadly, we did not have anyone come to church but hopefully for Mother's Day we can get a few people to church!

One of the coolest experiences we had from last week actually happened yesterday. We went to go and visit our friend who we tracted into and she is kind of interested but always tells us that we need to go back and see her. Anyways her neighbor was out and she was walking to her house and we asked if there was anything that we could do for her and she said no. Little info about her, we knocked into her a little while ago and she told us that she was atheist. I do think that she remembered us and you will find out as the story goes on. So we went to talk to our friend but she was super sick and told us to come back when she was feeling better. We were walking away and the neighbor said, "maybe you can help me with something.' Well we jumped on that. She asked us if we could lift her garage open. So we tried and then it wasn't working so we tried and it barely budged and then we asked her why she wanted us to do that... She was locked out. So we went to the back door and luckily the screen door was unlocked. Also this lady had keys but she had put the sliding lock on and went out her garage door. So then we tried to open the back door and it had the sliding lock chain on it too but my companion had a brilliant idea to screw the thing out of the wall and so we ran over to her neighbor’s house and she gave us a screw driver and then we got this lady into her house and we did not have to break anything to do so. So then we invited her to learn more about the gospel but did it in a way to figure out what she does for a religious life. She said she was Methodist.... what? that is not atheist. Anyways she said that all her neighbors were trying to get her back to church and so we asked if we could come by and teach her and she told us to give her a card and that she would check it all out, and said we could come back. It was really cool to see how service really can soften people's hearts!

We have been working with this 19 year old less-active and she has come to church a few times and she is really wanting to change her life and surround herself with good people. She is still a little iffy about the church and it being true because she is so hung up on the fact that gay people cannot be baptized but she is starting to see the difference that church makes in her life when she comes! It really is the coolest thing to see lives changed though the gospel because it really can change your life and only for the better if you are living it!:)  Even if it brings trials it really does bring joy in the end every time!!

I love this gospel and I Love My Savior Jesus Christ and the perfect example he was to me! I hope that you all are striving to find ways that your life can be blessed through living the gospel and understanding who Jesus Christ is to YOU? I invite you to find how you can have a personal relationship with Him! I love you all and hope all is well!

Love Sister Mauck

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