2 Nephi 9:7 09/09/13

Dear Family-
It has been a really good week. We had a miracle Thursday night with our investigator, Dilma. We have been trying to get in and teach, but we usually end up doing service for her. So Thursday we were finally able to teach her the Restoration. She loved it. We taught and testified of the First Vision and Joseph Smith, and then invited her to pray to know that it is true. And she said that she already knows it's true! We were able to set a date with her for the beginning of October. I feel so blessed to find these prepared people.

We are working hard to bind the missionary work with the family history/temple work. We are teaching all of our recent converts how to do family history and they are loving it! In a couple weeks were are taking several recent convert families to the temple to do baptisms for the dead- for their own ancestors ; ) And then we are having more people come to the genealogy class. One brother brought all the information for four generations- names, dates, children, siblings. Everything. We were able to prepare over thirty names last week and we will finish just entering the rest of the names of those he has before we will start searching. The work is so beautifully intertwined.

Remember last week how I told about the less-active sister we visited who came to church last Sunday? Well, while talking with several sisters at church, they found she didn't have transportation so they gave her a car! She and her husband were touched by this charity, and her husband who is not a member came to church and our English class. Not only that, but they brought five of their friends to our English class! The power of charity and of one person. Her husband is now meeting with the missionaries, as well as two of her friends. We are having dinner with her tomorrow and she told us she is inviting three more friends she wants us to meet. Incredible.

I had the opportunity again this week to teach our Gospel Principles class since our ward mission leader is out of town. It was on the Atonement. Last week was on the life of Christ so we discussed the Atonement and read several scriptures. I didn't want to repeat this week so I found all these examples, illustrations, stories to share to discuss various aspects of the Atonement. Such as the hill and the well, the man falling into a hole, the story of the debtor, etc. It was a good experience. Part of the fun of a mission- being called on with only hours or minutes to give lessons or talks is just normal. I really loved this talk called The Miracle of the Atonement.
Please pray for Lionel, Elvin, and Dilma as well as the Gomez and Cuellar families.
Love you all,
Hermana Koerner