A Few Rocks Should Do the Trick

Dear everyone.

Well, this week was awesome!!!

We had a miricle happen the other day. We were walking in this little town, with only on a dirty muddy road, It was raining that day too. So, we clapped at this house, and then the next, and the next without success, and this went on for while. So we decided to stop. Ferreira picked up rocks, and asked which one he chose. I picked this one, and that, but I didnt choose the one he chose. Then he said, îts easier if you ask me^then said that we need to make a prayer to find him that god has chosen here, and who is ready. So, we did, I said the prayer. After the prayer, he asked which was we should go, left, to the other town next door, or right to return to Serrano where our investogators, and teach one of them. So, I had the feeling that we should go right, and return to our investigators. But on our way, we passed this one house, and Elder Ferreira stopped and was like ^Go make contact with that family^since he saw these people sitting on the porch of this house, and he felt impressed to have me go make contact with them. So, we decided to go, and I clapped hands, and it was an amazing experience. There were nine of them, this big family, and they were so very exited to see us, they talked, I talked a lot, and it was pretty awesome. It was like they were waiting for us to stop by because they were like, ^sure, come in, teach us a quick short message^!! A miricle definately happened here. and the grandpa of the family stopped us and was like, how am I going to know you church is true when there are so many others out there saying different things. and we were like, Îm so glad you asked that, and expressed that, can we come back another day and talk to you guys more (since it was getting late, almost 9Ç00, and we needed to return), and of course they said we good, we set a date to come back, then left to go home. But that was awesome.

What I learned from this is that you will only know whose ready to accept the gospel of you ask God, because only he knows where they truly are. I~ve learned that we are virtually incapable of doing anything without God. He~s given us our bodies, our spirits, our families, our time on earth, and most importantly, a way for us to return back to him through Christ~s amazing sacrifice. Remember Christ this christmas. Its not about santa, or Recieving toys and candy. Its about Christ, who was born to live a perfect life, suffer and die for us so that we may recieve the chance to live with our families forever and with the one who created us and loves us more than we will ever comprehend in this life, God, who is our Spiritual father.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Elder Shurts