I'm happy to announce now that after 16 months as a missionary, I am finally teaching A FAMILY! Christine (the girl who got baptised last week) has 5 kids age 7 to 19. The kids speak pretty good English. We've been seeing them multiple times a week teaching Christine her recent convert lessons. Amina (age 9) is getting baptised on the 9th of of February. The other ones, we are still working on and we are also teaching their cousins. Christine can't read or write in English or swahili so we use Google translate on the phone but the person sounds kinda robotic so I listen to the translator and then repeat it to Christine in swahili and she understands! The gift of tongues is REAL.
On Friday, we had a miracle! We went to call by this person the sisters met a few months ago. Turns out he had moved and the person living there wasn't interested so we were like "K now what?". Well I got this super strong feeling that we needed to stay and Tract on this street we were on. This never happens because I do not like tracting. But we followed the prompting and we met this man named Carl! He's our age and from the Philippines originally. He was super nice and we chatted a while and gave him a card and went on our way. About 15 minutes later, he called us asking if we could meet up with him the next day! Unfortunately... He stood us up! But we are still in contact with him and we are planning on seeing him this week.
Well for the spiritual thought this week, I thought I'd share
1 Nephi 13:37 "And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be."
I know that as we try to bring forth Zion and to do good to others, we will indeed have the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. Even though life is hard and gets harder every day, we are promised that in the last day, we will be lifted up. I'm so grateful for the gospel and that I've been able to see so many people change because of it.
Love you all! Have a good week!
Sister Gilland
England Manchester Mission
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