Happy Easter!!!
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter! It was so good to talk with everyone especially on Easter and to testify of Jesus Christ......that He lives!
Thursday we had the opportunity to watch this movie called "Meet the Mormons" for Relief Society. It is a movie that EVENTUALLY will be playing at Temple Square in the Joseph Smith Building. Anyway, the movie is geared towards non-members, to help them understand the basic beliefs and to get an idea about a variety of Mormon families around the entire world. They took 6 different stories that are INCREDIBLE and so touching. It is amazing; I want to watch it every day and I’m so anxious for it to come out. I think it will be such a great tool to help people become interested in learning more.
And Saturday was the best! We taught Bobby (Ben's friend) with our RM Sam on the phone as well. We had an awesome lesson and it was so good to have Sam there to help and to make sure we understood everything Bobby was saying. Sometimes LIberian English is hard to understand. :) Anyway, we invited him to be baptized and he said YES!!!!!! Then Sister Ye and I had the TC desk for 2 hours and there was hardly anyone there. We were getting super antsy.......then in the corner of my eye I saw MarLeice!! I was sooo happy to see her! Then, time could have stopped; it was soooo slow until it reached 5:00, but it finally came! I was at the Visitor's Center and heard my name and turned around and saw my ENTIRE family including babies :) I was so happy to see everyone, especially the little ones that I have been dying to see! Pictures are great, but it does not do them justice....they are the cutest niece and nephew!!
The Easter weekend was crazy. Maybe some of you are aware that the church produced a movie, “Because of Him”, and “He is Risen”. Well, because of the movies and the links to mormon.org <http://mormon.org> , chats were coming in left & right 24/7! We were even given scheduled times to ONLY take chats, (which we have never had before). It was awesome though, because we received soo many new investigators. Some who are very sincere and very interested in learning more.
We talked to Bobby again on Monday and he went to church and got a Book of Mormon and is enjoying it a lot! What more could I ask for?? We then called Ben to have a lesson with him and see how he is doing. He is recieving the Priesthood this Sunday! WAHOO!!! We still had Sam with us on the phone and as we talked and I said, ”Hey Ben, I am just going to teach all the Liberians ok?” And he said, "Well I have a friend named Darlink that I want you to teach and to help!" So he sent me his number and told me him to be expecting my call. I was at the Humanitarian Center and it was our lunch time so after lunch I called Darlink.......WOW! Talk about a miracle. He told me he already looked up where the church was located and that he was going to go this Sunday! I then asked," Are you familiar with the church at all, and would you be interested in learning more?" This was his reply, "I have been SOOO interested for the longest time, but I had NO idea where to go or who to talk to about it until you came along." UMMMM, OK, yes I can work with that! So I made a reference to baptism with him during our first conversation, and he was so excited!! He lives close to Boston and he is amazing. He is very prepared and so so interested........I have now decided I ONLY want to teach people if they are from Liberia! :) Just kidding, but they are the nicest people and so willing to listen.
Anyway, I think that is all. This week has been wonderful! We Have a lot of new investigators that I am excited to teach this upcoming week. I hope that everyone is doing well & I love all of you! I can not believe how fast time is going. I love this work. I love being a missionary and this has changed my life completely. All I wanna do is do missionary work and love and teach everyone around me!
The church is true!
Sister Mindy Marsh
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