Kelsey has a Testimony!

Hi!

Last week we went to Kelsey's house and we decided to teach her the importance of Book of Mormon and going to church because we feel like the fire in her is dying because we hadn't taught her for almost two weeks because she had the swine flu. I was all pumped up, with the spirit of course, and I was feeling really bold. We asked her if she had been reading the Book of Mormon and she said that she hadn't had the time. We told her that we understood that it's hard to take time out of our busy schedules to read. Then I started to bear testimony of how important the Book of Mormon was. The Book of Mormon was written for our day and it contained all those precious truths that were lost during all those translations of the Bible. I then told her what exactly we do as missionaries. I said that we can't see our families, call them and we only get one hour to email them everyweek. We teach, preach and work all day long, seven days a week. I then told her that we do this because we know that the Book of Mormon is true. We know that this is Christ's church. We are out here to bring those blessings from the gospel to others because we want them to experience those blessings as well. I then told her that we are there teaching her because we love her. Man, I surprised myself by how bold and honest I was with her. I told her that I missed my family so much (I started to cry too) but I knew that I was doing an important thing. I started right into her eyes as I bore my testimony to her. I said that she should try to find at least five minutes a day to try and read it. I then went into the importance of the sacrament and I told her flat out, that she couldn't get baptized if she didn't come to church. The policy is that the investigator has to come to church at least twice before getting baptized. She seemed to grasp the importance of it and she her attitude towards us seemed to change. She was nice to us before but she started to act even nicer to us.

We taught her a few days later and she had been reading the book of Mormon. Yeah! We watched the Joseph Smith movie with her. I was praying the whole time that she would feel the spirit. We wanted to strengthen her faith in Joseph Smith and the restored gospel before teaching her the word of wisdom. Afterwards, we asked her what it meant to her to know that Christ's church is on the earth. She said that it is mindblowing to think about and she said that it will always feel like that. But she said that it is comforting to know that there is a prophet on the earth. She has a testimony! We were so excited because we know that she knows that this is Christ's church.
I thought that as a missionary that we would be able to see her testimony. But in reality we have to ask her what she believes for us to know. But she seems to be changing. The spirit in her home is different. Her spirit is different. She seems to be really changing. It's amazing!


My testimony in the Book of Mormon is growing so fast. I'm starting to realize that any concern or question that we have can be found in the Book of Mormon. My love for it has become so strong and I just love reading it. I know that God loves his children and wants them to be happy so He gave us the Book of Mormon which contains all the way that we can return to Him. It contains the fullness of the gospel and the way to reach true happiness.

Remember the church is true so keep the faith!

Love Sister Sumsion