Week 17- The one where prayer works!

Friends!!!

It's been a gooooood week!

We have had many many miracles and I thank my Heavenly Father for them all! We have been working hard and have had some awesome lessons.

Crystal has been doing great! We had an over the phone lesson with her and what's awesome is that even though she had a migraine she still wanted to talk and hear the lesson. We did the "Come Follow Me" lesson with her on 1 Nephi chapters 1-3 and we talked about ways Christ shows his love to us and the tender mercies of each day. We talked about the importance of going and doing the things that God has asked of us. It was amazing! We made a commitment to have her listen to the youth theme song and later the next day she said the song was amazing! She has been KEEPING HER COMMITMENTS!

Floranna also had an amazing lesson and it was particularly special for me! The lesson was on prayer and we asked her about her past experiences with praying. She said that she didn't have the best experience while growing up. We told her that prayer is a beautiful thing, it's a communication with our Father and he wants to hear from us. We read in Enos the whole time because he is an amazing example of prayer! It talked about how prayers are heard and it's all by faith. We asked if there was a time that God did answer her prayers and she said he did when her newborn was in a critical condition. We told her that was a testament of God hearing her and that she had faith to ask! We told her that when we have faith we will receive an answer. We talked about what a prayer is and how it is said and then asked if we could write a prayer that she would be comfortable saying. We wrote out a prayer with her and then sent it to her. We both bore testimony of prayer and shared experience where we knew God was listening to us. We then asked her to say the closing prayer and she read the prayer we sent her to help her get started. When she said it, it was so beautiful! We asked how we could helped her remember to say her prayers and I mentioned that we could text her at 8pm and she was so excited and thought it was a awesome! After it I just started crying because God was working through us to teach his daughter how to pray and talk to him. It was an amazing experience!!

News: TRACTING WORKS!!!

We have seen so many wonderful miracles from it! For example one night this week we were tracting a street and after knocking on doors where no one was answering we knocked on one last door and this lady answered and immediately let us in. After getting to know her she started telling us how her sister recently past away and then she told us some more stuff and then more and more. She couldn't stop. Because she has been bottling it up all this time it was nice for her to tell someone and she had to let it all out. I am so happy it was to us! After she was done telling us everything I asked if I could give her a hug! Her name is Alanna and she definitely needed a hug after all she has been through. We told her that she will be able to be with her sister again. She got emotional and said that we were sent by God because this was one of her hardest nights. We read our Hope scriptures and gave her a Book of Mormon. We read some of the intro with her and challenged her to read the rest of it herself. She loved everything we had to say. We said prayers with her and she said we can totally come back. She got our number and we invited her to church and she wants to come. Sweetest lady who is ready and needs to hear this message. :)

So like I said, so many miracles came this week and I am so grateful for Gods trust in us! My district has been really putting an emphasis on getting the Book of Mormon introduced in every contact. It's been a cool thing to do and see peoples reactions and a lot of them has been positive! I have also been reading conference talks with the topic on the Book of Mormon and man they are amazing! I would definitely recommend reading them. Ezra Taft Benson talks are so amazing and inspiring. We need to be flooding the earth with this wonderful message of the Book of Mormon!! One thing that I loved that he said was "My beloved brothers and sisters, we hardly fathom the power of the Book of Mormon, nor the divine role it must play, nor the extent to which it must be moved.

“Few men on earth,” said Elder Bruce R. McConkie, “either in or out of the Church, have caught the vision of what the Book of Mormon is all about. Few are they among men who know the part it has played and will yet play in preparing the way for the coming of Him of whom it is a new witness. … The Book of Mormon shall so affect men that the whole earth and all its peoples will have been influenced and governed by it. … There is no greater issue ever to confront mankind in modern times than this: Is the Book of Mormon the mind and will and voice of God to all men?” (Millennial Messiah pp. 159, 170, 179.)"

"Now, my good Saints, we have a great work to perform in a very short time. We must flood the earth with the Book of Mormon—and get out from under God’s condemnation for having treated it lightly"

(Talk: Flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon, by Ezra Taft Benson)

Please please pray for those experiences to share the book and also know for your self the power that the Book has for you and all of human kind! It is so important to listen to the promptings God has given us and act on them. It will be scary, it always is, but if I can do it you can too! Put a picture of Jesus Christ on your office desk or a background photo of Christ on your phone so when people can see it, it might spark a conversation! You never know!!

Sister Hair and I also watched the YSA fireside with Elder Christoferson, MAN IT WAS AMAZING! He talks about being committed to God and so many other things. Please please go watch if!!

How about this, since I am a missionary and I give out commitments all the time....and many don't keep them, you guys should be the ones who make me OH SO HAPPY and watch the video and email me something you like. You can do it right now or during the week but I want to hear what you liked and how you are going to use his counsel in your life!

We have to hold fast on to the iron rode! So WHOS WITH ME?!?! ;)

But please watch it, it's for everyone not just YSA!

Well that is pretty much it, have a wonderful week!

Love you all!

Sister Fillmore