Querida Familia y amigos,
What a great week! We had our first lesson with the English investigator who wanted to be taught by sisters. She is a very special person and she has been prepared over many years to accept the restored gospel. Growing up her best friend was a Latter-day Saint. She went to primary and young women a few times a long with some church dances. She has always believed in Jesus Christ and had a strong faith in Him. In college she took a class on world religions that caused her to think about her beliefs. She said it was then that she realized that she didn't know if she really believed in Jesus Christ or if it was just all that she had been taught so she prayed to know if Jesus was the Son of God. She describes that she felt an overwhelming and powerful feeling of peace wash over her and in that moment she knew that it was true. Then ten years later she ended up marrying a very less-active member of the Church; however, his sisters are very active members. Just a few months ago in the car home from visiting them in Idaho she said that she prayed to ask God if this message was true and if it was what she should do in her life and that there in the car she received an answer to that silent prayer in the exact same way she had now more than fifteen years ago. She is very prepared. We left her three chapters to read in the Book of Mormon as homework and she complained that it was not enough so we gave her the pamphlet and the testimonies at the beginning. The next day she called us and asked us to come over to meet one of her friends. When we got there she said she had already read "everything" that we had left her and wanted us to quiz her on it while her friend was there. Then she said nevermind she would just tell us everything that she learned. She recounted us one of the most beautiful and well-understood versions of the restoration that I had ever heard. It really is a privilege to teach her.
This week we were looking for a referral and knocked on the wrong door. At first I started speaking with the lady at the door in Spanish but then realized that she didn't speak Spanish and told her in English that we were just looking for a Spanish-Speaking family. She said, "No Español!" with an American accent and slammed the door in our face. Hermana Probst and I had to hold in our laughter until we got outside. For some reason quite a few people hear me speaking in Spanish and then when I start speaking in English to them I think in their minds they feel like I am speaking Spanish so they say they can't understand me. It was funny.
A man of a non-Christian religion this week stopped us and started using logic to try to convince us basically that we were wrong to believe in Jesus Christ. The only problem is that he did not account for the fact that he was talking to two Latter-day Saint missionaries. His points may have been powerful against some doctrines but they sounded so hollow against the beautiful restored doctrines of Jesus Christ.
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
