(Elder Cummings)
Elder Ostler and I have been working very hard this week
finding, teaching, and rolling egg rolls.
This week was the ward's annual egg roll fundraiser for the young men
and young women and we made sure to go to support them. Hmong egg rolls are the best.
This last Sunday was the best Sunday yet for having members
at sacrament meeting. We've been
teaching several families lately and that has been blessing our work
tremendously. We have seen miracles this
week.
We started teaching an older woman, Houa Vang, this week who
lost her husband in mid-February. She
has no Christian background, and is living in Kingsburg for a few more weeks
before she goes back home to Seattle.
When we sat down with her Elder Ostler and I both experienced an
outpouring of the gift of tongues as we taught together the most powerful
lesson in Hmong on my mission to date.
We taught and testified of the nature of God and of Houa's own divine
nature and taught her how to pray. She
started out unwilling to pray, but as we followed the impressions we were
receiving we were able to help her to understand how the gospel and a
relationship with God will bless her life.
Before we left she said one of the most humble prayers in Hmong I have
heard, a prayer full of faith. Elder
Ostler and I are both so happy to be helping her come to know Heavenly Father
and Jesus Christ better in the few more weeks she will be in town.
Debbie is doing great too.
She admitted to having tried to avoid us lately, but that she couldn't
deny that our random visits continued to answer her prayers. We stopped by Sunday before church to
re-invite her to come, and all of her children were begging to go. So she did and loved the Spirit that was
there.
The ward has been putting a big focus on less actives this
year, so Elder Ostler and I have made visiting less active members a bigger
priority. We tried by Robert, someone
who I worked with a few months ago when I was on west side, and he said that he
was ready to come back. A huge
change! A miracle in his life and in
ours! It made me so happy when I saw him
in the back of the gospel principles class.
I love being a missionary!
With love,
Elder Cummings
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