August 15, 2016
This week has truly been a great one! First off,
Beverly Tingling received an answer that the Book of Mormon is true!! We asked
how she knew and she said that she was able to feel the power of the Holy Ghost
as she read and prayed about it!! It was so great to hear her say those words
because a lot of the time she has a hard time understanding everything! So the
spirit has truly been able to work on her! She continually tells us how she
wants to and needs to get baptized so that she can be sealed to her family! That
is what it is all about!! Helping people to make it to the Temple so that
Families can be sealed together forever because without the priesthood power
being restored and the ordinances done in the temple there would be no hope for
us to return back to our Father in Heaven!!
Then on Sunday we had a member fireside where Linda K. Burton, Neil Marriot, of
the Relief Society presidency and then Hugo E. Martinez were here visiting. It was
so great to hear them speak and bare simple testimony of the Savior and what
the people of Jamaica need to do to become a "Zion-Like" nation! It
was fantastic and we were able to bring Brother Mauris Tingling with us. The
person who has been gone for more than 10 years and has recently started coming
back to full-activity! I know I have talked about him before but it is so
awesome to see how the gospel changes people! It really is like a light coming
back on in somebody! When we first met him he quiet and didn’t talk a lot now
he jokes around laughs and seems like a lot happier person!! It has been really
great to help people come closer to our Heavenly Father and I am grateful for
that!
August 22, 2016
A miraculous week we have
had! Transfer calls came and I will be staying in Linstead as district leader
as well as training a new elder! So that will be exciting! I go down on
Wednesday to pick him up! Too bad elder porter had to leave but he was just
transferred to Spanish Town which isn’t too far away.
But for the week... we were able to get a lot
done with our investigators! We were also able to find a lot of new
investigators that have some great potential! But for a miracle this week: We
were riding down to see one of our investigators named Delroy. He lives by a
bar... so we are riding down this hill and can see that there is a lot of
people outside the bar talking to him. As we are riding up Elder porter and I
are saying to ourselves "and everyone be gone", "and everyone go
away". So as we ride up we find Delroy amongst the crowd of people and ask
if we are still good to sit down for a while. He said, “sure.” So we go and sit down and before we know it
EVERYONE was gone! I didn’t even realize they had left but they had all
vanished! It was really cool to see the power of Heavenly Father.
But as I continued to think about this it
reminded me of the story with Joshua and leading the children of Israel through
the Jordan River. The river didn’t part as priesthood bearers sat on the edge
of the river, they had to start walking into to the river to show their faith
and then the water parted! So as elder porter and I started into the crowd
instead of just riding by we were able to "part the crowd" so we
could have a lesson with Delroy to help him towards Salvation.
Elder Hansen
