Monday, November 2, 2015

Visiting the Priesthood Retoration Site

I hope you all are doing great. I had really amazing week. The lord really blessed us so much. We were quite successful at our finding and tracting this past week. We found this really solid investigator named William and he has been taught by the missionaries before. He stopped meeting with missionaries because he was going to really hard times. He had a lots of death in his families and after that he just kind of lost his faith. As we knocked on his door he immediately invited as in. We had really powerful lesson with him about atonement of Christ and the Book of Mormon. He was really happy that we showed up and he told us how he have been thinking about God lately and wanted have his faith back. 

Yesterday after church we found this former investigator named Nikki. She is so awesome and was really glad that we stopped by her. As soon as we gave her our contact information and left she texted us and thanked us for stopping by. She was being taught by the missionaries before back in May and they dropped her for some reason. On her teaching record it says that she was not interested but she told us that the missionaries just kind of stopped coming by her. We also found this potential investigator named Sydney. She is from Cameroon and she is so solid. Told us to come by anytime she is home cause she loves talking about God. We have appointment with her this Friday and I'm excited for that.

On Thursday we had opportunity to go to the priesthood restoration site In northern Pennsylvania as a mission. We all got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and met in Dover to get on the bus there. The travel there took us about 4 and half hours. It was really beautiful drive there thou, the trees were so beautiful and colorful. We spent about 4 hours at the site, and it was such a remarkable experience. We had the opportunity to go into Joseph and Emma's house where part of the Book of Mormon translation took. We also went into the Hales home. You can see so much difference between Joseph's house and the Hales. You can see that the Hales were well off just by looking at how nice their home is. We also went down to the river and saw that same river where Joseph and Oliver baptized each other. It was really spiritual experience for me. The spirit was so strong there, it gave me an additional witness that Joseph Smith was truly a prophet of God. I am so grateful for the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through prophet Joseph Smith and for the priesthood that has been restored back to the earth through him. If it wasn't for this gospel I won't be the person I am today. 

I hope someday you all will have an opportunity to go visit that priesthood restoration site. It's truly is wonderful place to be. Love you all and hope that everything will go well for you in life. 
Love Elder Haws!!

Here are some of the pictures we took at the site


 

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