We had an AMAZING week!!! God's hand was definitely involved! Wow! I'm definitely seeing how when we have the faith to obey God, to follow the mission rules, to focus on the work, to work diligently even when it's hard and hopeless, then we will see the miracles. Faith always comes first. And sometimes God just sends you some tender mercies like He did this week! So we have goals for the mission, and this last week in District Meeting we talked about how each companionship needs to set goals to reach so they can do their part in meeting the mission goals. So we went home and set our goals. Now of course we always have goals, but these ones were different they were the absolute minimum of what we needed to reach. Well on Sunday during church I was looking at our goals and thinking wow we have meet all of them except baptismal dates, we needed one more, but I was like well there is no way we'll get one because we aren't meeting with any of our investigators who are ready for a date. Well guess what, when you do everything in your power, God will make up the rest. We got a baptismal date handed to us!! Okay so let me go back to the beginning. So on Friday we got a media referral for a kid named Michael Kingston, from his friend, Christian Collins who is a member and was up at a youth conference in Kirtland and filled out a referral card. He requested a Book of Mormon. So on Saturday we dropped by to give him the Book of Mormon and asked if he wanted to be taught, he said yes and said he was actually coming to church with Christian on Sunday. So we set up a time to teach him after church. Oh Michael is 17. So after church we have a great lesson with him, he already believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet and the Book of Mormon is true, and we set him to be baptized on September 6th. And it is all because Christian talked to him about the church. He already knows a lot and already knows it is true because of a wonderful friend who wasn't afraid to share his faith!!!
We got another media referral and we are teaching her on Friday. We had so many members come out with us, it was so great! We had a great lesson with several of our investigators. Some of them are progressing slowly, but they are progressing!! YAY! I LOVE Fairmont, this is the busiest I have ever been. And we actually have good legitimate investigators, not some old people looking for company, or someone who wants to bash with us, or someone who just can't say no, so they let us come in. These are people truly prepared and searching for truth.
On Sunday, we had a wonderful testimony meeting. The Spirit of God like a fire is burning! Totally how I would describe it. So many members got up and bore powerful testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, that Joseph Smith is a prophet, we have a prophet today, this is the only true church, and how they know it. Exactly what our investigators who were there needed to hear. Those members don't know it, but each of them added to the wonderful Spirit that was there either by their testimony or by their reverence. And as such they were part of this great work in touching someone's heart. I could have hugged all of them!
Well this is going to be short. Attached is a picture of me and Sister Reeves. I love you all. Have fun and safe harvest, it's strange but I'm kind of missing it right now.
Love ya bunches and bunches, Sister Nicole Polatis
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