Well, this week was pretty awesome.
We started out with the sealing, which was incredible. We
took a ton of pictures, and it was really beautiful. What we did not know was
that they were going to get sealed at 6, and we had gotten there at 4. So my
comp and I did a session, then went through with the couple. It was really,
really awesome. The president of the temple was super awesome, and the wife was
crying, it was really amazing. The temple president talked about eternity, and the
wife got a look of a deer caught in the headlights, it was hilarious, but she
got through it. And I got to be one of the witnesses! It was only me, my comp,
and the stake president there for the priesthood, so the stake president was a
witness, and I offered rock paper scissors to my comp for the other witness,
but he turned it down, knowing that I would have destroyed him. It was awesome.
Great time.
I was on divisions with my DL (ughhhhh) and we went to a
less actives house, like super-duper inactive, for about 8 years. so we went
and we talked, and my darn DL kept trying to say that she was terrible for not going
to church, while I was trying to be super supportive and trying to tell her
that it is all going to be ok, and that the Lord loves her and is waiting for
her. I then felt the impression to give her a blessing, and asked her if she
would like one, and she said yes. So I give it to her. And man, it was
incredible. As soon as I said the requisite beginning, I was basically full of
the spirit, and it was all guided by the Spirit. I felt like I was not even
there in a room with her and my comp, it was weird. I just knew what to say,
and it felt so incredible. I don’t really know how to describe it, but it was
absolutely incredible to be guided by the spirit in such a way. So then she
said that she would try to go on Sunday to church. After the lesson, we were
walking, and my comp said "dude, that was incredible, that was
powerful", and I said yeah, it was awesome, but it wasn’t me saying those
things, it was the Lord.
On the same day, we were with our investigator that we are
hoping to baptize in a few weeks, she is super positive. We taught her the Plan
of Salvation, and it was awesome. She said that the last time we were here,
after we left, she was fainting, and she went to the doctor and the doctor said
it could be a problem with her heart, so that she had to go to a specialist in
two weeks. Well, I felt prompted to offer her a blessing, and we did. it was
not the same feeling as the other one, but it was still, "wow", by
the spirit, and I blessed her to feel better, and to be healed according to her
faith and the will of the Lord, as we can’t really promise a healing, but we
can say "if it the will of the Lord" and the like. well, then we
prayed, and I told her to pray and she asked to the Lord if what we were
teaching was true, and she paused and pondered what she felt during the prayer,
as we asked her to do. When she said Amen, I knew that she had received a
response. So she knows. And talking after, she said that she felt like she knows
it is what she should do, but that she is still tied to Catholicism. I told her
that I know that she knows it is true, and she smiled, like, "yeah, I
know", and so she said that she would keep praying for help.
We helped her with painting her house (super awesome therapy
for my arm, holding something really helps to strengthen my fingers, even
though I felt like my arm was going to fall off after), and she was super
surprised when we turned down money, and only asked for some water. And this
really helped build more trust. So on Sunday, she went to church, so that was
awesome!!
Con Amor,
Elder Berg
