Miracles are abounding all around us where ever we serve. and here in Babylon it is no exception. This past week was amazing. The matter of us just being in peoples hiomes with Spirit has been incredible just to see them start to progress and want to learn more even if they at first don't want to.
There are two families that we are working with to "learn" Persian. Where we go into the house with the Spirit and they help us learn how to speak read and converse in Persian. This past week one family has really opened up and asked us a couple questions about God and about us as missionaries. NOt only that we had the chance to serve the father (thanks Dad for giving me the small foundation of computer knowledge and teaching me to problem-solve) and this opened him up the tiniest bit and he now more actively engages with us when we are at their home. They are already Christian and we are going to be taking a few more steps this week with them and another man that we are working with to learn Persian told us as we invited him to the Visitor Center performances this month said that "you know Islam didn't work for me maybe Mormon will." HE is such a sincere and wonderful old man we love him.
Another absolutely amazing and incredible miracle that happened last week was last night. There is this wonderful man Sam that we are working with and he came to the Visitor Center last night and he brought Eli (his wife)!! Which was awesome and we also had a member family with us at the Visitor Center who themselves are converts From Islam. That family is so strong and awesome. They helped us teach and testify so much about the restoration of the gospel. WE watched the Restoration video with them and the Spirit was so strong. Then we sat and listened to the Christus statue exhibit with them. She felt the Spirit and she believes Christ but she wants to know to really know that Jesus was the Son of God. All we could do was testify and she said she felt our words in her and we know it was the Holy ghost testifying to her. Before we closed with them Elder Larkin felt impressed to challenge them to close their store on Sunday and observe the Sabbath day. A commitment that we had been talking about extending to them. Sam was all for it as was Eli but she was a little hesitant. In a previous lesson we challenged Sam to read 2 Nephi 31 and before we could follow up with him he told us that he had read it and that he believed it and that he wanted to enter into the waters of baptism and that we needed to tell him when he could do it!!! So now we are going to sit down with him and figure that out. It was amazing and so was the prayer that was offered at the end of the lesson before they left. We truly love these people and we ant to serve them in any way we can.
Then literally right after they left while we were still at the Visitor's Center another couple walked in and desired to know more about the church. HE told us that they are going to move to America soon and that they were here visiting their son who is at UCLA so that they could buy a home here and eventually move and become a resident. However because he is going back to Iran soon we can teach him and help him come unto Christ but we aren't sure if we can baptize him until he can come back. However he wants to die a christian. Good thing we teach people about Christ. So our next official appointment with him is Christmas night back at the Visitor Center for a sing-along program! What a wonderful Christmas we are super excited for it.
Elder Craner
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