McKennah and Kaitlyn Fitzgerald
This week has been a very interesting/ good week. I have had a experience this week that I feel like I need to share, I hope whoever is reading this email will learn from my experience and can help themselves grow more spiritually and improve their testimony of the gospel.
A few days ago my companion Sister Abril and I tracted into a man named Michael. Just a little background about Michael, he doesn't have hardly any religious beliefs. In fact he hates the word believe and faith, he doesn't think that they are real or a reliable source. Michael loves science, and so he is pretty big on having facts. He "Believes that there is not a God, and if there is one he would not love us or care for us. He believes that God sees us as "ants" and that we are insignificant to him. He believes that there is no savior to save us from sins. He thinks that Jesus Christ was just a cool guy that everyone loved." That is just a little background about Michael, so we tracted into him a couple days ago, and we taught him the plan of salvation and he loved it! We invited him to read from the Book Of Mormon and pray about it to see if it is the word of God and that we would talk about his experience the next morning. Well the next morning came around and Michael was ready to meet with us. He told us to come sit down, and he slams down just about every anti-mormon article that he could find. He tried to tell us that we are being brain-washed and that everything that we believed was wrong. He said "God doesn't care about us, God doesn't exist, and he did not send a savior to save us from sin." I was so sad to see how much Satan had blinded him about the truth. I can honestly say I loved this man. God had blessed me with his love for Michael at that very moment. Instead of becoming mad or frustrated with Michael I ended up just bearing my testimony as tears fell from my face with the strongest conviction. I bore testimony that Jesus is the Christ, that he died for us. And that God loved us perfectly and he values us as much as any other of his other creations. We were created in his image, how could he not love us? I am grateful for this experience and for the lesson that I had learned. I testify that God loves us. HE LOVES YOU. I love ya'll, I hope you have a great week!
(No pictures sent from McKennah this week....here's an older one I never posted of her and Sister Kendall at Bob's baptism)
Momma!
I know a couple weeks ago, I had a hard time with Sister Abril, but We have been together for a whole transfer now, and I have just come to love that girl. I have prayed for the spirit's guidance to help me move forward in our friendship and companionship. It is hard having a comp, but if we choose to love that person and enjoy being around them then that is when we will have a successful missionary. Sister Kendall and I got along no problem! At times I miss having a companion like her but I have decided to search for the good things in that person.
This week has been way interesting. We tracted into this investigator named Michael and he was a lot like Bob, he didn't know where he stood in religion. We taught him the plan of salvation and he loved it! We asked him to search the scriptures and pray, and then we would talk about his experience the next day, he said okay. The next day we went to visit him he had a stack of papers full of ANTI-MORMON. We went there thinking that he tried to read and pray but he had some anti, and he had many questions for us. So, We let him ask questions and we answered them no problem and that really bothered him! So he tried to tell us some of the things he read and said that what we believed wasn't true and that there is no God,and if there was a God, then he would send us all to hell. No Jesus Christ, and that we were not saved from our sins. Man, I was just so upset. Here was this man telling my comp and I these things and I just spoke up with tears in my eyes and said, " I know this church is true. I know that joseph smith did see what he saw, I know that Jesus Christ was my savior and that he did die on the cross for me. If I was the last person to believe these things, I would still stand up for myself. If my life was on the line I would die for my beliefs in this church. " And he was stunned, he knew that I had a strong conviction for this church. I told him that I would be glad to offer the closing prayer and then leave. The sad thing about this story, is that I loved this man. I really did. God has given me a gift to love people, and that is why this was so sad. It broke my heart that he really thought that There was no savior to save us. It broke my heart that he thought if there was a God he wouldn't care for us. There are some people in this world who really do feel this way. Who really do have these thoughts. I am so grateful for my conviction in the gospel. I am grateful to have chosen for MYSELF to believe these things, and then share them with others. I am sorry this is such a long email, but these were my thoughts this week. I love you!
McKennah with Sister Jacque Fitzgerald and Sister Abril. Sister Fitzgeralds husband is the bishop of McKennahs ward
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