I LOVE LOVE LOVE This gospel!!

Sister Shelley and I have had such an incredible week! It was full of lessons,finding, visiting, and so much more!

This week my testimony of prayer has really grown. Sister Shelley and I decided to say very specific prayers for our investigators. We have one investigator who has not been making any progress because she never has time to read in the Book of Mormon. We have told her it does not have to be much and testified thatit will help her if she reads in the Book of Mormon each day. Well on the day before our appointment Sister Shelley and I said a very specific prayer asking Father in Heaven to please bless her with time to read the Book of Mormon. As we went over to our lesson the next day we asked her, "Have you read in the Book of Mormon this week?" She replied, "Yes, I read this morning and it was so cool!" Sister Shelley and I were amazed! We were so thankful for prayer and knew that this was a direct answer to our prayer. She proceed to ask us many questions about the story of Nephi and was very engaged in our entire lesson, when normally we have a hard time getting her to talk. It was so amazing! She is finally starting to make progress and trust in us and this wonderful gospel.

After this experience Sister Shelley and I had the idea to have a ward fast next fast sunday for missionary work, but more specifically that ward members would have experiences that would progress into missionary dicussions and than to baptism. When we called the Bishop he said he would have to think about it and would let us know on Sunday. Well in Sacrament meeting the Bishop stood up and gave a beautiful talk and told everyone that we had this idea and that he thinks it would be wonderful for us all to join together and fast for this. It was great. We had members coming up to us all through church telling us, "We are fasting next week, for you!" It was really great to see the unity of our ward. I love the Langenhorn ward. The members are so strong and have such an amazing spirit. I know that as we come together in much prayer and fast, the lord will help us find those people who are prepared for this gospel

Here is a quick story of wonderness!! 

We had a lesson with Bruder Soltani and had a joint teach-he is this old german man named bruder Wolff and is crazy and had read teh Koran and is just crazy!! So we open the lesson and we start talking about the temple and the man who just got baptized starts telling us of all these problems tha the is having. HE WAS GOING NUTS! haha. It was hilarious. HE was laughing and than would get super serious! So basically the lesson went out the window and Old German Koran man and this new member just went back and forth. As I tried to gain control of the lesson and say something they would just mow me over. Literally for 20 minutes I could not say a word. Well after about 75 attemps at speaking I finally just said OKAY WE HAVE TO GO! haha. So our beautiful temple lesson that we had prepared was not even taught and the Spirit was not even there. I was thinking, "okay closing prayer and then lets go," and then I thought no, we need the spirit we need to sing. So my comp and I sang Nearer my God to thee- and I have never felt the spirit so strong. The Bruder Soltani just closed his eyes and thanked us after. He said he felt so much peace adn comfort. We ended with a closing prayer and we all left with the spirit. 

I love being a missionary! Each week seems to get better and better!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE This gospel!!

Much love! 

Sister JOSIE  Nilson