Sunday, September 8, 2013

Hello everyone! I hope everything continues to go well wherever you may be. Good luck with school to everyone who will be starting soon. Well... where to begin. This past week has been pretty busy. Sadly, a lot of our time was taken up with missionary things such as transfers, and dropping people off at the airport, and moving people into new houses, but we still have seen a lot of miracles. For one, that guy that I told you about last week who was led to the mission office is doing awesome. We learned that he didn't live in our area, so last week we had one final lesson with him with the set of missionaries whose area he belongs to. In the lesson, the young mans mother and sister joined in, and as we began the lesson, we learned some very interesting things. His mother told us that she had met with missionaries before not too long ago. She also told us that this young man's father who is currently dead use to investigate the church before he was shot and killed. Then, the young man told us that he had been having dreams before he met us of his father going to our church. AND THEN, he told us that he remembered seeing a Book of Mormon in his fathers dresser before he died. AND THEN, he started asking all types of inspired questions like where his father is now. needless to say we were overjoyed and excited to see a small part of how much the Lord has been preparing this young man to receive the gospel. But, the story gets even better... Yesterday, he came to church and he bore his testimony in fast and testimony meeting, and in his testimony he said that he had read up to 1 Nephi 13, and he knows that the Book of Mormon is true, and he also declared that he was getting baptized, and relayed to the congregation how the Lord had led him to the church. Now if that is not a miracle, I don't know what is. Yesterday, we also had an opportunity to teach some inactive members. We had a very powerful lesson, and the Spirit was there very strongly. I had met one of the members a few months prior, and each time I met him he was always pretty closed off and didn't show any desire to change. In the lesson yesterday though, both he and his sister opened up to us completely, and we were able to help them set some goals to make some changes. It was just awesome to see how the Spirit can penetrate hearts. Well, that was just a little taste of our week. It really is awesome being able to serve a mission here. I envy all of the missionaries that just barely started their missions last week. The work here is hastening faster then I have ever seen it. It is just an awesome time for Jamaica. I love you all, have a great week,

Elder Nugent

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