Mission Miracles from Elder Alden Campbell

March 22, 2009

testifying first experiences:

Saturday. Elder Platt and I basically had a whole day of contacting because we couldn't set up with anybody. In the morning we had planned to go to one of our vila knocking areas and go knocking there. As it turned out, we didn't knock any homes at all. We ended up street contacting people in the neighbourhood. We entered the neighborhood and passed by a bunch of workers...I had the feeling that we should talk to them so we came back around the corner and approached the group of workers. I asked if we could help and they said we could help shovel if we wanted...but it turned out that we just talked a while to this one guy that had come out of the house (under construction) while the other workers sat back and made fun of us the whole time. We just ignored them and kept talking / teaching this one dude that was listening. He got really excited when we asked him about his family. We then told him that the BOM has helped our families more than anything else and he took a copy. We got his number and are gonna set up with him later on (soon). Then we had prayed about what streets to contact and made a little a street route to contact on. As we were on those streets they actually were mostly empty but we just kept going on. On one of the streets there was only an old man and so we stopped him....that didn;t go anywhere but as soon as we were finishing up with the old man a younger man with his little baby girl on his shoulders came and by and we kind of stopped each other. He told us he wanted to draw closer to God and change his life. We told him about how the BOM helps strengthen the family and gives understanding to life and eternity. He took it and he also said that he would come to church on Sunday (which he did). Later that night we went to a return apt....we got bunged and so we left the street and started walking to a street that we had planned to go to if this were the case...and then the spirit told me that we needed to go see Mangu ( a lady that we vila knocked about a month ago and taught her a part of the purpose of life ). We had already gone a ways out but it felt rigth to turn back. So we did. We had tried to go see her a number of times but it was also in the day and she was never home. So, this was evening and I thought to myself...we've never tried her in the night time yet. We got to her house and she was home and so was one of her guy friends and we taught them the restoration. It was a spiritual lesson. She was feeling the spirit almost constantly. She is suoer humble and receptive...ready to hear the gospel. She told me that she was gonna come to church (she didn't). Saturday was a very guided day.


Dorin (the dude with the young daughter that we stopped on Saturday) participated and learned a lot at church. He wants us to teach him more.


Last week Elder Wilde and I went street contacting at 2030 after a lesson and the last person we talked to was a young family. We testified first and the end result is that he took a BOM (happens a lot anyway) and he wants us to teach them more. We had set up a return apt but we called before we were going to leave and he told me that he couldn't meet but that he talked with his wife about it and that they wanted to come to church and asked if they could bring their little daughter too. They didn't come but he is super humble and sincere and so we will probably meet with him this week.