David is Getting Baptized!

This week in the Nevada Las Vegas Mission was great!!

We had Elder Alonzo, an area authority, a special representative of Jesus Christ, come and talk to us for 3 days. It was amazing!!! We learned about listening with love, not teaching people but helping them learn, and using the Book of Mormon to convert. One thing I really loved that he said was when we extend invitations, telling them that this is an invitation from God. As representatives of Jesus Christ, we are not inviting you to do it because we want you to but because God wants you to and he has blessings for you when you do it. So what are you going to do with an invitation from God? Isn't that a cool perspective?!

We got a call last night with some exciting news! I will be staying in my area for another 6 weeks and getting a new companion, Sister Stevenson. A lot of missionaries have been telling me that she is super nice, upbeat, and talkative. I am excited!

Sister Juber is going to Kingman and will be an STL (Sister Training Leader). She already had her bags packed when we got the call and was very grateful to get transferred lol (I was too). She's been in Villa Bonita for 7 months and is ready for a change. This week we made sure to take a bunch of picture with some of our friends that we've been teaching. I'm grateful for the time I've had to learn from her. She's a very obedient missionary and helped me learn what it means to act and speak in a way that shows I am a consecrated representative of Christ.

Last night, we were walking around this neighborhood and there were a group of 10 year old boys running around trying to interview people for a school project. They were wild. When they got up to us, we said they could interview us if we could interview them after. So they started asking us a bunch of random questions like what our favorite color is, our favorite dance move, and then the last question was if pineapple belongs on pizza. Obviously we said yes and they all went crazy and ran away. A few seconds later they came back and we briefly talked to them about God and Jesus Christ. It was good:) After talking, we gave them our numbers and went back to street contacting.

As we were leaving the neighborhood, we looked behind us and they had all followed us running! One boy, Tristan, ran up to our window and scared us so bad. Had us rolling for a good 10 minutes haha.

The missionaries have been teaching this really old frail man named David for about 3 years. He wants SO badly to be baptized. However, he gets sick super easy so he hasn't been able to come to church in person but will watch the meetings over zoom. His baptism is in 3 weeks and the rule was that you have to go to church in person 3 times before you can be baptized. But it wasn't looking like it was going to happen for him. We got special permission and he can get baptized!!!! Such happy news! When we told him this, he started crying saying how he knows God hears his prayers and how thankful he was. It was precious. I love sweet David.

Love you all! Have a great week! 

XOXO Sister Coon

David

Leesa

Gary

Tarah

The district