Elder Wagner Arequipa, Peru : Week 66

This week was another good one for the books! we worked super hard and found some awesome people!! I wanted to testify that the Spirit of the Lord can make the most prideful person quiet. This week we taught a prideful man that wouldn't let us talk, everything was only about him and he was the best in the world. We tried hard to get him to tell us why he fell away from the church, andhe didn't give us anything... he played his guitar for us, sang a song for us, told us stories, and showed pictures, but never told us why!! Eventually he started to tell us that we are some super smart preachers and that we went on a mission cause our parents said we had too. After he said that, we testified with everything we had, that we never were told we had to leave, we are not the smartest kids on the block at all, we don't know everything but one thing did happen in our lives, WE FELT, we felt the happiness, we felt the power, the burning desire, the over powering love of our Father in Heaven, we felt the Holy Spirit testify to us that this IS the truth, and that is why we are here, because we FELT it. After we shared our testimonies and had a good pause, he said, "thats what i needed, to feel." and he felt it in that moment, that this gospel of Jesus Christ is true. His eyes were opened and his heart was softened, we saw his change in that very moment! the spirit really made a prideful man quiet. the power of the Spirit is real, you can feel it like we felt it in that home with that man, as we kneeled to pray after the lesson the spirit testified to me that this is the true church and the mission that i am doing is real! I know that people change through this gospel! i have seen it in my own life and in others too!! i love this gospel!!!

that is just one of the experiences that we have had this week!! It was a great week!