Someone Found Us
Hello Friends and Family!
This week was a good week here in LaGrange! It’s
crazy how fast time seems to go by on the
This week, we had two awesome experiences I thought I
would share briefly.
First, Elder Sieverts and I saw an amazing miracle
while knocking doors in a neighborhood. We haven’t had any supplies (like
pass-a-long cards) for weeks now, because apparently the mission home has been
so busy lately. Basically what this
means for us, is it is a little bit harder than usual to do missionary work! However, we know that Heavenly Father is
helping us along the way, and knows the situation that we are in. We found a super awesome neighborhood to
contact in Hogansville (the city right next to LaGrange), and before we started
knocking, we prayed and asked Heavenly Father that more people would open up
their doors, because we didn’t have ANY pass-a-long cards to leave on the doors
if they weren’t home. As we started
knocking, sure enough, almost every single door opened-up to us (which is SUPER
rare!). It was awesome. As we were about
halfway through the neighborhood, Elder Sieverts found one last pass-a-long
card in his pocket, and we decided we would put it on a door if the Spirit told
us to. Towards the end of the
neighborhood, we came to a particular door, in which no one answered, and Elder
Sieverts said, “I just feel like this card should go on this door.” We left it there, and didn’t think anything
else of it. A few days ago, we got a
call from a woman who had gotten that card, and was interested in learning more
about the Gospel! It is so amazing to see how the Spirit works through every
method, as long as there is faith as its guiding principle.
The second miracle Elder Sieverts and I were
blessed to witness was very humbling. On
Sunday, we had an amazing Sacrament meeting! After the meeting was over, I
stood up and looked to my left, and all the way in the corner, was a man I had
never seen before, sitting there in just a button down shirt and a jacket. Elder Sieverts and I looked at each other, and
hurried over to him. We introduced ourselves, and we sat down by him and talked
with him for a minute. His name is James, and he said, “Well, I just feel so
dissatisfied with the Baptist Church. I come by this Church a lot, and thought
I would give it a try! I really loved the service, and EVERYONE has been so
nice to me!” What a miracle! This is the first time ever, on my mission that
someone has just walked into our Church building for a service, and wanted to
know more about the Gospel. We invited
him to stay the next two hours for Sunday school and Priesthood, and he said,
“YES!” It was so amazing, and I could just feel the Spirit testifying to me
strongly of how the Spirit can, if individuals let them, lead them to the true
and restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We got his address, and yesterday (Monday)
we stopped by and visited with him, and put him on date for Baptism! He seems really excited about the Church, and
seems even more excited about reading the Book of Mormon. Reflecting back, this
miracle has touched me deeply. Elder Sieverts and I have been praying for
several weeks to just find someone who was interested in the Church,
specifically because they are dissatisfied with their current
spirituality/religious level. We hadn’t
found anyone that really matched the description, until James walked into the
Church building! I just know that Heavenly Father works in awesome and
mysterious ways, and that He will put the Gospel in anybody’s path that wishes
to seek it.
I will not be able to write a letter next week,
because of Christmas, so I thought it would only
be appropriate to share my thoughts and feelings on the birth of the Savior,
and what the Savior’s life has meant to me. When I reflect on my short little mission so
far, I feel like I’ve been blessed to learn so much about who He is, and what
it meant to have a Savior born over 2000 years ago. However, I have become more aware every day of
the reality of His short life, and His Infinite Power and Eternal Atonement. I
do know that He is Risen, and that He was born ‘of a humble birth’. I know that
it was through His birth, and eventually His death, which allowed all of us to
be born again of the Spirit, and to be renewed into an everlasting covenant. I
do know that the Book of Mormon testifies, as another witness, of His birth. In
Helaman 14:5, we read, “And behold, there shall be a new star arise, such a one
as ye never have beheld; and this also shall be a sign unto you.” Although born
of a humble birth, even the Heavens and universes testified of this coming
Messiah. Although born of a humble birth, even the very gates of hell shook at
the reality of this Prince of Peace, of His coming, and of His destined path of
becoming King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. I do testify that Jesus is the
Christ, and Hell has been conquered. I do know that the cross he bore was
infinite in all magnitude, depth, and weight of sin. However, I do know that He
was, and is, that Infinite Deity in whom we praise forever of His coming,
because He was able to bear that infinite cross. Somehow, with all the deep
complexities, doctrines, and beauties of the Savior, there is in fact a simple
truth underlying the entire Gospel: this Christ was born in a manger, to two
humble parents seeking shelter for the night. As wise men fled to him, as
demons assailed to destroy His very existence through an earthly king named
Herod, and while a star burned bright above to witness it all, it is said that
the very heavens opened and sang, “Joy to the world, the Lord is come; Let
earth receive her King!” Let us take Christmas with heart, and with a love
towards our Prince and King; let us too cry and say, “Rejoice! Rejoice in the
Most High…”. I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I have never felt so
blessed to be able to wear His humble name on my shirt, over my heart, every
day. I know that this is Christ’s only true and restored church, and I know
that someday He will come again in full Power and Love, in Justice and in
Mercy, and will be the great Mediator of all mankind. I know, without a doubt,
that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God, and I know that Thomas S. Monson is the
current head of this, the Lord’s Church. Always, through it all, I do testify
that Christ was born, that He lives, and will continue to reign forever and
ever!
Merry Christmas!
Until Next Week-
Elder Robb
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