"I am the Light and the Life of the World"-Jesus Christ 4-28-2025

I know I have said this previously but this past week has been the Craziest week of not only my mission but my whole life up until this point....Monday was interesting I was able to feel so locked in with the spirit and I was comforted knowing the Lord is proud of how I use my stewardship and received a ton of reassurance and felt God's Grace and his love for me and that to me is a miracle. Tuesday I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do for my training in District council so what did I do? I prayed so hard and so many ideas flooded my mind and picked one and stuck with it and studied hard. I knew that the Lord loves effort and he just wants us to Go and Do and he will lead us as we do that. It was such an inspired training taking in a fact of all 7 missionaries in my district all of their strengths and weaknesses the Lord was able to take that and run with it. I felt the spirit so strong giving that training. I never wanna not have the spirit with me. We later then went to the metro station found a lot of people to teach and Had a good time. Wednesday was a great day we found 5 friends and had a baptism‼ I had the privilege of Baptizing our friend Henry and it was so special. I felt the spirit incredibly strong and later as we were changing he was talking about how he wants his sister to be baptized and he wants her to get back into church which is awesome. She was at the baptism and she loved it she said she felt the spirit so strong she started crying. She said she saw an aura of light surrounding the room during the baptismal service. It was truly a miracle baptism. Thursday we exchanged with and I brought an Elder from China into my area and we had a good time. I won't lie it was kind of hard to connect with him he doesn't speak super well English but it was really cool to feel and see the Love that God has for Him and how much he loves all of Children from all over the world and how this Gosple truly unifys all of us. We had a powerful exchange review and I roleplayed and taught him a flow I like to use when putting street contacts on date and he took that into his area and they put a person on date each day the rest of the week it was so awesome. Friday is when everything became so crazy....I will start off by saying I have been so in tune with the spirit like my whole mission and around 4:30 P.M at the metro I felt the spirit leave so quick and I felt what Moses refers to as "The Bitterness of Hell" I had an encounter I won't go in depth on but I told looked at my companion and said we need to get out of here now...I felt so sick inside I felt I was about to throw up but as soon as we left the metro I felt better. The rest of the evening was kind of off as we went out finding and stuff didn't really know why things were kind of normal though I had accountability calls and they were great! Later that night my companion and I were talking in bed before we slept and he asked me what I think happened at the metro and I told him and in that instant we had an experience that shook me and my companion that cannot be shared over email. I won't go into details but this much I will say....Jesus Christ is the light and the life of the world and I know this more than ever now...there is power in his name. The Book of Mormon has power...it has power that will cause the gates of hell to shut and to bring the light of Christ in our lives and illuminate our souls. Prayer allows the spirit to enter into our hearts and the surroundings we are in. The power of the Preisthood is real and truly does give us power from on high as we act in the name of Jesus Christ who is the source of all light. I now know and have a greater testimony of the first vision and with that I know the power and the light of Jesus Christ. I wish I could speak more but this suffices. Just let me extend an invitation to all of you to cling unto whatsoever thing that is good that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ. It is given unto all of us to know the light by which we should judge so cling on to that which is true for whatever is truth is light and that which is light is good and comes from God --My version of Moroni 7 Saturday I did a baptismal interview for a friend from the ivory coast and oh my gosh I love him and I was able to see the light of Christ in him. Unfortunately throughout the rest of the day we didn't find anyone and didn't see much success. I was still filled with a little bit of fear and shooken from previous experiences. Sunday was the day I was looking forward to...being gathered together as saints in The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Christ's church on the earth is just powerful. Being gathered with the power that comes from the sacrament as everyone renews their covenants and are just filled with the Holy Ghost. At church I felt like a little kid in his parents bedroom after a bad dream but I walked out of that Church building clothed with confidence knowing that Jesus Christ overcame and that I have the Holy Ghost with me at all times and that I have been endowed with power on high from his Holy Temples. I feel like Elder Holland when he says..... "I cannot speak fully of that experience here, but I can say that part of what I received was an admonition to return to my ministry with more urgency, more consecration, more focus on the Savior, more faith in His word" I love each and every single one of you there is a lot I could say even some of the incredible miracles I have seen but I'm not trying to write a book. Shoutout to Gus my main man always as well as my family I love them, and my second family too, the Murrays. Send me an email or something I really appreciate all of the ones I get Love- Elder Williams