Joel 2:28 If you Build it He Will Come 9-1-2025

Friends family wow I had probably one of the most impactful weeks ever on my mission I mean I don't know if that's measurable but just know great things are happening here in The Lords Vineyard. Before I hop into it I express my love and gratitude to each of you. All that I have and all that I am is because of My Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. My Heavenly Father, our God, has placed each of you in my path so I thank Him and I thank you! Monday I had a very personal and very Sacred experience. I won't share here, but it was an experience born of the Spirit and will have a lasting impact on me. Monday our Pday we had no plans whatsoever so I decided to hit a 4 hour personal study filled with pondering and praying. We had a friend who was headed to Florida on vacation and I really wanted to teach her before then, so for our pday we called some senior missionaries and had them pick us up, take us to the church, and tour it with our amazing friend! Wow oh wow we had a beautiful lesson the spirit was so strong she felt like she was Home and it touched her. She Is an angel and an answer to many prayers. The spirit is present in our Consencrated Church Buildings and God is Gathering His Children. I remember that night I met a guy who was not interested but while I was in the Middle of Testifying to Him of Prophets Apostles and The Lord Jesus Christ I had de-javue almost as if I have been there before testifying of my Savior. He was not interested but it brought Joy to my soul and I Knew the Lord was proud of me and I could not deny it! Tuesday we had District Council and it was powerful I Gave a Training on a subject that I just love and that is Love, Lift, Support...Teaching and Inviting the Saviors way. I always love teaching and Testifying of Christ and training missionaries. I remember particularly that morning praying that the spirit will magnify my capabilities far more than I ever could on my own as I taught and trained. During roleplays with a missionary I gave one of the most perfect Roleplays filled with the spirit and I just remember mid roleplay my mind went wow I'm not even doing anything right now these are not my words and these are not my ideas. God took over and it was so cool it helped this young missionary out! I'm just humbled to be here. Wednesday I exchanged with and Elder in the Persian branch. 2 months ago before I was district leading over this Elder I felt a strong prompting that He needs me and I will have an impact on his life. Fast forward a month and a half I become his District leader haha. Fast forward to our exchange I remember Him talking about His struggles and the stress he is under and the positions he is placed In almost everything he relayed to me I have been through...I have felt...I understood... It was so weird and so cool to have been there for Him. That Day we worked hard. I won't lie it was a very weird day. As we talked to people in public every other person we talked to disagreed with our faith although we had a positive interactions with them we were able to testify of Jesus Christ. This Elder was able to learn Meekness and How to be a peacemaker. That Is what he needed and the Lord knew it and He sent his finest non denominational Christains at us to Help him learn that God works in mysterious ways. We had an experience where while we were teaching a Guy of African American Decent some Hebrew Isrealite brother whom I have met previously came up to us, interrupted our conversation, reminded me that because I am white I am going to hell, and wouldn't let us teach this black guy. It was wild. Besides that it was a powerfull revelatory memorable exchange. Thursday was hard I was beat I was exhausted I have been working so hard so many things going on. We kept running into people who wanted to challenge us again it was lame. I remember after biking and walking finding people in a townhouse complex I was just so thirsty and exhausted I said a Lil prayer and then vocalized to my companion I need water and I'm hungry and beat. Next thing you know I turn the corner and some Latino landscapers from El Savador offer us 4 bottles of water and cut up a whole watermelon for us. God is so aware D&C 84:80And any man that shall go and preach this gospel of the kingdom, and fail not to continue faithful in all things, shall not be weary in mind, neither darkened, neither in body, limb, nor joint; and a hair of his head shall not fall to the ground unnoticed. And they shall not go hungry, neither athirst. I testify Heavenly Father is aware. Later that Day we had a church tour with somone who seemed like he could potentially challenge us and our doctorine so we got some senior missionaries with us and the Council I received was to he Bold with Joseph Smith. Being super Bold is something I have been praying about and this lesson was super interesting. Let's just say the spirit remained but I learned some valuable lessons on how to be Bold like Jesus Christ. The rest of the day I was beat and exhausted again still working hard. That night I prayed for dreams and Revelation on How I can be Bold.....I Dreamed a dream... In this Dream a Non member Mother of a Missionary son was mourning the passing away of her son and exclaimed her desires to see him again. I comforted this woman and ministered to her and showed her love. While doing so I assured her she can see her son again someday. While relaying this to her she expressed "oh how I hopes so" Meanwhile I knew that she could have a sure knowledge and be sealed to him in the House Of The Lord but I didn't want to take away from her grief so I wasn't Bold with the fact she can be baptized and sealed to her son. Later on I remember distinctly I stood in front of the Savior amidst a crowd. A lot of details are blurry but I remember the Love that I had for the Savior and as my eyes met his without saying a word I knew that He Knew I held back. I wasn't as Bold as I should've been or could've been. I knew that when I met the Savior I wanted to feel as if I have Given every ounce. I knew that I loved the savior and that he was my why. With that Love and that why, I went back to the Mother Who lost her son and was Bold with her. I taught her of covenants and Invited her to make them. I woke up and a quote from My Mission President came to my Mind. "You can never be too Bold if it's with Love" Recently I have been so focused on loving others I didn't want to offend. I learned for myself that with Jesus Christ I can connect the two and Help all. Moroni 8:16 Behold, I speak with boldness, having authority from God; and I fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear. I have learned for myself what perfect love is and can testify of these things. I of course have still worked hard and havnt been slacking off the Lord is just helping me Be better each day and for that I am grateful. Friday was beautiful we were led by the Spirit the whole day with promptings by and by and it led to many miracles! One of them was a family we were about to drop we havn't been able to get in contact with and didn't seem interested said they wanted to come to church and learn more about Jesus! It was so cool I was happy, My comp was happy, God was happy, and the family was so excited to come! I can testify of the Guiding power of the Gift of the Holy Ghost! Saturday was so miracle filled it's crazy! We planned on Giving a training on Missionary work for 5th Sunday to the ward and to accomplish this we planned on creating a slideshow. I remember the whole week I studied, planned, and prepared but I had no idea what to share with the whole ward. We also had 3 family's projected on coming and visiting for the first time so we wanted it to be inclusive. I remember Saturday during lunch I took a power nap 15 minutes on the recliner and I woke up out of nowhere and was filled with energy and it hit me like brick on what we needed to share and the format of it came clear in my mind. It was so cool! We biked to the library and put the slides show together and wow the spirit was pretty strong. Never before have I felt the spirit like that while creating a slide show. Afterwards we went to dinner at a Chinese members house and while planning for the message we'd share I was like "let's talk about Joseph Smith" which is super weird because they are active members. 15 minutes later when everyone arrived for dinner a nonmember from China was invited and showed up which we had no idea about along with some other members from our ward and wow this was powerful. The friend who isn't a member grew up in China so he was Buddhist and didn't know who God was and has just been seeking to find him and he has wanted wisdom and knowledge he said as to who God is. He had some cool experiences leading up to this dinner and as we shared the Joseph Smith story the spirit was so strong it was almost tangible. We testified Boldy of Heavenly Father and His son Jesus Christ visiting Joseph Smith l can't tell you how much of a miracle this was. We invited him Boldly to be baptized to have the spirit with him always and he politely declined but is interested in meeting! So many cool miracles. Sunday might have been the coolest day ever. We had 3 family's at church counting a total of 10 visitors coming to church for the first time and it was powerful. Our ward is super small and for the first time even on labor day weekend our chapel was looking full and it was so beautiful. We had the lesson that Sunday for all the adults while the other set of missionaries in our ward took the youth and it was a spirit filled party. The slideshow we made and presented was powerful. I actually used Gus a little in it shoutout to him I yoinked a picture back in November of last year when they baptized so many people and took a picture and it brought power into our meeting. We testified and taught Love share and Invite while teaching Jesus Christ's earthly ministry and the Doctorine of Baptism. Afterwards I Boldy invited one of the family's to be baptized and they loved the invitation but said not yet they are still searching but they will meet with us and be back next week! That Sunday our zone had 3 baptism throughout the day. We invited one of our family's who are from Ethiopia and they came! It was the most spirit filled baptism and it was beautiful to see them there! The loved it so much! I could see the spirit Distill upon the family during the baptism. The father loved it so much and he said he has never felt the spirit that strongly before or experienced anything like it. I Boldy invited him to be baptized (although he is Ethiopian orthodox a very traditional faith) He said he wants to but won't accept a specific date. He begged us to learn more and it was powerful. The whole family wants to be taught and felt the spirit strongly. I have learned that there is nothing more powerful than having your sights set on the future and envisioning a vision for anything in life wether it be on the mission or off the mission setting your sights on the future and willing it into existence. D&C68:4 And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation. When you speak with the Holy Ghost you will be able to prophecy and you will become the Mind and the Will of the Lord as you set your visions on the future with faith in Christ and Put in the work. I have a testimony of this. 2 months ago coming into this area the members wouldn't really engage with us missionaries. The finding sucked we live in an area where it's super populated and so everyone we found lived out of town or out of state and so no one would come to church. No one would get baptized, and it has been a hard area to work for a while. I told My companion I said we need to unite with our members and then God will bless us with people put in our paths that are in our area. Little by little we would see random people put in our paths but they wouldn't progress much but they lived in our area! As we focused heavily on uniting with the ward and working every angle little by little miracles happened. We became united with the ward. There was a shift in energy. The ward was ready. Transfers came and they split our area in half making it one of the smallest areas in the mission and we received 2 new sets of missionaries and they took the other half. I knew God was preparing this ward for baptisms and there was momentum. I told my companion since we just had rich neighborhoods that God wants us to Go to the Burbs and find a family. That very day we knocked some nice homes and found the coolest family!! It was so spirit led! Little did I know that God would place two more family's in our path and God isn't stopping there! We keep seeing huge miracles and huge momentum! The Lord is hastening his work! "If you Build It He will Come"- Tysons ward Joel 2: 28-29 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. I love you all please feel free to reach out to me! Also happy birthday to Dixie she turned 1! Stay sweet-Elder Williams