June 8, 2009 Email

HI!
What an exciting week! Well first of all today sister Stevens and i got pedicures from a lady in our ward! Wow. What a sweet women trying to share her talents to help the Lords work go forth! and guess what? a women she works with heard her say my name and told her that i called her a few weeks before out of the blue.....when she told me the woman's name i realized that it was this women that we called because we thought we found her cat that we saw on a poster......and it wasn't her cat but i then continued to talk to her and taught the first lesson over the phone....so we are going to try to meet up now to teach her again.... did that make sense? Anyway....the Lord works in mysterious ways. Well guess what? while we were doing surveys and contacting people at the park we received a bit of persecution. Its fun to talk about now...but while it was happening it was not that cool. So this one guy i was talking to i could tell was not interested but just wanted to share his opinion....so i said goodbye and then he walked away and came back later and walked back and forth in front of our survey table singing very loudly this awful Satanic song as he was listening to his earphones. Of course people were wondering whats going on and i was trying to bear my testimony to this other guy who was basically crying as he was explaining his desire to have God in his life.... and i just felt the most terrible feeling.....and i was praying in my heart that he would leave......and he finally left after coming up and interrupting our conversation saying" don't take this personally. i just thought it was the perfect song for the occasion." yikes! evil. and then a couple of other guys said some terrible things about the church.....so anyway....... Satan was trying to get us down because of what was going to happen later that night...... We met 6 Jamaicans who are living in a house together saving up money to send back to their families in Jamaica. Bro. Calvert came with us to the appointment and it was the most spiritual experience of my whole mission. We taught the restoration and the spirit was thick. They are so humble and sincere and by the end of the lesson they couldn't wait to get their hands on a copy of the Book of Mormon. Please pray for them....The Lord wants them.
Also earlier this week we were walking down the street and started talking to a young guy and asked him the purpose of life...he looked at us inquisitively and said that was actually what he was thinking all morning as his close friend died two days earlier.....we walked to the library to talk more..... we taught about God......he didn't know He existed....... until the spirit overwhelmed him as we told him the love that God has for him and that he lived with Him before he came here. Tears streamed down his face.....and mine...... and he then told us he had been walking since early that morning and was feeling so heavy.....and he then said "now i feel so light." Now Gunnar knows God.
I cant express the love and gratitude i feel for my Father in Heaven. There is no greater feeling then knowing that you have been an instrument in His hands. My relationship with Him is real.... and is everything to me. This is His gospel...it is true, no power can stop His work! I love my Savior and Redeemer. He lives and His atonement is real.. its real for me, its real for you..and its real for your neighbor down the street who does not know about it. Go tell them. Love you all! Love, sister Flake