Recent Experience

I want to share something that happened to me this week. I went visiting teaching with the Relief Society President's daughter. We left and visited her sister at a hospital first, she had a baby the day before. Then we got on a crowded Taxi bus and rode to a VT appointment. I got to experience what types of home these people live in, they're small and surprisingly clean. We walked past many people and I thought I would be attacked or have my purse stolen, but nothing happened, only stares and talk. We visited two homes of recent converts, and you could feel the spirit in both homes. It was a truly humbling experience for me to see how these people live, yet they have hope and want Christ in their lives. One little boy who is 7 reminds his family to say their prayers and he was trying to read the Book of Mormon while we were there. He started crying when I told the mom that an Elder that he had grown close to had been transfered. His mom had just shown me a picture of the two of them that the elder had given him. That just shows how attached a family gets to the Elders that teach them. Missionary work is amazing and I'm very glad we got to experience it. Love all of you and have a great week. Sister Cornelius