Hello Everyone!!!
We have had an amazing week!
1. CHRISTMAS! We had such a great Christmas! A lot of people from around the Salt Lake Valley donated different things and gifts to our mission and we all got a cute little stocking and had a great Christmas morning :) Square was closed for a while and we got to call our families, which was great!! I think the best gift I received, however, was from Elder and Sister Matthews... it's a true story they told us!
We had been talking about the importance of journal keeping, and about writing down the insignificant things that may mean something to us later. Anyways, an example given was how last week they had been walking through the Visitors Center, and they ran into one of the actors from the musical presentation "Savior of the World" performed in the Conference Center theater every Christmas. It depicts the nativity and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The actor told them that the missionaries on Temple Square did an amazing job and that two of the missionaries here had given out three tickets to the Savior of the World performance to a little family with a 4-year-old daughter. He said that he had the privilege of talking to this family before and after the show, and that he learned that the family didn't talk about Christ in their home because they wanted to give their daughter her own opportunity to choose what faith she wanted to follow when she was older, so the girl didn't know anything about Jesus Christ. Anyways, the show started and ended and afterward the actor went back to talk to the family. The mom gave him the biggest hug and told him that she had never felt anything like what she felt during the show, the little girl then hugged him as well and asked him - "Why did Jesus have to die?" the actor got emotional, and explained to her that it was because Jesus loved her, and wants her to come back to live with Him again. The little girl so excitedly said that that was exactly what she wanted - to go back and live with Jesus. The actor was so emotional when he told the Matthews this story, and wanted them to know that what we do here makes a difference.
The Matthews told us this story as we ate lunch as a district, and asked if there would be a way to find the Sisters who gave out those three tickets. The whole time they were telling the story, I was thinking about a tour that Sister Deighton and I had given a few weeks ago, to a family of 3 with a little 4 year old girl who hadn't been taught about Jesus before, that we had given Savior of the World tickets to... after the show, the mother had messaged us on Facebook and told us that the little girl couldn't stop talking about Jesus and that they loved the show. I told the Matthews that I thought it was us, and they ended up getting us tickets to go see the show again and meet the actor! We talked about the family, and sure enough - it was them!
I think for me, the most powerful thing about this isn't that the little girl was so touched when she finally learned about Jesus Christ, but how the actor we met couldn't speak of the experience without getting emotional - they seemed to have had just as big an effect on him as his show had on them.
I have a testimony of the reality of our Savior Jesus Christ, that He lives and loves us, and that He wants for all of us to return to live with Him - that's why Jesus had to die. So that we could all live.
Merry Christmas <3
--Sister Black
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