A day at McDonald's

So this week was really good! We got to teach a lot of people, and I was able to go to the City on exchanges! So I was like really excited about that because I love the city, it was where I was born! but we had some great experiences teaching there. We went to meet up with this lady who is Chinese, but she came here to go to school and get a good job. Well they had to meet with her at McDonald's and we were kind of hesitant going there because it was... well in McDonald's. And there is loud music going off and all this stuff. But anyways we go down and sit by her in this small table. There are two other tables right news to her with two men sitting down. I love the Chinese, and working with them in the past, because they are such good students! She got out the Restoration pamphlet and there was tabs in it, things highlighted and questions written in it. So she just starts as soon as we sit downs and says, "Ok, who is going to say the prayer, I said the closing prayer last time, you its one of your turn. And I will say the closing prayer." haha It was perfect, I loved her right off the bat! And so we just started answering all her questions and teaching her about our Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost. Well the huge African American man comes up behind us (who was sitting two tables down) and is like "excuse me are you Christians?" and then he asks what makes you guys different from Christians, or Catholics? Well this is perfect! I love this questions! So we just started to answer him and talk to him about priesthood authority and Christs ministry and the Book of Mormon. While this was going on the man that was sitting at the table right next to use gets up and leaves. I was nervous he was annoyed, well I think he was... when he comes back he says "Do you have like a dollar or something to buy me a burger?" But really I think that was just his creative way to get into the conversation, because he just starts to ask us all of these questions about how we are different. We offered him a Book of Mormon and he said, "Honestly I would just do the same thing I do with the J. W. and throw it away." so we continue to talk to him and tell him more about how the Book of Mormon is a Second witness of Jesus Christ and His teaching to Gods Children on this earth and how God talks to His Children all over the world and will continue to talk to them. It was the coolest things he said, "Yeah, or send them to McDonald's." His whole demeanor changes, his heart was softened because the spirit was present that day in McDonald's to bear witness to Him of the truthfulness of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. He later said, "I guess I'll take back what I said about not taking your book..." Ah! I was dying in my heart, I couldn't fathom what was going on, but than I could because the Lord loves this man and knows his story, He has lived his story. And we got to teach him in McDonald's with two other people who all were searching for the truth.

In Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, the days come... that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a hearing the words of the Lord: and people shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."

This is true today, as we teach people they are running to and fro looking for something, and may not even realize it. The word of God is was fullfilled this need for "something more" in life that people are looking for. I know and bare testimony that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored on the earth again, and that we can through His teaching find what we are looking for. I know that My Redeemer Lives, and that my Heavenly Father loves all His children and through everyone of us we can do His work to bring to pass His work and His glory. Joseph Smith is a true prophet who was called of God to restore Christ true Church back on the earth, and President Thomas S. Monson is a living day prophet who is directed by our Father in Heaven to be able to have a living Church and thriving gospel. I am so thankful for the opportunity to teach this everyday.

I hope you have a wonderful week, I love you and miss you :) Until next week!

Love, Sister Tincher