Throw a Family Home Evening

Glen and I offered to do a Family Night for a family in the ward and they could invite some non-member extended family members and a non-member friend. It takes planning and co-ordination with the other missionaries and I always wonder why we volunteer to do these things and then they turn out so great that we volunteer again!

This time a niece (sort of, Spanish style) came with her two children and also the friend of the member's daughter came. The teen-age friend has had one lesson with the sister missionaries already but is real new to all of the gospel concepts.  She is so excited because she "is learning in order" about God (her quote). It is always such a delight and so satisfying to offer answers to every question.  She said she was confused about how you get faith in something and then she went to our Young Women's class that day and the lesson was on how you get faith in something!  She says she knows that wasn't a coincidence!

The other lady, the niece, was really quiet. For a Catholic to hear that God is our literal Father in Heaven AND that he has a body of flesh and bones is down right shocking. But her two children just soaked it in. We sang I Am A Child of God.  We put a string on their fingers to help them remember things like what they had for breakfast that day.  And we told them that they don't remember when they were born but their mother did.  Then we said we were going to tell them things about BEFORE they were born and the hints Heavenly Father gives us and the string on their finger would help them remember.  Then one missionary read and showed the first two pages of the Children's Old Testament book about our pre-earth life in heaven. Then Glen showed the YouTube video I Am A Child of God. And the other missionary bore testimony about this principle so that the Holy Ghost could witness that what we had said was true.
After, we asked each child who they were and they answered right off that they were a child of God.

Of course we played the candy bar/pencil game after while one missionary sat by the children's mom and explained about the church and the Book of Mormon and gave her one. It was an absolutely wonderful experience.

And then we all had cake because it was one of the missionary's birthdays.