11/30/15 The Season Has Begun!

 Tomorrow is December 1st and the Christmas season is here. Georgia is

ready to celebrate the birth of the Savior. Our stake is throwing a
huge Celebration of the Nativity this upcoming weekend, displaying
over 500 nativity sets, a live nativity, and a Christmas concert
Sunday evening. We've been handing out invitations like candy and
still have a ton left. It's going to be awesome :) All the sisters in
the zone/stake went over to help out for a few hours today to set up
Christmas trees.

We also get to celebrate the start of the season by going to the
temple this Wednesday. It's going to be great! It's been a long time
since we've gone and I always love going to the temple.

We had an amazing miracle this week. We had a great lesson with a
woman named Star. Her son apparently plays basketball at our church
building every week and so she at least had good feelings about the
church even if she had never known anything about it. Anyway, we had a
lesson, the most amazing lesson ever, with her this week. Soooo
elect!!! She was so excited and ready to listen to us, she was waiting
by the door for us to show up and had a Bible, paper, and pen ready on
the table. The lesson went like a role play. We exchanged back and
forth effortlessly, used scriptures with every point, and she gave the
perfect answer to every question. When Sister Jacobs was quoting the
first vision, I was holding up the picture in the pamphlet and Star
started to cry. She said she felt good. She felt warm. She felt like
it was true. She was so excited when we gave her a Book of Mormon and
promised to read the chapter we left her as soon as we left. She
committed to pray about a baptismal date and invited herself to church
next week. And right before we left, we found out the Bible she reads
from was actually printed and distributed from our church! Someone had
given it to someone who had given it to her years ago! There it was,
right on the title page: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. The Lord had been leaving lots of little clues throughout her
life pointing her towards the truth. So cool!

Love ya'll!
Sister Garver