Can I tell you I am just grateful!
1. I have the BEST family! Really....I do!
2.
The sacrament! This week I really wanted to prepare for the sacrament
and have it be a great experience and as I did and I took the sacrament
it was such a sweet experience! I really can feel on Saturday the need
for the Sacrament every week! And it ALWAYS renews me! I cannot imagine
missing it for one week. I would be a wreck haha....
3. And
above all else have charity...because charity never faileth! I am
grateful for learning this throughout my mission! It was just solidified
through this week. When you have charity you are happier...even when
people are not charitable back...at all...haha! Everything goes better
when you have charity for at least something and it is something that
you can ask for.
4. The opportunity that we have to pray.
Sometimes people will be very mad and tell us to pray about certain
things that we teach. I always do because if we tell them to pray about
the Book of Mormon then of course we can pray about that! But I know
that Heavenly Father answers prayers. It is most of the time in VERY
quiet ways. That is because he trusts us.
5. Opposition! I am
almost happy when I experience oppostion because it can make me stronger
and it also helps me come closer to my Heavenly Father.
Okay I will stop....I really could go on forever! I love THIS GOSPEL. It teaches everything you need to know.
This
week we were door knocking and something must have been happening that
was affecting everyone's mood! They were all very angry. Some of it was
quite funny...but others I was just wondering how they could be okay
with themselves after the way they just acted! Haha! We got the door
slammed so hard once that we could feel it shake through our entire
body. But if the gates of Hell shall come upon us know this that it will
be for our good! :)
So this week other than that was very
good! People are just on fire here! Every lesson we went to the
investigator was just soo excited to learn and was reading and
progressing! It was very good!
This week we have two
baptisms one of Makenzie and she is ten and soo very sweet and one of
Scott! He is the funniest guy I have ever met! So great! I love them
both so much and I am so excited for them to take this step in their
lives! :)
We are also teaching Brother Mclean! His wife is
a member and he drinks a lot and has had a rough life but he is hands
down the sweetest guy I have ever met! You wouldn't think that when you
meet him but he seriously is so great! He is very into revelations and
is wonderful but loves to argue that Thomas S Monson is not a prophet
but I all the sudden gave him what we as missionaries call a "wild
promise" I promised him that if we would go one day with out drinking,
read a few talks by Thomas S. Monson and then go somewhere alone and
pray and ask God if he is a prophet that he would get his answer. It was
a cool experience and I know that he will get his answer. He agreed to
do it and so this week we will hear back! Oh Thomas S. Monson is a
prophet! :)
We are also teaching Robin and Ralphie they are
soo great! They came to church yesterday and they are just doing so
awesome! Robing said they are praying every day as a family and reading
together! :)
It is always so great to see someone
progressing! Youc an just tell it in their eyes whether or not that are
doing it! Everything goes better when you do what Heavenly Father tells
you! I always use this analogy when talking about obedience...I ask them
what kind of rules their parents gave them and then I ask them why and
they always say because they love me. I tell that my parents would
always want me to be home by
midnight
and it is not because they hate me and want to watch suffer it is
because they want to keep me safe and because they love me! Heavenly
Father is the exact same way! He doesn't want us to drink because he
know it isn't safe! He wants us to come to church and take the sacrament
because he knows without it we would be sad! Obedience to God's
commandments is freedom! I know that with all my heart! :) I love this
church sooo so much! I am soo grateful for my savior Jesus Christ and
for the opportunity that I have to be a part of his restored gospel! How
great that is! :)
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