FAMILY! MY
GOODNESS MY GOODNESS!
MARTHA! She is a new
investigator this week! She said, "Most of the time I dodge the Mormons,
but this time I felt I needed to listen." She came to church and LOVED it.
She loved that the youth were so strong and had such powerful testimonies. For
me, the youth just have a more and more tender spot in my heart every time I
hear and see them. If they could only know the impact they have on the rest of
the world.
We had wonderful visit
from the Missionary Department this past week! There is still so much we must improve
on.
This morning we just
had a lesson with Sister Bridget Wilson. It has been the craziest roller
coaster of my life. There is lots of negativity out there as we’re aware of, and
it has been brought to her attention. It allowed Bridget to "...wax
stronger and stronger in her humility and firmer and firmer in the
faith..." It was so neat to see. At first when she was confronted with it,
she doubted, and took a step or two back.
We clarified some principles and she returned to tell her friend about
what we clarified and her friend was grateful for the clarification and
understood better these principles. Since she was 12 years old she has had many
misconceptions. However, because one dear friend took the time to explain and
share her testimony, her heart has been softened. WOW This morning she
shared with us an amazing experience.
Chrissy and Bridget
will be making their first covenant with their father in Heaven this
Saturday!!!
We visited a member
who has not been to church in quite some time this past week. We applied
principles taught in our missionary meeting the previous week. We taught her
about being sealed with her family for not only this life but most importantly
for the eternities. She was intrigued and touched by the spirit whispering truth
to her heart. She has a strong desire to be with her family forever!
"The Mormonitas,
mama, the mormonitas." (Michelle's 3yr old daughter)
Robert is doing wonderful! We walk into the lesson this past week and he has the Restoration DVD pulled up on his TV screen and the remote sitting on the coffee table ready to press play. The rest of the coffee table and couch were covered in pamphlets, the Book of Mormon, the Bible and notebooks, all open and studied and marked up. As soon as we started the lesson he says, "wait, wait, I got to get my notebook so I can take notes...what did you say again?" Multiple times throughout the lesson he says, "So I guess my next question is....so my next question is...what about this...?" I am sure this doesn't even seem real, but I promise you it is. This is the future. This is what it means when our Heavenly Father tells us he is hastening His work. We MUST be ready. People will ask us questions and we must know what to do. Can you imagine if every person in every sacrament meeting, every Relief Society meeting was this inquisitive? Heavenly Father would not be able to keep up with us.
There were five
wonderful families who were able to feel the love of the Savior yesterday at
church!
We finally got in
touch with the Davila family! (the ones where we invited the whole family to be
baptized and they looked at each other and said "Ya know, this has been in
our plans for a while, and we need to follow by example for our kids."
"We will be holding a service on May 10th, will you prepare yourself
for this day?" "Yes we can do that." We knock on the Davila's
door this past week and Patty says, "I still would love to meet, and the
10th is coming up right, pretty soon, isn’t it this Saturday?" First
off, they still want to learn! Second off, they remembered the baptismal date,
and still want to be baptized! YAY!
We have our first ever
SISTERS CONFERENCE tomorrow!
STORY! (no not another
the story, that is actually her name) Another wonderful mother! She has 6 boys,
is a single mother and just began a new job. Can you say new beginnings? We
showed her a picture of the Savior and asked what she saw in the photo. She said
"Compassion, love, joy, Atonement." You have got to be a member. Are
you sure you weren't baptized? She told us all about food storage and temples
and wards and all sorts. Where did we meet her? Just by a simple knock on the
door. THE LORD IS PREPARING PEOPLE TO RECEIVE THE GOSPEL. They might not know
where to find it, so we must help them and show them. They might be blinded,
just as we are blinded from truths that we don’t know, but we follow in
faith.
Sister Slaughter (our
mission president wife) shared with us an example of this. She is color-blind
and all growing up her mother would draw the half circle lines, one under the
other. There were some greens and some blues. But she had to trust in her
mother that there were seven colors. As she went into the test, she wrote
ROYGBIV on her paper and trusted that what her mother had told her was truth.
We may be blinded of those who are ready and prepared to hear the gospel BUT we
can do what we are asked to do and follow in faith in EVERY exact way. A lesson
I am still slowly but surely learning.
IT MOTHERS DAY AND
DAD's BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK!!! ~ Great news.....our mission has now been approved
to use SKYPE!
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