Hello ALL!!!!
I can't believe this is the last full week of my first transfer!!! This is just speeding by!!! Wowzie I feel like I have barely gotten to know the ward and the people!! It is crazy!! This week was only like the best week!! Seriously I still am just stunned at the miracles the Lord provided us!! It was incredible!! I have learned a lot this week about changing and becoming the best missionary and person the Lord needs me to be!! I have had a couple experiences that have helped me in that! The first was on Tuesday. We just got out of two lessons and afterwards we jus felt like there was something off. It was a very weird feeling and it is tough to describe. It was in that instance that we both decided to pray before an important lesson with Trisha. We both prayed before we went off, and in it I felt the Spirit come over me and I thought about a lot of things that we could have done better to fulfill our purpose as missionaries. And wow I learned a lot of stuff hahaha. Nothing like a good talking to from the Holy Ghost :). So we were off and entered the lesson with a good Spirit!! With that we had dinner at her house with her brother and his family, all of which are members. We taught her the plan of happiness and wow... The room nearly exploded with the Spirit!! Her whole family just was testifying like crazy and she was caught up in the Spirit then BOOM!! Elder Bernson hit her with the baptismal invite then BOOM!! She said yes, but that isn't even the cool part. The fact that because of that one lesson of which that intense of a Spirit, She now has that relationship. Since then, you have just been able to see how the Spirit has influenced her life! She is asking questions, coming to church, reading, and on and on!! Because of that opportunity she had to feel the Spirit, she now has the opportunity to come closer unto Jesus Christ, and to recieve a fulness of the blessings He provides... What a miracle? I know this gospel is true! Jesus Christ lives and He runs and is central to the church. What love!?This week at district meeting, I had the opportunity to share my experience in how the Spirit was able to convert me. And wow, as I really thought about it, how incredible. I am so grateful for what Elder Parkinson and Elder Layton did for me to experience that. They were incredible tools they were in the Lord's hands!! I am so grateful for my experience and even more so to share it!
The second experience actually comes from the song, "Come Though Fount". The last verse of the song has been rell powerful to me, and is as follows:
"Here's my heart, oh take and seal it. Seal it for thy courts above."
Before this it talks about things that get in our way from this goal. Things that take us away from God. No one is perfect. How perfect our God to allow and provide us a way. Through our Savior Jesus, I know that our hearts can be sealed in heaven for eternity. As a family! For this, I will cling to my Savior. Allowing His streams of endless mercy to pick me up and continue. To live, love, and recieve happiness!! That is His plan as we come nearer to Him! Wow!!
Sorry, but i am running very short on time so these are some really sweet people that we are teaching:
Bambi just got back!! So we will begin her interview process this week!!
Blanca... Is moving but she still wants to be baptized!!! So we are coordinating with the Elders downtown and hopefully we can go to her baptism!! She is so solid!!
Trisha is incredible!! Just doing all the right things!!
Sorry I have to go, Love ya!!
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