23 September 2013
So I’m getting pretty excited!! Pauline’s baptism is this
weekend on Saturday at 11! I’m so happy for her. She was so prepared and loves
the gospel so much already! She wants to get to the temple! We’ve been meeting with
her every day and will up until her baptism. I am so excited. I can’t even
believe this is real. The scary thing is that transfers are on Thursday and we
don’t know who will stay and who will go. I hope at least one of us can be
there to support her. I can’t believe I actually, already have a baptism. It’s
my first transfer. I don’t really feel like it was me though, it was definitely
the Lord. He did it all.
-Sister Simkin's and I are getting really close and I am
getting sad at even the thought of us being separated. I will miss her heaps. I
will also miss this area a ton. I have gotten so used to the area and the
people, just the atmosphere. It will be weird to change but I’ll do it if I’m
asked. I trust my mission president and I trust the Lord. He knows what I need.
I truly do love the area though. Yes, I do feel like it’s slow sometimes but
that’s my fault. I need to get out and work harder to find people. The elders
in our ward/area just found 2 new investigators and they have baptismal dates.
So it is possible in any area.
I really do love missionary work but honestly sometimes I
just don’t feel like doing it. Some days I have to force myself to get out
there and talk to people. But I know when I feel like that it’s the adversary
tempting me and that means that something great is going to happen and he
doesn’t want it to. I hate how I have to consistently try to have charity, as
in the circumstance where I want to go out all day and serve and talk to
people. I just wish that desire was there. But where would be the learning in
that? It is hard to go out and be rejected all day, but when you do find that
one who will not only listen but who accepts it and wants to know more, then it
becomes worth it. But recently I’ve found joy in just bearing my testimony to
people. I’ve thought so many times ‘what more can I say that will help them
feel something and want to know more’, what am I not saying. It must just sound
like a nice fairy tale to have forever families. It’s interesting because we’ll
share that and ask them if they want it and they say yes. Then we ask them if
we can come back and share more and they say no. very contradicting. Ha I guess
they don’t know what they want. ;P
I am happy. I love sharing the gospel. My testimony has grown heaps.
As I share it each day I realize how much I not only believe but find
comfort in knowing. I never realized how much of a blessing it is to be brought
up in the gospel. The same church that Jesus Christ established when he was on
the earth is now on the earth again and I am a member of it. That is so
incredible!!! Who wouldn’t want to be a member of his church? Who wouldn’t want
the many blessings that are promised and seen? I love it, I love this gospel
with all my heart and find so much joy in being obedient to it and in doing the
best in life that I can to please my Heavenly Father.
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