Holy Cow!
this week absolutely flew by. i can't believe it. It got to friday and i
felt like it was tuesday still. i don't know where it went. I couldn't
even believe it was Sunday yesterday. so weird. This week was just a
wonderful week to do the work of the
Lord.
it's interesting because i
go through cycles or patterns of life or work here. For a time i will
be completely okay and fine with talking with everyone i see and other
times i will get so nervous that i will come up with all the excuses in
the world of why not to talk to them. None of which are valid because we
are all children of God and need to live with him again someday to have
complete happiness and it's my responsibility to share that with them
right now. However, each time i come to understand the atonement a
little bit more and feel the power of it in my life. I know that if
christ did not suffer then there is no way we would be able to receive
answers to our prayers. We would be able to receive help and guidance,
or strength, support and comfort. all of those things come to us because
Christ suffered for us. He did not just suffer for our sins, but all of
our pain, sickness, temptations, sadness, mental disabilities,
insecurities, and
emotional problems as well. He understands every little or big thing
that we go through because he's felt it the exact same way. it's truly
humbling to know that the Savior did that for ME... for you...for
everyone. What a blessing, what a miracle. I am so grateful for the help
and strength that i receive each day as i ask for it through prayer in
the name of Christ. He is my Savior, he has become my best friend, i
love him. I know i couldn't do any of this without him because he keeps
me going. He helps me realized i can't give up on people because He
NEVER gave up on me. It's so humbling.
So we have been teaching
this family. Or the kids of the blair family. The mom is not interested
and does not believe in God but she doesn't mind that we come over to
teach the kids. So we planned for them to all come up to the VC and
their mom was going to bring them up. But she ended up being asleep, so
she couldn't. Malcolm the 13 yr old boy really wanted to come so we told
him that we would arrange a ride. His sisters Cassandra(17),
brittany(15) and alexandria(12) were going to come as well. so we
arranged for bishop to go and pick them up. Which in the meantime he
had received a prompting that morning that we were going to need him for
something so he texted us and asked us if we had visited one of our
investigators or if we were going to that day, and if not then he would.
But he still felt like something was missing, like he was being
prepared to be our ride. It was so neat. So when we called and asked
him, he was so keen to help
and do what the Lord asked. So when they came we found that only
malcolm had come, he said his sisters weren't feeling to well and didn't
want to come. We were so thrilled just to have him come though, even
though we were disappointed his sisters didn't come i believe it was
supposed to happen that way. We showed him around and talked to him
about if he had prayed to know if the book of mormon was true. He said
he did the night before but he didn't receive an answer. We asked him if
he felt anything while he was praying about it and he said "ya, i felt
like a spark of joy go throughout my whole body!" i just about jumped
for joy! He received a very specific answer to his question. He began to
get excited as well. We showed him around more and he was telling us
how much he like what he was learning and that he believed it and would
even be baptized. He didn't know what it meant to be baptized at that
point but i know he was so sincere. He said his mom
wouldn't let him and she thinks it's a dumb religion but he doesn't he
"thinks it's awesome'. It was so cool to see how sincere he was. i love
it. i was so happy that day!
Our investigators from
a few months back... Iri & vinnie. We have seen them around and
stayed friends with them after they told us they don't want to learn
more. However, we invited them to the Christmas lights and they came!
they actually loved it and said they wanted to come back, We were able
to catch up with them and they said that one of their goals this year is
to start coming to church regularly. Which is really cool because when
we were teaching them before they didn't see the need for organized
religion and to attend church. The Lord has been preparing them and
softening their hearts. I love it! So they came to the VC the other
night and we showed them around and showed them God's plan and the
temple and it was really neat. They are keen to learn more and they had
tons of questions. Which some of them were answered in the lesson we
taught them months ago, which goes to show that we didn't explain things
very well! ha but it's all
good, i hope we are better teachers now!!! ha
I am getting nervous for transfers this week but i know i will go where the Lord needs me. There is lots for me to learn! ha
Vicki,
has really grown to love us! You can tell she trusts us, however, i
believe she is still having a hard time trusting God. She just can't
ask!!! I wish she would because i know she would receive so much help
and blessings!!! Please pray for her, her dad just went to the hospital
for many problems. They are struggling. Her dad and her little girl both
have cancer. she is a single mom and her mind is like scrambled eggs
all of the time. I love her so much.
I will be sad to leave my area. i love my ward, it's become like a
homeward to me. i would absolutely feel comfortable living in this ward!
The people are so great and kind, it's wonderful.
Yesterday,
we got a taste of what full time proselyting will be like. sunday after
church we had a lunch/dinner around 3 and we were out the rest of the
night with no breaks! it was so much fun, it was pouring rain! We were
able to get 6 other lessons!! which is amazing because we barely get
over that for an entire week!
We taught an atheist last night, Shawn, who has become our new
investigator. I am looking forward to teaching him again. He was saying
his whole life he's just pushed it away with out trying to understand
but as we taught him last night he was so sincere and trying to
understand. He wants the happiness that we talk about and is willing to
try it out so he can have that happiness. He prayed at the end of the
lesson too! it was so cool. Pray for him as well. :)
The Lord is blessing us
with so many people to teach and although many are slow movers and
probably wont' be baptized for a while i have faith that they are in
good hands and will get there:)
Well i love you all heaps. REMEMBER to look for the blessings that God has given you. He truly is blessing you everyday!
many times people think that God isnt there because they have all of these problems and they aren't seeing the little ways he's blessing them. But remember that God is blessing you each day we just need to look for those blessings to see them and then we are grateful.
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