HELLO FAMILY!
Welp once upon a time I live in Texas. And Texas is currently in a drought.
And so everyone prays for rain and God hears and answers prayers so mid week it
down poured. And since I live in Texas they don't believe in drainage systems.
So it all pools in the middle of the streets and becomes rivers. Never ending
adventure around here for sure! But I was excited to pull out my colder clothes
and wear my boots and today I am wearing a cardigan. It is cooler and nice in
the mornings- but the sun is out today so I will probably have to ditch the
cardi later today.
So Zone Conference is this Wednesday and it is going to be in Midland, and
I'm excited because it will be about half the mission! We never get the whole
mission together here because the land mass and travel is too large, so this
will be fun! There will be a lot of sisters there I don't know so I am excited
to put names with faces. Also Elder William R. Walker will be
there. So no I haven't talked to President yet, and each day it changes
but today I feel like I want to stay till January. I still don't have a firm
feeling on what I should do, but we also have never confirmed anything with
President so who knows. I currently feel like my old life is a dream, and right
now I am busy doing the missionary work I need to do so sorry nothing finalized
yet.
Also MOST EXCITING THING EVER!! This is a clip from President Augustin's
email!!!
"And if this isn't enough great news, we announce the
blessing of attending the temple. For two years we have tried every which-way
to have our missionaries blessed with at least one temple session here at the
Lubbock Temple while they serve. But because of the temple's inability to host
such a large number, distances, housing, weather, and mission president's being
reminded missionaries are here to serve as missionaries, preaching and
teaching, we have never been able to offer this. But after much, much
discussion and planning, we think we have finally arrived at a workable method
of permitting you to attend the temple at least once during your service here.
This will be an added blessing to attend the House of the Lord and be part of a
new, recently released film version of the endowment. It is also a blessing to
be able to come and be reminded of the sacred covenants each of us has made to
our Heavenly Father. We believe the work will increase even more after you have
revisited the sacred instruction of a House of the Lord. We will have to work
out exact times, days, due to weather, temple availability, etc. so have faith
and lots of patience. This is a blessing!"
We had the whole C family at church yesterday! That is our recent
convert T and his wife L (who has troubles getting Sunday's off) and her
daughter R. Then also A their friend came with them. All three of those
have baptismal dates set! T has the fire of conversion burning and is helping
others come closer to Christ!
Most amazing story this week: In our ward is a part member family. They are
a senior couple and we had been working with her with her neighbors. She had
told us upfront about her husband and so I thought that was a closed case- but
then after a few weeks something she said struck me and I asked her if we could
talk to him about the gospel and she said that we can try... So finally we were
able to set up a time for us to go to their home! And can I just say how nervous
I was for this appointment. I want him to understand the importance of the
truths we teach so SO BADLY! I want it for him and I want it for his family! We
prayed so so hard and I know that it was all because of that effort that the
lesson went well. M confessed things to us about the church that surprised his
wife. That he doesn't know how to recognize the Spirit and that in his 79 years
of living he doesn't think he has ever received an answer from God. He was not
really open, but not disagreeable which is a huge difference and we were able to
convince him to try again. To try and read and pray this time, and allow us to
help him!! And so far so good!! We have been leaving him sticky notes with
reading assignments on his front door because when I asked if we could call him
to check up on his reading he told me he wouldn't answer the phone :) haha and I
guess when we left the first one (on the door not the one we left the night of
our appointment) he mentioned to his wife that he had already read this very
first assignment!!!! We have another appointment tomorrow with him and I am
hoping so hard! His wife started crying at church yesterday when I talked to her
and she said she is afraid to hope- so I told her not to hope that I would do
all the hoping for her! :)
That was all on our crazy day Tuesday where we had 6 set appointments that
all went through and district meeting in the morning! I love this area and
wouldn't mind one bit if I stay till the end!
Love you! xoxo
attached is a picture of a cake we made L for her birthday! We made it
during lunch and dinner breaks. It is two cakes carved into a butterfly and
such! Someday I'm gonna make a good wife! haha
No comments:
Post a Comment