I do not have much time this week to write so hopefully I
will be able to get some of the stuff in that transpired.
This last week has
been pretty dang amazing! At church on Sunday we had 35 people there and 9
women in Relief Society and 8 youth at church, 6 being from our branch.
We
have been working like crazy and Ramona, one of our investigators, has finally
been reading the Book of Moromon on her own and asking good questions!
We have
been able to go out with our Branch President quite a bit which has
been awesome. He sure is dedicated in helping us. He would be working in New
Hampshire or Massachusetts, get off, drive home and come to help us visit with investigators
and less actives.
The weather has been warming up here a bit which has been a
little weird, but good. We have been having good success coming our way and have
picked up some of our previous investigators that we had before and then fell off the
earth! It's ok because they are back!
Today for P-day we went bowling which
was fun. Next to us was a small family and there was a very young, little girl
who could hardly pick up the ball with both her hands so it was sure funny to
watch her bend over to put it on the ground and push it.... She was actually
doing pretty good and it was even more precious to see her do a little dance
when she knocked down the pens... lol.
This last week as we were meeting with a
part member family. The husband is a non-member and is an awesome guy who is
very committed already to the Lord and knows the Bible like the back of his
hand. Once he is able to give the truth a place in his heart I feel that
he will decide to be baptized and be a powerhouse.
This past Sunday morning I
had a rather important and beautiful experience as I was praying. In the Lord's
goodness and love He brought back to my mind an experience I had before my
mission. An experience that was very powerful for me and one that I haven't
thought about for a while. As a result, the Holy Ghost taught me and increased
my understanding of that experience and helped me to apply it to my life even
more. I have come to realize that so often in our lives we seem to
ask to have some sort of new remarkable experience without really giving
thought of one that we have already had; learning all we can from it. It seems
to me that the Lord has been teaching me lately the importance of REMEMBERING, something, that for me is very hard to do at times, but oh what marvelous things
we can learn from these experiences if we but just take time to remember them!
I have felt the power from remembering, and would like for those of you reading
this do as I have and to remember those experiences you have already had. There
is always something that you can learn more from them and you will find as I
have been that they will fill your soul with a new abundance of Spirit and
with the ability to remember all that the Lord has done for you in your life.
I
know that we have a loving Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ who love us
beyond measure. They have given us certain gifts, talents, abilities and
experiences for us to share with others and as we seek to remember these things
and do our best to learn from them, we will be strengthened in all areas of our
lives. We will have the peace of God even in the most trying of times. I leave
you all with this testimony and my love, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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