Hey Mommy!
It is so good to hear from you! I am so glad that you got Brays signed up for EFY. It will be such a life changing experience and he will love it so much. THe Spirit Prompted me to tell you that. Some of my greatest memories came from AFY! And I am so jealous that they get to go on that trek. I always wanted to go on one of those. That will be an amazing experience as well. I Love Brayson so much. I hope that he is doing alright. I love all of my siblings so much! Tell them all that I said hi and that I love them with all of my heart. i imagine that Gage is getting girl crazy haha that kid. I sent you and Em a birthday package last week and I was thinking about it as well. I can't believe that she is turning 10! So crazy. I am so sorry to hear about your health. That is definitely not good. I hope everything starts to heal up properly. And I have learned that most of the time, blessings are the best medicine haha.
Ah that's to bad that you missed ward conference! Come on mother;) haha just messin. People get comfortable with not going to church to make it simple. Or whatever it is. It becomes a habit and before you know it, Satan has them doubting if they ever even had a testimony. It breaks my heart but everyone has their agency. The only person we can control is ourselves and hopefully we make our examples a good one.
I can't believe that I got called a Zone Leader. I am the youngest one to be called in a very lone time which does put a lot of weight on ym shoulders but I am grateful for it. We are seriously so busy with everything. We never get in on time and we hardly ever get time to plan. I already feel exhausted haha but I love it. I don't have time to write in my journal at night so I have to do it while Elder Van wagoner is in the shower in the morning. It's just constant haha.
I am so glad that you are getting so much moisture. That is such a blessing!! I haven't gotten the letters yet so hopefully soon. Let me know when you get mine! And also I would like deodorant. They don't have normal stick deodorant over here. It's like spray stuff haha.
It has been a crazy week haha so much fun! It is still a little bit weird to think that I am in Oldham now and have left Stockport. I feel so blessed for the amazing miracles that we experienced in Stockport and am so excited for the wonderful miracles that are going to happen here!
As I sat in transfer meeting on Wednesday I was pondering my new responsibilities. I am so very grateful to the missionaries that went home this last transfer. They are amazing disciples of Christ and that taught me so much about how to serve and improve. I will forever be grateful. As we arrived in Oldham on Wednesday night and I looked at the board with all the missionaries in the Zone, I felt my heart swell with love. I felt my soul enlarge and my capacity to have love and charity increase. I have always heard leaders tell me how much they love me but I didn't understand the true meaning of what they meant until I experienced that small change for myself. And I know that there is still so much room in there haha I am so excited and grateful! So many amazing missionaries. I hope and pray that I can help and serve each one of them in some way.
Oldham is seriously amazing. I had the opportunity to meet quite a few of the members already through tea appointments, a ward activity, and church. I am already astounded about how much they encourage missionary work in this ward. There are quite a few members that are very willing to go out teaching with us and a lot of members report on missionary experiences that they have. I feel a great love in this ward. I wish I could truly explain in words the feelings that I have been having in the past couple of days but I can't phrase it.
Elder Van Wagoner is amazing. He grew up in Georgia but moved to Utah when he was 13. He went to Bingham High School. Wow he is such a great missionary and I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to serve with him. I have already learned so much from the way he does things and his example. He is a spiritual giant and I have complete faith that as we strengthen the faith of every member in this Zone and truly pray mightily, we will see great miracles. I also feel that we need to use the Book of Mormon more in these areas. Placing the Book as well as teaching with it.
The work has been going really well here. We have an investigator named Chris who has a desire to be baptised. We met with him yesterday and pushed his date to the 28th of March so hopefully he will exercise his agency righteously, that he will be ready to be baptised on that day.
We are also teaching this amazing couple named Sam and Paul. They have 2 adorable young kids and they are a very kind family. They have a desire to know if these things are true so we were able to speak with them this week about receiving an answer and how that will come. We also talked about Faith and how a lot of the time, God requires us to take a little bit of a step in the dark before the pathway can be clearly seen a little bit more. But as we continue to press forward, in faith, the path will continue to be lit. We also have some good part member families that we are working with and we have stayed extremely busy haha.
In my studies this week I was researching responsibilities along with the Grace of God and Jesus Christ. The more I learn about Grace, the more the Spirit rests upon my heart and soul. I know that sometimes I am required to do some things that I would not be able to perform with just my own abilities. The Grace of Jesus Christ has enabled me a countless number of times on my mission to do things that I on my own would not be able to do . And I will forever be grateful for that. I know and testify that His grace is sufficient for all. It covers all. I was reading in 2 Corinthians 12 when Paul talks about a 'Thorn in the flesh' We all have thorns in the flesh. Some more then others and some bigger then anothers, but we all have them. I love how Paul talks about how he glories in trials and distresses and discouragements so that, in turn, the grace of Christ can strengthen and uplift him. Be made manifest in him. We are given weaknesses that we can be risen up. I don't think that we always or at all realize how reliant we are upon the Savior and I hope and pray that someday and somehow I will be able to comprehend it. I know that our weaknesses and our 'thorns in the flesh' can be turned into strengths if we humble ourselves and rely upon the Lord and testify of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Have a great week mom
Love your son
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