I can’t believe its Monday again! Time is flying by...
This week was so good! It started out with a HUGE MIRACLE. About a week and a half ago, we had a lesson with her where she told us that she so badly wants to be baptized but that she didn’t think she could quit smoking. Then, a couple days later, Sister Bench and Sister Sly went back (we were on exchanges) and M told them that right after she told us she couldn’t quit smoking, she got the biggest headache. She said that it was absolutely awful and she told God that if he took the headache away, she would quit smoking. And guess what- the headache left and she hasn’t smoked in a WEEK!!! God is so good.
Ya so that was on Tuesday and I was in Sedalia, MO on exchanges with Sister Pyne who was actually in my summer ward at BYU-small world! We weren’t really friends but we had seen each other around. We had a really good exchange!! She is so awesome.
Wednesday we had zone conference!! One of my favorite things was when President Hancock (in the mission presidency) was talking about obedience and how the laws of the gospel are principles with promise. He said that when we are obedient, we are are “offering” rocks up to God and he promises to bless us. He said “Don’t let the powers of heaven slip through your hands because of disobedience”. He related it to Ether 2 and 3 with the Brother of Jared. It was super good.
On Thursday we got a call early in the morning from a member that wanted us to come and help her vacuum her bed and flip it because it was a job too heavy for her to do. Welllll we get there and find out the real reason she wanted us to vacuum her bed...it is infested with bed bugs and she thought that just vacuuming them up would do the think. LOL NOPE. So once we realized she had them we told her that we couldn’t keep vacuuming because we visit too many people and can’t give them to anyone. But we still took precautionary measures and doused EVERYTHING in permethrin. It was a rough experience but definitely one for the mems haha
Our investigators are doing really well! O was supposed to be baptized this Saturday but with Stake conference this weekend and because of some other things, we are thinking that we may push her date back to the 25th. But she is doing great! She is keeping all of her commitments and is so excited to be baptized! She and her fiancé came to church on sunday and that was the first time we met him.
J is one of our investigators for the YSA and he is incredible!!!! Some other sister met him in a park in their area and cause he is YSA they sent him over to us about 3ish weeks ago. He has already read through the Book of Mormon 1 and a 1/4 times and he understands it really well and has been reading tons of conference talks on top of that. In Sacrament meeting, one of the people mentioned in their talk that they went out with the missionaries before they were baptized and he practically ran over to us to see if he could do that too! His life is pretty rough right now and he isn’t able to be baptized until July of 2018 but he is so solid and is doing so good. We watched Joseph Smith: the Prophet of the Restoration with him and one of my favorite things he said was (referencing John 3:16) “If the Almighty Creater, God, sent His only Begotten Son to Earth, because of His love for us...why wouldn’t He reach out with love again to His children, both in person and through heavenly messengers? Why not?” Good point J. Good point... I love when investigators teach me things.
It was a super good week and I love you all lotssss
(All of Erin's photos didn't come thru and the description didn't either. Maybe next week she will try again.)
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