Hi family!!! (: well this week I will official have 9 months in the mission..... How did that happen SO FAST! I feel like i just got here but at the same time i feel like I have been here forever. I love being a missionary with all my heart. It is the hardest thing I have ever done but it is the best thing i have ever done.
Well last week we had a meeting with our Sister Training leaders and they told us that some of our metas of excelence were changing.... out numbers haven't been to good the past few weeks so we were a little bit taken back when they said the norms would be increasing. But we usually find 10 new investagators a week but now it is 15. So we were trying really hard do find people this week... We were working on tuesday and all our plans fell through so My companion said remember that one lady we talked to that lived by our house lets visit her. So we did and we found her family that has about 10 people in it. It was awesome! Then on saturday we had visited everyone but one person in our plans and no one was home. So we went to look for this lady. We walked up to this house and I said do you know a Myra she said oh that's me. But it wasn't the same lady we had talked to . She invited us in and we met her family too with was 4 people. Then we remembered someone else we had talked to and we found 2 more and then another we found 1. We found 14 new people to teach this week and every single one of them accepted a batismal date. The Lord is seriously preparing his children here to recieve the gospel and we are just the tools in his hands to help them find the truth.
Yesterday I was reading a few confrence talks from the October General Confrence. I was laying on my bed reading for about 4 hours yesterday while my companion wrote some letters and stuff. But when I was finished reading the Priesthood session I just had the most overwhelming feeling that I am exactly where my Heavenly Father wants me to be. That this is his work. That the church is true! I love the gospel with all my heart. Reading those talks really made me just realize how important the gospel really is. When I think about the person that I was 9 months ago and the person I am now i feel like I don't remember that person or want to be her every again. I have changed but for the good. I have realized what is truly important in my life and I know that there is nothing more important than the gospel of Jesus Christ. That nothing else could ever be as important as sharing the gospel with someone. It says in Preach My Gospel that we are not here just to baptize people or to increase the number of members in the church or to help people have a better life or be happier but we are here to help them enter the Kingdom of God. No one else can do that. This is the only church that has the authority to baptize people and they can enter the kingdom of God. I think sometimes we don't realize how important these things are. That sometimes we think well i have shared the gospel with everyone I know or my friends already told me they wont accept the missionaries or something like that but really there is no excuse for not sharing the gospel. The lord put us here to share the gospel and when we have to stand before him He will ask us what we did with the time and the knowledge he gave us of these things. I don't know about you but I want to be able to tell him that I shared the Gospel with everyone I knew. That everyone had the choice to accpet or regect the Gospel that I shared with them. I just know that the church is true with my whole heart. I have always had a testimony but my mission has taught me that really it the most important thing you can do is share the gospel. So hopefully you can think of someone to share the gospel with or something. (:Well last week we had a meeting with our Sister Training leaders and they told us that some of our metas of excelence were changing.... out numbers haven't been to good the past few weeks so we were a little bit taken back when they said the norms would be increasing. But we usually find 10 new investagators a week but now it is 15. So we were trying really hard do find people this week... We were working on tuesday and all our plans fell through so My companion said remember that one lady we talked to that lived by our house lets visit her. So we did and we found her family that has about 10 people in it. It was awesome! Then on saturday we had visited everyone but one person in our plans and no one was home. So we went to look for this lady. We walked up to this house and I said do you know a Myra she said oh that's me. But it wasn't the same lady we had talked to . She invited us in and we met her family too with was 4 people. Then we remembered someone else we had talked to and we found 2 more and then another we found 1. We found 14 new people to teach this week and every single one of them accepted a batismal date. The Lord is seriously preparing his children here to recieve the gospel and we are just the tools in his hands to help them find the truth.
I love you guys! I hope you all have a great week!
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