I can't believe I'm here writing
another email. The time is flying by! We found out that Sister Cooper
will be going to the city to shotgun an area. (They are taking the
Elders out and putting Sisters in. They are doing this to accommodate
the HUGE amount of sisters we have coming into the mission.) Sister
Cooper is nervous about her new assignment, but I know she will do
fantastic! She has grown so much in the last few months and I know
she will do amazing!
I will be staying another transfer
here. There are quite a few changes happening this week. Our district
is going from 4 sisters, 2 elders and a senior couple to 7 sisters, 4
elders and one senior couple. :D It is so exciting. The ward I'm
serving in is being split into a sister and an elder area, so we will
have two sets of missionaries in our ward! I'm SOOO excited! The
elders will be here on Wednesday so the past few days have been
pretty crazy. We are moving to a new house so the Elders can have
ours. We will be sharing our new house with Spanish sisters. Today
after I am done we are going to our new house to start moving things
in and getting everything ready for Wednesday.
We have zone p-day today so all the
Elders in the zone are going to come help us move everything into the
new house. The OSU sisters are helping too. I serve around some
pretty incredible missionaries!! Today I was thinking about a typical
19-23 year old young man or women. As I thought about it I realized
how different from the rest of the world the youth of the church are.
It was pretty incredible.
I was also thinking this morning about
how much Heavenly Father has increased my capacity to do things just
in the last 6 months. 6 months ago the task of training a new
missionary, being senior companion, preparing the ward for an
additional set of missionaries, and still carrying out the work of
the Lord in this area would have been a daunting task. I would have
been so nervous and stressed. I really haven't been feeling that way
over the last few weeks. I have been surprisingly calm. I know it is
because I am doing my best to rely on God for strength, not myself.
(2
Nephi 4:34) I realized how much Heavenly Father really has
increased my capacity to do all He needs me to do. It was very
humbling. I know I can only do these things with His help. I am also
grateful for companions. It is wonderful that we are here to do the
Lord's work together.
We had some great miracles happen the
other day. We went to our appointment but were a few minutes early.
We went to check on somebody Sister Cooper had met while she was on
splits with Sister Moulton. We ended up knocking on the wrong door.
We offered to pray with her and she readily accepted. After we prayed
she told us she was so thankful we came and she felt we were sent
from God. I told her about what had happened and her face lit up. :)
It was a great experience.
After that we went back to our
investigators house to wait for our member to show up. She was late
but while we were waiting we met a guy as he was taking his dog
outside. I pulled a card out of my backpack at random. It happened to
be a picture of Christ. I gave it to him and when he saw Christ he
said, "I need this!" We set up an appointment to see him
again Sunday. We went back yesterday and taught him about the
Book of Mormon and taught him how to pray. Before we left he
enthusiastically said, "This is too easy! I can do this! I can do
this!" He told us he was going to go back inside and start
reading. :D
Going back to Saturday, after we met
that young man we went to our lesson with our investigator. We taught
her the
Doctrine of Christ and invited her to be baptized in May. She sat
in silence for what seemed like forever, it was probably only about
30 seconds. She was really thinking about it.... and she said YES!
Miracle!! It was so wonderful!
Well, I love you all! I wish I could
write more, but there are people waiting to use the computers. Have a
great week! Talk to you soon!
Love, Sister Record
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