The past couple days (since Thursday)
Well...
As you all know We got to go to the temple this week! It was so great!
Just to feel the spirit and the spirit of all the people there. That was
great! It was also a very raining week and we were on bikes of course..
but what are you gonna do. The Lords work must go forth.
And yesterday I ate lunch with this family who is from Waianae
(super cool) And my cousin was their bishop when they lived there! So
they made me a musubi, and my companion had her first musubi! She loved
it. And then they gave me Li hing mui. I was so excited! They gave us
some to go, and we had to walk a little bit to our bikes, so we were
eating the musubi while we were walking and people were looking at us
weird, first of all we were eating and walking, second we were eating
spam and third we were eating nori. I guess that weird here in Utah.
The Work
Sometimes the work this week
was discouraging, then I always remember this talk that was given to us.
It said something like when we are feeling discouraged, the feelings of
faith aren't able to shine through. So I always have to have faith in
the Lord and faith in His timing.
With that, we have a baptism
on Saturday!
We are so excited! And our other investigators are still progressing,
they have such wonderful spirits and we will keep teaching them. All
this talk of missionary work is really getting people excited and we are
getting so many referrals that we don't even know where to start. Now
we just need their hearts to be softened and to accept the gospel. I am
so grateful for all the people that I meet everyday, even the ones who
aren't very nice to us. This week we went out on visits with one of our
ward mission leaders (he totally looks like Santa Claus, he even calls
himself that) Brother Christensen went and picked a whole bunch of
apples and pears and we went to nonmember and less active member homes
and shared fruit with them. There was no catch we were just sharing
fruit so that they could know who we were, and who knows maybe this
experience will soften their hearts and they'll always remember the
Sister Missionaries that came and got to know them.
The Word
We've all probably been receiving the same lessons in
Sunday
school and relief society about missionary work. And it's definitely in
the air! We are having an area seventy come and do a fireside about
Hastening the Work. And our mission leaders are so exciting and their
always asking us if we are teaching in their ward, and most of the time
we have to say no, and then that week they try hard to find us someone
to teach.
I heard this really good quote by President Thomas S. Monson,
"Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking, He expects
our action, He expects our labors, He expects our Testimonies, He
expects our Devotion." It seems that the Lord expects a lot of us, but
we expect the Savior to save us and to bless us and help us through our
trials. So the Lord should expect this much from us and we should do the
things which He expects. Its hard, but the blessings that come are so
great! And we are going to stumble and sometimes we won't be able to do
everything that He expects, but that is why we keep trying everyday!
I love you all! Thank you for your prayers, your support, your testimonies and for doing your own missionary work!
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