Hello wonderful FamilY!!
First of all I have a few requests:)
1. I need our Banana Bread recipe
2.
Ali- ya know the purple scripture case you made me for my small english
scriptures? Well, it has caught the eye of many peeps in this area,
especially my companion. Don't worry, I'm advertising for ya:) But,
any chance you can make one in yellow (just like mine-same size and all)
and send it to me? I want to buy it from you to gove to Hna Kohrman;)
And yes, I need to buy it from you, you can't just give it to me k? But
you'll have to tell me how much it is and I'll just send ya a check k?
K. Gracias.
We
are down to one investigator, JAcqueline. She is a sweety. She's about
45 or so and has 2 kids and is a devout Catholic. She lost her Mom and
her Dad within the last year as well as her baby several years ago. We
talked about the plan of Salvation and how her parents are in the Spirit
world now, and how she'll be able to see them and be with them again
after this life. It was a sweet lesson and the Spirit was strong. We've
only taught her once, and she bailed on us when went to pick her up for
church on Sunday, but we are meeting again with her tonight so we are
hoping to do a chapel tour and get rid of any fears or uncertainty that
she has about coming to church. Hopefully she'll feel the power of the
Spirit and accept our invitation t obe baptized!
This
week, this week. It has been a long one. It is hard to work SO
hard everyday and do everything you can, and then you get home and you
just can't see any results for all the hard work t hat you put in. That
is probably the most frustrating thing to me- not seeing results. I am a
very visual person- I like to make things, clean, things, do projects,
and then when I'm done I just like to step back and enjoy the fruits of
my labor...the Lord is really testing me on that one. I KNOW there are
people her that have been prepared and that are ready for the Gospel,
but we just can't seem to find 'em yet. Hna Kohrman and I fasted this
last Sunday to be able to understand what the Lord wants us to do in
this area- and we both feel very strongly that we need to work through
the members to find people to teach. So- that has been our goal. Last
night we had prepared this AWESOME dinner message with one of our active
families. SEriously, it was sweet and we were both pumped to share it.
THey are a great family and we have a pretty good relationship with
them. ANd we got there, we ate, and we started sharing the message and
man oh man- they shot down EVERYTHING we said! We had a scripture, a
quote from Elder BAllard about member missionary work, and a commitment
to pray sincerely to the Lord to find someone they could share the
gospel with and have a name by a certain date. Excuses, excuses,
excuses about how they can't do it because they work and on and on and
on. Needless to say it was very frustrating. So here is the question:
What would could the missionaries do to motivate YOU to do missionary
work? Let me know in you r next letters k?
Sweet
experience this week. Our zone put together this musical fireside that
was called "Follow Thou Me". All missionoaries played a role and were
to invite eVERYONE. Members, non-members, investigators, friends,
contacts, everyone. It was all about the life of the Savior and His
invitation for us to follow him. We had narration, clips of the new
Bible videos on lds.org and
then a song after each of the sections of HIs life. I was SUPER
nervous about it becuase they asked me to sing "I stand All amazed" and
then they turned the song (which was written to be a solo) into a
quartet with some other sister missionaries. Normally, I prefer to sing
in a grouprather than a solo-but I was very hesitant in this instance.
Ya know how some voices just clash when they mix? Well that was pretty
much the case here. Every practice that we did was horrible. But then,
as we were sitting waiting for our turn to sing in the fireside, we were
watchign the clip of Christ's crucifiction and His suffering in the
garden. As we were watchign that, the Spirit just filled me up. It
didn't matter what we were going to sound like, becuase the words of the
song that mattered. CHrist suffered everything for us. This event was
the most important thing that ever happened! And we were about to
declare that to the world. And we did. I have no idea how we sounded-
but I know exactly how we all felt, and I know how the audience felt. IT
was a SWEET experience. Man- we are so blessed. SO BLESSED! THe Savior
died for YOU. Specifically for you. So that You can return again to
live with God. How can we not do what He asks of us when He has given
us everythign? Oh I how am forever grateful to my Savior. I can never
repay Him for the great gift He has given me. I know with all my heart
that He lives. HE lives!! My heart just overflows with love at the
thought of Him and all He has done for me!
OUt
of time yet again...but I love you all ! Thanks for being so supportive
in all that I do, you are all such great examples of love and light and
I couldn't ask for better family and friends!
-HErmana Whicker
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