This week was fantastic!!!! So many
miracles. We have been so blessed. But then again, this is the Lord's work, not
ours.
Our mission for the past couple of
months has had a standard of excellence. Part of this standard of excellence is
teaching 20 lessons per week and since I am in a leadership position for our
companionship some further standards are to teach 8 member present lessons
with 2 of those lessons in a member’s home. Sister Barrett and I have been
doing pretty good and most weeks we get somewhere between 18 and 22 lessons.
BUT this week we had 34......... IT WAS CRAZY!!!! We were also able to have 11
member present lesson and we had 4 of those lessons in a members home. We were
so blessed this week!! I am glad to be serving in such a fantastic ward with
members who are so willing to have us teach in their homes. With members who
care about who we are teaching and are so willing to come to lessons when we
ask them too. And not that numbers by any means determine our success- but to
think that each one of these numbers represent a person, a soul, someone who is
precious to the Lord. This truly is His work.
Last week, I told you about Sam, and
this week we started teaching his older sister, Sabrina! She is 21 years old
and was just sworn into the Navy. She went to Catholic college for 3 years and
has a strong roots in that faith. She is not sure that she wants to convert or
that she ever will, but she is looking for more peace in her life (little does
she know.... this is exactly what she will get ;) She came to church on Sunday
and she is reading the Book of Mormon now!! She says that even if she doesn't
convert, she has decided that these are truths that she wants to live that she
wants to be able to be a support for her Mom, her Aunt and her Grandma who are
all recent converts!
We had a lesson with Sabrina on
Saturday night at 8pm. She told us that she was on her way out the door after
to "hang out" with some friends, which from what she explained didn’t
sound like she would be in the best environment. We ended up having a fantastic
lesson on the Holy Ghost and how she can feel the influence of the Holy Ghost
right now in her life and after baptism she can have the Gift of the Holy Ghost
and that through the holy Ghost she can come to know whether or not these
truths that she is learning are true for herself. We left this lesson
excited about how well she received everything and how strong the spirit was
and thought that she would just be on her merry way to go "hang out".
We found out that after this lesson..... she decided NOT to go out!!! She told
us that it just didn’t feel right and that she just wanted to stay in
so she would be well rested for church on Sunday. Little does she know
that staying home that night is applying exactly what we taught and acting on
the influence of the Holy Ghost. The converting power of the gospel is so
strong and so true! I love it!!!!!
Here are some picture from my
adventures in Carmel!!!
We had dinner with R and C last night--Delicious Hatian food- mmmmmm
The Indiana Temple is coming along
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