Oh hello there family dear!
Well, this week was amazing! There was one day that the temperature said 87 degrees.....it was a miracle and I LOVED it :D haha. Lots of cool things happened this week!!!!!
First of all, I have never worked harder to get people to come to church in my whole mission as I did this past week. We had fellowship to help everyone to come and we had 12 people firmly comitted to come. We were soooooo excited for sSnday! Sunday morning we went by everyone again to make sure they were up and getting ready, and they all said that they would be there. And guess how many came. I will tell ya, it starts with a z and ends with a ero. 0!!!!!! Agency is my least favorite thing, :D C and J (had the date to be baptized of the 24th and were going to get married but didn't) were supposed to have been there with their whole family...but didn't come. The G family (don't really think I have told you too much about them...) but they were supposed to come and didn't. J2 and A wre supposed to have come (J2 doesn't really want to anymore) but they didn't, and the list goes on and on. The A family has met with missionaries 126 times and we still have to beg them to read and come to church and pray and they still dont. So any way....long story short....we are dropping basically everyone. Everyone but M (the cool referral we got with family in Mesa), A, A2, a lady named S that is a friend of a member, and 12 year old V (the elders are teaching her family, but she wanted us to teach her). I have been in this area for a month and no one is making progress towards anything, especially baptism. Time for us to stop wasting the Lord's precious time and find people that are willing to act. So this week we are going to work with members and finding like crazy. We will just put our faith and trust in the Lord and have patience and hope and we will find those people that the Lord wants us to find:D I am excited, I always like challenges :D
Well last night we went to the visitor center with a lady A2 that we are teaching and her sister Hermana O and a less active member E (he is one of my favorites!....so stubborn, but still, a favorite, haha) It was awesome. We watched the Joseph Smith movie and listened to the Christus statue and walked around the temple. It was SOOOOOOO amazing. The spirit was super strong and I am sooooo grateful for the testimony that I have of the prophet Joseph Smith, it is impossible to deny spiritual experiences like that. It is all sooo true.
Also this week, we had interviews and a temple trip as a mission. It was AMAZING!!!!!!!! Family GOOOOOOOO to the temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, another cool story to share. So, in those notes that you sent me Cristy dear, some thing that Sheri Dew said jumped out at me. Something to the effect of 'pray to know how God feels about you.' Well, let me tell you, if you pray about that you will get your answer. That whole day we saw miracle after miracle and it was the most beautiful sunset ever that evening, and there is this song that is on a CD for youth, called Shine, and the song is called, He Loves Me (it made my day). Well, if you can find it somehow you have to listen to it. It is so true, God just loves us so much and he sustains you and me in everything we do.
The only other thing going on this week is a cold. Dang things. Had a sore throat and a fever up the wazoo (how do you even spell that, haha?), Thankfully it didn't keep me inside, Heavenly father is more poweful than some dumb cold, haha. Now I just have that crazy cough that lasts forever. haha, but it is getting better too.
Well family dear, love you all dearly!! Take care and I love and miss you and am always praying for ya.
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