Spiritually i don't think I have ever been better! I LOVE having the spirit with me and how happy it makes me feel! I LOVE seeing people change their lives to become better, That makes me the happiest. To see that the gospel change lives and give people fire to share it with others! I love the scriptures and the knowledge I get from them. I am so excited to take institute classes on them and actually enjoy it enough to stay the whole semester! haha.. I am just REALLY excited about the gospel right now and really sad that I have waisted alot of years doing nothing about it. But now I know and can do better.
I do love it here though. I love being a missionary and do realize the short amount of time i have left. A year ago from today I was probably in a class room thinking.. wow i have 18 months left.. that is forever long! but now I sit here and have to think wow.. i only have 6 months left.. i've gotta get going! (not that I haven't been this past year)
Aug.17, 2009
We have been seeing so many miracles lately. Brian Kamala is progressing and excited for his baptism on the 30th of August. He is letting his walls come down for us and now we see the real side of him. He is actually a funny guy! He still has some pride things that need to go away (like he wants a brand new baptism suit for his baptism and won't say otherwise.. but that's okay well break him down. :) We decided that you just shouldn't take anything he says seriously. So how do you know if he really IS serious? Well you just laugh at what he says and if he doesn't laugh in about 3 minutes then you should probably stop....... hahaha
Then there is Eunice.. She is from St. Kitts (also in the carribean) and is a huge miracle! We first called her to give her the bible she had ordered online, we called she said she didn't want missionaries and to send it. So we did.. She called us later and said she recieved the bible and was thankful and wanted to meet with us to see what we were all about. Sis. Urquijo mentioned we have the book of mormon and she got all excited and said "oh i have one at home that I love to read!" THEN the day we are to meet her she calls and says "do you have a pearl of great price?" and i'm thinking, how in the world did you hear about that? so we told her we did and she was very excited. so we met with her and she is just so prepared! She is 7th day Adventist so has a little problem with us worshipping on sunday, but she's working through that. We gave her all the pamphlets because she is staying with her daughter right now and is under her while in canada so she doesn't want to bring us over to jepordize that, AND her visa here in canada ends and if she can't extend she will have to leave this week... So we had the oppurtunity to see her again and she said that read all the pamphlets we gave her and was really excited about it all.. She is just so amazing. She loves the fact that she can know the history of our church. She says that whenever she asks someone in her church about it's history no one tells her.. I wanted to tell her right then that it was formed by a lady who USED to be a member of the church but was mad because she couldn't have the priesthood.. But i didn't think that was quite the approriate thing to say at the moment... :) She also got really happy when we told her to pray about everything and she said she has never been told to pray about her own church before.. so! she hopefully she stays and can have a place of her own so she can worship as she would like..
IT IS SO HOT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug. 10, 2009
Well we passed through another transfer call and the three of us (sis urquijo, and crapse and I) are staying together for another 6 weeks! Sister Urquijo and I have already been together for 4 and 1/2 months! But she's amazing so it's no problem at all! And sister crapse is probably the cutest girl full the most love i have ever met! She even gets sad that Satan will never get a body cuz he won't be able to hug anyone, also that he will never get to live with god again.. WHO do you know that has THAT kind of love? She's amazing, especially for this area.
Aug. 4, 2009
Well...... let me just tell you that MICHAEL GOT BAPTIZED!!!! I don't think I have ever seen a happier man in my whole life! We called him everyday last week just to make sure that darn adversary wasn't getting in his way, but I don't even think an army could have gotten in his way this week. He even called us Friday evening and said that he had a doctor's appointment on sunday that he forgot about but not to despair because he cancelled it. On sat. night I was talking to him on the phone and telling him about another investigator (mr. Kamala) who is also very hard headed like michael was and about his Doctrite in Theology and all, and michael told me " ya know, i didn't even show you all of MY certificates.. but ya know, NONE of those matter anymore.. because NOW it will all be done with right authority!" I was smiling so big I didn't even know what to do. I was just so happy. So then comes sunday.. he showed up an hour early for church.. "Sisters, do you really think this is the right thing to do?" "OF COURSE MICHAEL!!!" So he went and got a blessing from the elders who said it was a very spiritual experience. And then his baptism.. The minute he was baptized he got out of the water, slapped the water and shouted with glee! haha, he pretty much had to be pushed out of the water (i think he would have stayed in to swim around a bit to make it last a little longer) but as he was getting out we could hear him say "Hallelujah!" and "praise jesus!" in the bathroom.. also lots and lots of laughing.. it was so good. He just smiles all the time now. Positively the best day of my mission.. (well besides the other two as well :)
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