This past week was amazing! We were able to see the Lord's hands in our lives and the lives of the people here so much! It’s amazing to look back on events that happen throughout the week and to be able to see how the Lord really does play a huge role in our lives. I know that the role he plays is even bigger than what we can even imagine or comprehend.
I love the scripture in Moses where it says, "this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Our Heavenly Father and Savior are all about helping us to have eternal life. Based on that truth, I know that they play a huge role in everything that I do.
We saw so many miracles this week and I'm so thankful for them! Thursday we had zone conference. The all-around theme of it was faith. We need to get back to the basics and faith is where it all begins. Faith is an abiding trust that we can do anything with the help of the Lord. Anything that he asks us can be done because of our faith. When we have faith we know that Christ is who He says He is and the He did what He said He did. Faith in Christ needs to be a foundation for our lives. I believe that faith is a principle of power. If we have faith we act and see miracles. Miracles don't bring faith, they come from faith. President Walker told us that as we gain for faith that we will be more bold and more powerful missionaries. My companions and I are all working to increase our faith. We also talked about how Christ isn't complicated. He makes things as easy and straight forward as possible. It's us who makes them complicated. So I'm now trying to uncomplicated things. I always love zone conference! It is so great to be able to talk about what we can do to become better missionaries.
Thursday night was the Terry's baptism! He is so amazing! He ended up being grateful that we pushed back his baptism because it ended up meaning more to him and he was more ready. It was so cool because we had 6 investigators come to the baptism and they were able to see it and it calmed their nerves. One investigator, Carol Linda, told us that she like it a lot because it just seemed like home. I like that, when we are following our Savior it just feels right. Afterwards Terry said that he couldn't ever imagine being any happier. I'm so proud of him! He's really changed so much. Yesterday we were talking to him about receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and he said that since he was confirmed in church yesterday he can now understand the scriptures. Before he couldn't but now he can. So cool! Also at Terry's baptism, a teenager from one of the wards brought his friend Matt. Sister Rodgriguez and I decided to show the Lord our faith and went up, introduced ourselves, and invited him to be baptized on July 3rd. He accepted! We hadn't taught him anything but the spirit was there and we decided that there was no better opportunity to invite him to come unto Christ. After setting the date we had a lesson with Matt, Nat (the one from Thailand), and their friend Paul. Paul and Nat bore powerful testimony of the reality of Christ and the importance of His Gospel. It was probably one of the most amazing lessons that I've ever been a part of. At one point Paul started crying and told Matt that the reason that he wanted him to be baptized was so that Matt could be happy. All of the boys and us were crying as Matt realized that this was the only true source of happiness. It is true. It was so cool to see Nat share his favorite scriptures and how he found out that the Gospel is true. I think that Thursday was probably one of the best days of my life.
Saturday Rainee was baptized and it was such a neat experience.
She has changed so much and really come to realize that happiness doesn't come from breaking the commandments but from following Christ. She is trying to find ways to draw closer to Christ and to help her family to do so as well. It was cool because Matt came to Rainee's baptism as well. They used to hang out with the same group and he told us that if she could change then so could he. On Saturday night one of the prominent families in town had a wedding reception. They invited us to come and it was just like our glory days back at the temple open house. It was so fun because I just walked around and talked to everyone for a little over an hour and got tons of referrals! I love referrals and am so excited to contact them and fill up our teaching pool. Even President and Sister Walker came to the reception. It was quite the party.
Yesterday I had a really neat experience. As I was praying I prayed that someone would come to church and ask us to teach them. Throughout the day I was on the lookout for this person and at the very last hour of church - hour number 8 - we found that person! A woman named Dorothy showed up at the church wanting to learn more. The members helped her into Relief Society and we found her sitting between two ward missionaries who were already sharing the Gospel! It was so neat! My prayers were answered! She doesn't quite live in our area so we don't know if we'll teach her or the elders, but it was still an answer to my prayer and a great miracle!
Well, as you can see it's been a great week! I love serving the Lord and so many miracles come showing Him our faith.
This week the Kirkwoods are getting baptized. Please pray that everything will go as planned with that. I love you all! The Church is definitely true!
Love, Sister Anderson
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