Hello my faithful fans.
How goes it?
It has been a great week
here in Oregon. And...The sun is out! It
is so nice to see the sun. I missed that
guy.
I feel like the last few
weeks I have had big news of some sort but his week was a good, but pretty
normal week. We had a great lesson with
Yoselin this week. We have invited her to pray specifically and she is now
feeling that is receiving more specific answers. We had to change her date to the middle of
February but she is focusing this week to ask for Sundays off at work so that
she can come to church more often.
Chayo and her family
have officially moved. Their records have all been moved so the missionaries
can visit them there :)
We had 3 investigators
at church. It was funny though because it was 3 people we haven't been focusing
a lot on. Guess that was an answer to
prayers that we need to start focusing on them more! We also had a quite a bit of less active
members come so that was great. Hermana
Cinta that hasn't come to church in a few years came! Lots of miracles.
Wednesday we had our Worldwide
training. It was so cool to think all
the missionaries in the world were doing the same thing at that time. The focus was to teach repentance and baptize
converts. A lot of times as missionaries
we are so focused on baptisms but it is so important that we really help the
person become truly converted to the gospel.
Elder Bednar gave a
training on the role of the Holy Ghost. I
am so grateful for how much we have to be in tune with the Holy Ghost as normal
members but especially as missionaries. I am so grateful for the promptings that I
receive every day. Whether it is to talk
to someone, testify of something, or change certain plans, the Holy Ghost helps
this work keep moving!
We went on two exchanges
this week. Both of them I was with sisters that will return home in a week. One sister is not so focused on the work and
is ready to go home and the other is more diligent than ever and was totally
focusing on the work. It really helped
me understand how important it is that we endure to the end. Doesn't matter if it’s the real world or the
mission we can't just sit back and relax. Something I heard at the beginning of my
mission is if you can't endure to the end on a mission how are you going to
endure to the real end? That has really
stuck with me to work harder every day.
We have transfer calls
coming up this Saturday. I have been in McMinnville for 5 months. I really have no idea what’s going to happen. I would love to stay here but who knows.
Well my family, how well
do you feel like you follow the promptings of the Spirit? When you get a
prompting to testify of the Church do you do it? Do you follow that prompting that tells you to
help someone out? I invite you to do it!
Listen to whatever prompting you may
receive. And if you don't know if it’s a
prompting or yourself, do it anyway! If
it is something to help someone come closer to Christ, the Lord will bless you
for following that prompting.
I love you all so so
much. Have a great week!
Hermana Gifford