Dear family and friends,
It was such a good week!!!!! If I could, I would live and relive this week over and over again. That surprises me because I was not really looking forward to this week when it started. I didn't think it was going to be a very good one but God showed me otherwise. :)
On Monday, Sister Hatch and I had a water balloon fight while we hand washed our car. It has been getting super hot and we can't go swimming so we had a water balloon fight instead. It was a lot of fun. It wasn't so much a fight but it was just taking turns throwing water balloons at each other hahah but it was still fun and it cooled us down a bit.
On Tuesday, we had interviews along with our Zone Meeting. It is always good and interviews are always good as well. We had dinner with the Scoggins. Thaiwanna, one of our investigators was there and we were able to talk about Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. We are going to have to change something with her because she thinks we are not trying to convert her but just teach her about the gospel. In reality, we are trying to teach her and let the Spirit do the converting but we would like to evenutally see her go to the temple. That's the goal. We are going to have to be a little bit more bold with her.
Wednesday thru Friday, we went on exchanges! So on Wednesday, I got to go up to Miami!!!! It was so weird going back because I didn't think I would go back there until I was going back to visit after my mission. But it was really good to go up there. I was with Sister Lawrence and we had a pretty good day. We were able to find a new investigator! The work up there is going so well! They have a baptism this Saturday which is really awesome!
Thursday I came back to Muskogee and I was with our Sister Training Leader - Sister Meredith. We also had a really good day!! We had a lesson with a girl named Ashley. Sister Hatch and Sister Meredith started teaching her on Wednesday. She is so prepared for baptism! She is like quoting scripture all around. She is a friend of one of the less actives that we are working with. She is 15 and like I said, is so ready for baptism! She has a baptism date of July 6th. She wasn't able to come church on Sunday, which is a bummer, but she says she is going to come next week!! :)
On Friday, Sister Hatch came back to Muskogee! It was good to reunite with her. It's weird being away from your companion for a time.We had a lesson with David and he says that he will come to church on the 30th because we are speaking in Sacrament Meeting. He is worried about his family. They don;'t really want anything to do with the church so he doesn't want to just tell them one day that he is going to the Mormon church. But, he can tell them that he is going to go because we are speaking. Hoepfully this will get him to feel the Spirit that is at our church. We are still working on the whole priesthood thing with him. We are trying to get a priesthood holder to come to a lesson with us. So hopefully that will happen this week. :)
On Saturday, Winnter had her baptism interview! Elder Unsicker, the Elder doing the interview, said she did well and that she knows her stuff. I was super glad to hear that. She is 9 and has some memory problems so I'm glad that she was able to show that she has a testimony of the church and she knows why she is getting baptized.
On Sunday, right after church, we had a lesson with Malachi. They started teaching him on Wednesday. I might have mentioned him before, but he is 12 and wants to be baptized! We gave him the baptism date of July 13th so hopefully I'm here for that! :) Sister Parkes thinks we are both going to stay, so we'll see. Malachi was able to go to scout camp this week. They had it in Arkansas. His sister, Chyna, is going to come out with us on Tuesday. She just turned 16 so now she can come on splits with us. :)
Overall, this week we were able to have more lessons than I've ever had in a week! We have made the goal to keep increasing in lessons! It is possible and we have the will to do it, so there is a way, with the Lord's help, we can do anything!
I'm so grateful for my Savior. I was not excited for exchanges this week but I prayed that I would be humble and teachable and have a good attitude through the whole thing and I did! I was able to learn so much! Sister Meredith also helped me get over some things that I've gone through on my mission. She helped me apply the atonement more to my life and to the experience that I went through. It was the most spiritual experience I've had in my whole life. I've never felt closer to my Savior.
I'm also so glad that I chose to go on a mission. I've grown so much and I've learned a lot about myself.
Thanks so much for your continued support! I love you all!!
See you soon then!
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