HE LIVES! A phrase that has brought a great deal of peace and spirit into my life this week. This is part of our unique message that we all share. Jesus Christ lives!!!!
Saturday and Sunday we were blessed to have Stake Conference. As a missionary meetings are things that we look forward to. We put them on our calenders in big capital letters and remind each other every time we see an other missionary. I especially love any meeting that has conference in the title. The spirit that is felt and used to teach is always incredible and I learn so much.
Our stake has been focusing on PMG. Our stake President challenged all of the members to read PMG by this meeting and a lot of them did. It has been so cool to not only hear what members have been learning, but to see it put into action. There was a young man that told of many opportunities that he has had over the past few months to be a missionary. The youth are amazing. My personal favorite part were the talks given on making your home a "Pre MTC"!
The MTC is POWERFUL. The spirit teaches you in everything you do because that is you focus. You are praying every 10 minutes (either because you are starting a class, lesson, or because you feel like you brain is going to explode). You are constantly talking about the gospel, reading and reciting scriptures, and best of all serving (even if it is just holding the door for someone.) Folks this is how to be happy. This is the most sure formula to do so.
We had been walking for about 1 1/2 hours and were heading back to our car. We felt like we should turn down one in particular street, not knowing if it would get us back to the street we needed to be on. There was a cute little park path thing that we decided to take (partially because it was shaded and 90 degrees out side.)
We were walking and stopped to talk to a woman who had to cute dogs. She was so sweet and as we got chatting she told us how her nephew, who she piratically raised, had married a mormon. She told us that she has been trying to learn more about what we believe so she can connect to them better. WIN! We then quickly, without sounding "desperate", explained to her that our purpose as missionaries is to go and teach people what we believe. Her face lit up! WIN! She gave us her name, number, and address and set up a time for us to come over.
The Lord's hand is in this work.
Sue. Man I say her name and just smile. We went into our lesson with her this week really worried because for some strange reason we both felt like she was going to drop us. Quite the opposite happened. We were talking to her and asked her if she believes the bom it true. "Yes" she said. We asked her about Joseph Smith and again she gave us a YES!!! What a relief. She told us how she had read the chapter that we gave her twice because she wanted to understand more and did each time she read it. Folks, The BOM is true! This was a huge testimony builder to me because all week I have been praying extra hard for Sue. I prayed specifically that she would receive answers to her prayers and recognize them. She did.
This is the Lords work. He is my best friend. When the waves seem like they are going to swallow you and you will drown. Remember this, your life guard walks on water. We all face storms in our lives, we need Christ on our ships so that when the storm reaches its high point He can calm our storm and lead us to safety. Each trail that we over come through Christ leaves us stronger and wiser. He is our teacher and friend and HE LIVES.
I know these things to be true. Study them and ask, and you will to.
Keep on keeping on!
Love you all,
Sister Kate Draney
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