MY OH MY, WHAT A WONDERFUL WEEK! We have just been blessed blessed blessed over and over again!! This week we found a bundle of new investigators and had a very good lesson with our little African family. We talked a lot about baptism and the importance of priesthood!! They said they were going to pray to know if God wanted them to be baptized twice since they were already baptized into another church. They said they will do whatever God tells them to do!! We are excited to meet with them again this week and see where things are headed!! We had exchanges this week! I got to go with Sister Hope over to the family ward in the area!! It was fun to be with her and see how she does things!! Us Idaho girls gotta stick together! :) They had tracted into a girl the day before named Christina and had an appointment with her the day I was there. We went to teach her. She is 19 and from Trinidad!! Everyone in her family is a different religion. She said when she was 14 living in Trinidad, her auntie was taking the lessons from some missionaries so she had seen the Book of Mormon and had been to church a couple of times. She was excited to have her own copy of the Book of Mormon and to read it. She said she never wanted to join any other religions because it wasn't what she wanted. She wants to do things for her!! We told her that's what it's all about!! To find out for herself if it's true. We talked about baptism and she said she knew she would get baptized, she just wasn't sure when yet! We have an appointment with her on Wednesday! We called her on Saturday and she had read the intro and the 1st three chapters of 1st Nephi!! So great.
Marson received the priesthood yesterday!!!!!! What a good day. He also got up and bore his testimony! He is so excited about missionary work and wants to share the gospel with everyone he comes in contact with!!
Eltouma convinced the sisters to allow her to give me a little surprise birthday party! Ha. So they sneakily made a way that we had to go over to her house on Saturday and she had a cake and candy and cupcakes and cookies and was just so excited and happy!!! I said “oh Eltouma, why?!” And she said, “well, you are my bestest friend in the whole wide world!!” Love that lady so much!!
I was reading in Alma chapter 38 this week in vs. 5 it talks about trusting in God to be delivered out of trials. It talks about how he tried other ways to find his relief, but it wasn't until he turned to Jesus Christ that he was healed. We turn to ways of the world to find relief and comfort for our trials...at times it can give us the temporary satisfaction we need, but when we turn to the Lord, we can be completely healed from all of our trials.
Oh I just LOVE the gospel!!!
I hope you all had a great week and I hope this week is even better! Be good. Remember who you are. Live it. Love it
Love,
Sister Smith
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