Mon. May 16, 2011

  Sister White, Ashley, Sister Martin

            

Ashley's baptism

my zone laser tag

Hello out there!
its P-day so sister white and i decided to clean the apt. It was my turn to clean the kitchen so i did the dishes and then began to sweep. While sweeping i saw that i was sweeping up some rice, which was really weird since neither of us have ever cooked rice. I got down to look at it and IT WAS DEF NOT RICE!!! EEEKKKK omg i get the chills from just thinking about it. the "rice" was def bugs. i dont know what kind but they were about 1/2 inch long and they look like worms. so its 6:30 am and sister white and i are full on screaming because we not only found them in the kitchen but along the sides of the walls in the carpet. they were everywhere!! Why haven't we seen them before? so we hurried and vacuumed all of them up.  the office where we live isn't open until later so we are going there right after emails. SICK! they better get rid of them or else there is no way im going to be able to sleep. i am scared to death to walk on the carpet barefoot now.

 besides that, this week was AWESOME! Saturday Ashley got baptized.  omg it was truly amazing and then on sunday she got confirmed with the Holy Ghost. she is so cute and is so happy. Baptisms are the best ever and hopefully Joe and Rocio will get batized on the 28th. Dani was supposed to be baptized on the 21st but she just canceled because her parents are not supportive at all. its sad becuase she is so ready and she is just striving to have a better life and to do whats right and her family told her that they would be very disappointed in her if she were baptized. this is sad but im not worried because i know that someday she will be baptized, just not now. sunday night was the mission president's fireside that they have every 3rd week of the month. To go you must have an investigator with you so we brought joe, rocio, and their 2 daughters. the fireside starts off with two new investigators who tell their conversion stories and then they bare their testimonies. this is so awesome to hear and i know that both of the stories really touched joe and rocio. then someone from the mission presidency talks and then there is a musical number. this weeks musical number was given by all the missionaries and we sang the EFY melody. when i sang this at EFY i bawled then and nothing has changed. there were about 14ish sisters and prob 40ish elders there and hearing all those young, worthy elders sing just made me loose it. we are all children of our loving heavenly father and i love him! it was just an amazing night.

the amount of blessings that i receive each day are just too numerous to count! we got 6 new investigators this week, one of them being Gerard! omg i love this man so much. He is so awesome. We met him while we were trying to contact one of our other new investigators across the hall. We met him 2 weeks ago but he was out of town so we just met up with him to teach him this week. he is catholic and he just wanted to hear about our church but not to join. we talked to him about the restoration of the gospel and after all of that he was quiet for a bit and then he said it wasn't a coincidence that we met! he knows that we were meant to meet and that he felt like this was right. since my parents passed down the sweet emotional genes to me, i OF COURSE,  started tearing up. the spirit was so strong and he has the most amazing faith. He loved the fact that children aren't baptized as babies and said that he always knew that was how it was supposed to be! we as LDS know that Jesus Christ came to to "call not the righteous but the sinners to repentance."

I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon and all the modern revelation that we have in the Doctrine and Covenants and through the prophets today. we are ALL so blessed! The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church here on the earth, thanks to the priesthood. everything about missionary work is the best ever.  i challenge all of you at home to do missionary work as well! "If you have desire you are called to the work"

I love you all so much
Love sister Martin