January 23, 2012

Sister's Day at the Mesa Temple

Donny can get baptised!

Hello Hello!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH :) love you and miss you SarBear!

 GREAT GREAT GREAT WEEK!  I absolutely love to write home each week because it is the only time that i get to really reflect and think about all the blessings that I have received this past week. Missionary life is go go go, and then when we're done with whatever, we just crash, so there literally is no time to reflect. so I am very grateful for p-days!

So this week on Wed we had Interviews with President Howes and that is always awesome. His focus topic was on Faith, Obedience, and Works! Then in my interview he talked with me alot about that, which was awesome, because it directly applied to one of our investigators this week. One of the people that we are teaching is waiting for the 100% Joseph Smith answer, which is to know that everything that we have been teaching him is 100% true. We are promised that if we pray with a sincere heart, with real intent having faith in Christ, THEN we can know that truth of all things (Moroni 10:3-5),  but how to we get from that faith to knowing? That is where DOING something comes in. we can't just pray pray pray, we have to do something as well. I can look at a yummy strawberry all I want and people can tell me about how good it tastes, and that it will be healthy for me,  but i wont ever KNOW until I eat it. the power of Faith, Obedience and works are completely connected! It would be too easy if they weren't. 

then on Thurs we had a SISTER DAY! it was awesome. so all the sisters were meeting at the temple at 12 noon, so we decided to go to eat at the temple - not use if you want to edit this before posting it- right before. so right when i was paying for my food I looked over and i saw TONI!!! Toni got baptized on now 29 and when I saw her, her hair was all wet from just doing baptisms for the first time! this was a miracle! We had no idea that we were all going to be there at the same time but the sight of seeing a recent convert in the temple was just about the best experience that I have ever had on my mission!!! Then i got to spend the rest of the day with all the sisters and sister Howes. Sister Howes made all the sisters t-shirts that say MANY ARE CALLED, FEW ARE ATM SISTERS!Love it!

wow lots more to say with not a lot of time to write.Brief- Annette got a letter back from the first Presidency this week that said that she is approved for baptism so another miracle from Heavenly Father!

Chastity got baptized on Sat and it was just great. She is the strongest 15 year old i know! So we had plans to teach her right after school on Friday and so we pulled up right when she got off the bus and she was crying. some to find out that her best friends saw that she had The Book of Mormon in the backpack and they all made fun of her. She bore her testimony to them but they didn't get it. she was very upset but we calmed her down and at the end of our lesson she was in tears again talking about how happy she is and that she knows that this is what Heavenly Fathers wants her to do. Heavenly Father LOVES us! he was the best for us. All he asks of us is the Keep His Commandments! We are all so very blessed with the knowledge that we have. How Great the Importance of letting people- all of our brothers and sisters- know about how they can be the happiest in this life! 2 Nephi 2:6-8

I love you all soooo much :)

Chastity's baptism

love sister martin