Great Week! updates on everyone..
.Paco and Jaquelin are doing good but their non- wedding plans are making it hard for them to progress in the gospel. They know its true and they KNOW the doctrine but they must now be UNDERSTANDING it because if they did, then it would change their heart. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about changing and sacrificing in order to come closer to our Savior Jesus Christ.
Phoenix is at a standstill because of his parent's non desire to learn, which make it hard for an 8 year old to want to continue to learn and go to church when he knows his parents are at home swimming and such while he is at church... pretty sad situation
On a more positive note, we got a new investigator this week :) Emily is a 14 year old who has been coming to Mutual for a long time and has even been to girls camp twice, and now her parents have finally given her permission to learn! it's so cool to see what just a simple invitation to Mutual can turn into. Those simple activities are so much fun and the spirit is there too, so its hard to not enjoy yourself.
Ginny and Kevin are AWESOME! They are progressing very well - they aren't on date yet, we just extended and baptismal date. They have only been to church once and that was on Easter, and so on Thursday they committed to come to church. I swear right when they agreed, the adversary was right there. Something random happened to both of them causing them to have to REALLY change their plans in order for them to be able to make it to church. Thankfully, they recognized it was the adversary causing all of these problems, so they hung on strong and told us on Sat. that they still would be there on Sunday. Kevin told us some concerns that he had with Temples but we were in a mad rush and pretty much left it up to his fellowship family to answer his questions, which was pretty scary. Then on Sunday, both of the adult talks in Sacrament meeting were on temples -which could've been scary too, but their talks were the BEST I've ever heard about the temple! Seriously, it was awesome, and then after that, Gospel Principles was all about sacrifice and they BOTH commented in class. They are just truly amazing and I love them so much. Satan knew how amazing church was going to be and how it would be exactly what they would need, so he tried his very hardest to get them to not come, but it didn't work!
favorite scripture of the week 3 Nephi 5:13
love you all to pieces
Sister Martin
Friday, August 24, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
July 23, 2012
PRICE AND I ARE STAYING TOGETHER!!!
You have no idea how relieved I am! She will be my 2nd - 6 month companion and I feel so blessed to have had the best companions ever! Just from who my companions are I know that this is the Lord's work! From each of my companions I have learned specific things that have helped me see things that I need to change in myself. I am just jumping for joy that Sister Price and I are going to be together for my last transfer because there is so much to be done and I'm just so grateful for her because we work so well together. This last week we had 18 Teaching Opportunities, which is HUGE for our area and is our all time high for the 4 1/2 months that we have been together, and now we will just continue on and see even more miracles!
RJ got baptized this week and it really was an awesome experience! Once again, there was some definite opposition coming against him in preparation for the baptism, but thankfully, he recognized it as just that. Afterwards, he told us of the peace that overwhelmed him once he was baptized and then soon after he received the gift of the Holy Ghost :) What a blessing it is to have God's Authority here on the earth.
In my personal study this morning I came across this verse in Alma 13: 7 :
"This high priesthood being after the order of his Son, which order was from the foundation of the world; or in other words, being without beginning of days or end of years, being prepared from eternity to all eternity, according to his foreknowledge of all things—"
God's Authority is without beginning of end, from all eternity to eternity.... What a blessing!
We had a pretty cool experience on Sat after the baptism too. We have been trying to get in contact with this less active member of the church and so Sat. afternoon we stopped by and she miraculously was home! So she let us in and her nonmember friend, named Matt, just happened to be there too. We starting chatting and came to figure out that Matt is very interested in the church and said he would love to learn more from us! He had to run to do something so was just about to leave when a big Haboob struck - which just means a big wind storm-! Tons of trees blew over and outside was orange because all the dust from the Arizona dessert was being blown around, Sooo Matt couldn't leave. We taught him about the Restoration and really emphasized the importance of the priesthood that has been restored to the earth through a modern- day prophet. He listened so intently and just said " That makes sense!" Weirdly enough, he has always lived in AZ but has never had any LDS friends until Kim (the LA lady) and now he interested! SUPER COOL! We will teach him and Kim this Sat :)
Ginni and Kevin are AMAZING! We extended the date of Aug 11 for them to get baptized but they said they couldn't say yes yet, but that they are preparing to be baptized. Then they continued to ask about after baptism. I LOVE this area and miracles are literally happening everyday!
I LOVE being a missionary and I LOVE this gospel!!!!
Another cool scripture that is pretty much my motto is in Romans 1:16
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth..."
I love you all soo much! Go and share the good news of the gospel
Love,
Sister Martin
You have no idea how relieved I am! She will be my 2nd - 6 month companion and I feel so blessed to have had the best companions ever! Just from who my companions are I know that this is the Lord's work! From each of my companions I have learned specific things that have helped me see things that I need to change in myself. I am just jumping for joy that Sister Price and I are going to be together for my last transfer because there is so much to be done and I'm just so grateful for her because we work so well together. This last week we had 18 Teaching Opportunities, which is HUGE for our area and is our all time high for the 4 1/2 months that we have been together, and now we will just continue on and see even more miracles!
RJ got baptized this week and it really was an awesome experience! Once again, there was some definite opposition coming against him in preparation for the baptism, but thankfully, he recognized it as just that. Afterwards, he told us of the peace that overwhelmed him once he was baptized and then soon after he received the gift of the Holy Ghost :) What a blessing it is to have God's Authority here on the earth.
In my personal study this morning I came across this verse in Alma 13: 7 :
"This high priesthood being after the order of his Son, which order was from the foundation of the world; or in other words, being without beginning of days or end of years, being prepared from eternity to all eternity, according to his foreknowledge of all things—"
God's Authority is without beginning of end, from all eternity to eternity.... What a blessing!
We had a pretty cool experience on Sat after the baptism too. We have been trying to get in contact with this less active member of the church and so Sat. afternoon we stopped by and she miraculously was home! So she let us in and her nonmember friend, named Matt, just happened to be there too. We starting chatting and came to figure out that Matt is very interested in the church and said he would love to learn more from us! He had to run to do something so was just about to leave when a big Haboob struck - which just means a big wind storm-! Tons of trees blew over and outside was orange because all the dust from the Arizona dessert was being blown around, Sooo Matt couldn't leave. We taught him about the Restoration and really emphasized the importance of the priesthood that has been restored to the earth through a modern- day prophet. He listened so intently and just said " That makes sense!" Weirdly enough, he has always lived in AZ but has never had any LDS friends until Kim (the LA lady) and now he interested! SUPER COOL! We will teach him and Kim this Sat :)
Ginni and Kevin are AMAZING! We extended the date of Aug 11 for them to get baptized but they said they couldn't say yes yet, but that they are preparing to be baptized. Then they continued to ask about after baptism. I LOVE this area and miracles are literally happening everyday!
I LOVE being a missionary and I LOVE this gospel!!!!
Another cool scripture that is pretty much my motto is in Romans 1:16
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth..."
I love you all soo much! Go and share the good news of the gospel
Love,
Sister Martin
Saturday, August 11, 2012
July 15, 2012
Hello all,
Funny, but SUPER embarrassing moment! Hahaha I can't even believe that this is going to be put on my blog but oh well.... this story is evidence that the Lord works in mysterious ways. So Paco and Jaquelin have been either out of town or attending every social event known to man so we haven't taught them in 2 weeks... not good! So we see Jaquelin outside and we go and help her carry in groceries. We take them to her house but she says that she has to hurry so we can't stay. Well so literally right when we were saying good-bye, OUT OF NO WHERE, my nose starts to bleed.! Haha, if you know me, you know this thing happens all the time, but NEVER in public! Jaquelin sees what has happened and invites us in to fix it, and while I'm taking care of my nose, Sister Price talked to Jaquelin and she opened up about some of her troubles. We were able to share some scriptures with her and Paco and have a prayer with them! MIRACLE! Hahaha it really was the weirdest and most random thing ever! Gotta love it!
We met with Kevin and Ginni this week and it was the best thing ever! I don't even know how to go about describing their lesson, besides amazing and powerful! The spirit was so strong and Kevin and Ginni completely opened up and told us that they recognize that they have been led all their lives to be exactly at the place where they are now and to be taught the lessons by US! We soft-committed them for baptism and they agreed, but they told us that they want to go REALLY slow because they want to know everything! Well, they will never know everything, but thank goodness they have awesome neighbors who are reading with them in the Book of Mormon through the week, so that will be awesome! At the beginning of the lesson we asked them why they wanted to learn and they told us "we would be stupid to not!" They have had so many positive experiences with the Church and so they already know that it's true! Pretty amazing how that Lord is preparing people their whole lives to be able to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Rjs baptism is this weekend which will be AWESOME! Next week is transfers so cross your fingers that I stay here for my last ( WEIRD) transfer and that hopefully Sister Price will stay with me as well! Great week!
I love you all :)
love Sister Martin
Funny, but SUPER embarrassing moment! Hahaha I can't even believe that this is going to be put on my blog but oh well.... this story is evidence that the Lord works in mysterious ways. So Paco and Jaquelin have been either out of town or attending every social event known to man so we haven't taught them in 2 weeks... not good! So we see Jaquelin outside and we go and help her carry in groceries. We take them to her house but she says that she has to hurry so we can't stay. Well so literally right when we were saying good-bye, OUT OF NO WHERE, my nose starts to bleed.! Haha, if you know me, you know this thing happens all the time, but NEVER in public! Jaquelin sees what has happened and invites us in to fix it, and while I'm taking care of my nose, Sister Price talked to Jaquelin and she opened up about some of her troubles. We were able to share some scriptures with her and Paco and have a prayer with them! MIRACLE! Hahaha it really was the weirdest and most random thing ever! Gotta love it!We met with Kevin and Ginni this week and it was the best thing ever! I don't even know how to go about describing their lesson, besides amazing and powerful! The spirit was so strong and Kevin and Ginni completely opened up and told us that they recognize that they have been led all their lives to be exactly at the place where they are now and to be taught the lessons by US! We soft-committed them for baptism and they agreed, but they told us that they want to go REALLY slow because they want to know everything! Well, they will never know everything, but thank goodness they have awesome neighbors who are reading with them in the Book of Mormon through the week, so that will be awesome! At the beginning of the lesson we asked them why they wanted to learn and they told us "we would be stupid to not!" They have had so many positive experiences with the Church and so they already know that it's true! Pretty amazing how that Lord is preparing people their whole lives to be able to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Rjs baptism is this weekend which will be AWESOME! Next week is transfers so cross your fingers that I stay here for my last ( WEIRD) transfer and that hopefully Sister Price will stay with me as well! Great week!
I love you all :)
love Sister Martin
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