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
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