Every Day is a miracle out here. GOD IS GOOD!!!
Just one blessing from yesterday... okay so our zone baptism goal for the month of Aug was 11 and as of yesterday it was looking like we weren't going to make it. We were going to end up with 10 for the month... which is still great, but we all knew that 11 was the number. So during church, while talking to Kevin and Ginny about Christian's baptism for Sept 1, Ginny just felt like that wasn't the date and that it needed to be sooner so SHE changed it to Aug 30!!! It didn't hit me until later that was in AUGUST! Once it hit me, we called the zone leaders and found out that yesterday both had prayed to be able to meet our goal... AND WE DID! pretty cool!
What a blessing it was to see Kevin prepared and bless the sacrament and then this Thursday be able to baptize his son! What a tender mercy this is to me to see missionary work in a full circle. Last night we were teaching Christian about the prophet and the law of tithing, and Kevin told us how while on a business trip this week in Texas, he gave a copy of The Book of Mormon to one of his friends!!! They've worked together for a while and of course, Kevin told him about him getting baptized. So naturally, Kevin told him "Hey just read this and if it enlightens you but you don't want to join, that's ok, because you got something out of it. If you read it and it's just a history book to you, then that's great too because then you learned a little bit more about me.." ohhh boy he is the best missionary ever!
This week was fantastic! We started teaching a new couple from Rwanda, Africa!!! Erwin and Sapi! They are so humble and just ready for the gospel in their lives. While we were teaching them about the apostasy and the effects of it being darkness and confusion, Sapi's eyes were just glued to us. Obviously, living in Rwanda for most of her life, could understand that darkness! She looked at us and said " Sisters, are you telling me that we have Prophets here on the earth AGAIN, just like moses and Noah, who can help us to get back to God?" That is exactly what we are telling you!! They came to church and was a great sight it was to see them! also It was also cool because a sister missionary was giving her homecoming and she had just returned FROM AFRICA! God is a God of Miracles!
Elisa and Luiz are doing incredibly well! We extended a baptism date and are a little hesitant to commit to a specific date, but I know if we give them a bit of time they will know by the power of the Holy Ghost that the things they are learning are true, because they are praying, reading the scriptures and coming to church! Elisa is so cute! During the lesson she told us how excited she was for her 2 year old Alex to be able to grow up in the church!!!
GOD IS OUR FATHER, WE ARE HIS CHILDREN, HE LOVES US, AND WE ARE ALL PART OF HIS FAMILY! We have a prophet today, who teaches us what God would have us know so that we can Return to live with him AGAIN!
Read, Pray, Ask... its that simple ... GOD WILL ANSWER YOU!
I love you all
love sister martin
Sunday, September 2, 2012
August 20, 2012
GREAT WEEK!!:) haha
So Luiz and Elisa! I LOVE THEM
ohhh man i really don't know how i have been so blessed to be able to teach such awesome people. So our first real lesson with both of them was crazy! Pretty much Sister Price was super sick but I made her go to the lesson because we had to meet with them! haha but so we get there and she looks dead. About 10 min into the lesson she asks if she can use their bathroom and is gone for 30 min throwing up in their bathroom... oops...! but so it was just me teaching the lesson with the fellowship and it actually went really well, Thank goodness for the Spirit, because I don't even think that they really realized that she was gone that long, or at least they didn't say anything about it! haha The lesson was awesome and Elisa would get baptized tomorrow, but Luiz is going to take a little longer. Just to show how much they love us, they invited us to go to Elisa's baby shower the next day to eat papoosas which are an El Salvadorian food! AMAZING by the way! The baby shower was definitely an experience... haha
Elder Aidukaitis, from the first quorum of the 70 came and trained us this week and then we had a fireside with him and we brought our investigators/ recent converts/ and less actives and it was POWERFUL! ohhhh man the Church is TRUE :) Revelation was coming out of the woodworks and it was just an incredible experience to be able to listen to him. "The proud do what they want and the humble change. To be obedient we must change." Oh do i need to be more humble... He taught us
A LOT and introduced A LOT of new ways of doing things and I'm struggling with implementing all of them. I have to because he also said, "sometimes leaders can be like lids (on a stove), they limit the growth". He taught so simply and powerfully.
There is also a quote in PMG that he changed some words around... I'm was crying when he read this! "I am so thoroughly convinced this; if we don't set goals in our lives [missions] and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age [the end of our missions] only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting goals, he will then be able to make a difference in the results he attains in this life [mission]." Elder M Russell Ballard
WHY DIDN'T HE COME SOONER.... ughhh! but I'm still grateful
Kevin received the priesthood yesterday and what a GREAT THING! They might wait a little longer until stake baptisms for Christian to be baptized, which is sad because I wont be here, but its all okay because just seeing the changes the gospel has already made in this families lives, is just truly amazing! No on can ever convince me that this gospel isn't true! There is just TOO MUCH FRUIT!
I love you all so very much :)
love sister martin
So Luiz and Elisa! I LOVE THEM
ohhh man i really don't know how i have been so blessed to be able to teach such awesome people. So our first real lesson with both of them was crazy! Pretty much Sister Price was super sick but I made her go to the lesson because we had to meet with them! haha but so we get there and she looks dead. About 10 min into the lesson she asks if she can use their bathroom and is gone for 30 min throwing up in their bathroom... oops...! but so it was just me teaching the lesson with the fellowship and it actually went really well, Thank goodness for the Spirit, because I don't even think that they really realized that she was gone that long, or at least they didn't say anything about it! haha The lesson was awesome and Elisa would get baptized tomorrow, but Luiz is going to take a little longer. Just to show how much they love us, they invited us to go to Elisa's baby shower the next day to eat papoosas which are an El Salvadorian food! AMAZING by the way! The baby shower was definitely an experience... haha
Elder Aidukaitis, from the first quorum of the 70 came and trained us this week and then we had a fireside with him and we brought our investigators/ recent converts/ and less actives and it was POWERFUL! ohhhh man the Church is TRUE :) Revelation was coming out of the woodworks and it was just an incredible experience to be able to listen to him. "The proud do what they want and the humble change. To be obedient we must change." Oh do i need to be more humble... He taught us
A LOT and introduced A LOT of new ways of doing things and I'm struggling with implementing all of them. I have to because he also said, "sometimes leaders can be like lids (on a stove), they limit the growth". He taught so simply and powerfully.
There is also a quote in PMG that he changed some words around... I'm was crying when he read this! "I am so thoroughly convinced this; if we don't set goals in our lives [missions] and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age [the end of our missions] only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting goals, he will then be able to make a difference in the results he attains in this life [mission]." Elder M Russell Ballard
WHY DIDN'T HE COME SOONER.... ughhh! but I'm still grateful
Kevin received the priesthood yesterday and what a GREAT THING! They might wait a little longer until stake baptisms for Christian to be baptized, which is sad because I wont be here, but its all okay because just seeing the changes the gospel has already made in this families lives, is just truly amazing! No on can ever convince me that this gospel isn't true! There is just TOO MUCH FRUIT!
I love you all so very much :)
love sister martin
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