Dear Family and Friends,
Happy Labor Day!! It was a pretty great
week. We had a lot of miracles. We had 18 lessons, we found a
new investigator, and Bill, one of our recent converts, went to the temple to
do baptisms for the dead and loved it!!
Charlie is still planning on getting baptized on September
13th, but is struggling with tithing so he's back and forth. Prayers for
him would be great :) He is so ready, and he comes to church every
Sunday. He just needs the faith to understand that everything will be ok
if he pays tithing!
Our new investigator, Lonnie, is amazing. We taught
the Restoration and he loved it. He said he'd read from the Book of
Mormon and he accepted a baptismal date of October 4th. He seems very
interested! We also met with Devan, an investigator, and asked if he had
prayed to know if the Book of Mormon was true and if the Restoration really
happened. He said, "No I haven't prayed about it, and I don't mean
to say I don't think prayer will work because that's not it at
all. I just haven't prayed yet because I don't really have any
questions yet. I already believe it!" We are so excited for
these two investigators!! We will be working with them a lot to prepare
them to make and keep covenants!
We also went on exchanges this week and I went to the
R Ward with Sister H. We had a good 'ole time. We were
in a truck because the roads in their area are mostly dirt :) Like
big dirt hills :)
We also did service for Peggy and hauled a ton of
wood. My back was super sore and I was pretty exhausted the next day, but
hey we did some pretty good work. There was a lot of wood!
A cool story I heard in church:
A man asks the refiner how he purifies silver.
The refiner replies, "Well you have to leave the silver
in the middle of the fire for the perfect amount of time. If you
don't leave it in enough then it won't be completely pure, but if you leave it
in too long then it will be burned"
The man asks, "How do you know when it's been in for
the perfect amount of time?"
The refiner replies, "That's easy. It's done when
I can see myself in the reflection".
This is what our Heavenly Father says about us. We
have to go through these hard times, but Heavenly Father is allowing us to
become perfect. We will be taken out of the refiner's fire when we are
like our Heavenly Father. In 3 Nephi 12:48 it says, "Therefore I
would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is
perfect." With God's help and the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can
be made perfect.
I hope everyone has a great week and enjoy the end of
summer :)
Love,
Sister Moon
Pictures:
The wood we stacked!
The dirt hill we had to drive up :/
Exchanges with Sister Higbee
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