Dear Family and Friends,
Well, there is crazy stuff happening in the orion zone. Last
monday we had a huge mission get together and had water fights, played some
outside games and had a great time. we watch 17 miracles and then by 5 we
left and we were all so exhausted and sunburned it was so much fun to see
everyone and to relax again. we achieved our standard of excellence 188 but i
want us to get 200 next month and then we get another party. this is just
the drive that we all need to really give our best and i see how it has pushed
me to more effectively help our investigators to progress. we have one
family (who i sent you pictures of) who we have taught her everything and we
are just waiting for her to get married but it seemed like it was never going
to happen because she was being slow in a sense. we when we were doing
our goal setting i kept thinking about her and so that night we went to her and
we asked her if she knew that this is the true church and if joseph smith was a
true prophet and i knew she knows it is true. so then we asked her if she could
be ready to be baptized by april 26? since then she has gotten really gun
ho about getting everything ready and within a day she is no longer drinking
coffee. i am seeing miracles here. we went to her last night and
she felt something was wrong. she asked me if i wasnt telling her
something and i immediatly thought "she knows that transfer day is coming
up" i told her so that she could mentally calm down and she cried.
she doesn't want anyone of us to transfer because she loves us and
honestly i love her so much. she is like my second family. i want to see
her married and her and her child gregory baptized in this church. it is
funny because she told me a long time ago that her and her husband are so busy
they don't talk. well right now he is seeing changes in her and has
started being cute again with her. he says sweet little comments and i
think it is because he wants the light he sees in her. so we will see
what happens but in know that if he gives us time to teach him (because he runs
a jersey shop) that he can feel the same happiness she feels. ah families!!
So i want to tell you about and experience that i had yesterday.
we went to sacrament and we had 8 investigators come to church. i
think that is the highest i have had on my whole mission. we had one of
our investigators Nora dizon get up and bare her testimony. this was her
first time coming to church and this is what she said (background: she has like
5 kids and the oldest doesn't want to go to school or have anything to do with
religion, he husband is an excommunicated inglesia ni cristo (they are crazy
too) and she is catholic but really wants to know the truth she is the one who
let us in her house when we went finding) she got up there and told us how she
had prayed that morning that the lord would help her feel the truth and as she
was coming to the church she got lost and entered into this other church.
immediatly she knew that it was wrong and left. she wanted to go
home she didn't know where to go or what to do. she said a prayer and
then asked a priest where the mormon church was and he pointed right across the
street. i felt the spirit so strong and i knew that she knew that
this was the true chruch on the earth and she felt it. even though she
was only an investigator oh my goodness i knew that heavenly father was crying
with here and was holding her up at that stand. i felt it.
we have 7 baptisms planned for this month and so far i think we
will achieve 6 because one didn't come to church yesterday but we will see why.
i am so excited for this area and to see how it is improving so quickly.
i love it. i love the poeple i love the area i love my companion i
love the work. i am seeing how heavenly father is molding me in my
knowledge and my actions to be better and he is pushing me to push myself to push
this area. i love being a missionary and i would never trade this experience
for the world. i know that my heavenly father loves me because i have
felt it so many times in the last couple days. he is aware of us and the
needs of other and i know that although changes and trials are hard they shape
us and make us who we are so we can grow. thank you all for your support
and I love you. talk to you next week!
Sister
Snow
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