So this week has been a week of learning and also of miracles!
First of all... yes the North Carolina Raleigh mission is now on facebook. So no I'm not breaking any rules! And yes I ended up making another account for my mission stuff so it wouldn't mess up my other page. As missionaries we will be posting scriptures and videos that we feel will help the investigators and members in our areas as well as the friends and family we have back home. We have to have our companion check EVERYTHING we post before we post it, even when we are chatting. We are only supposed to chat and talk to people when it is helping them come closer to Christ and help to answer their questions about the church. We can even have lessons on line now! It is an exciting thing and I can't wait to finish setting it all up so I can actually start using it!
We have 4 new investigators for this last week and both Sister Draper and I are super exciting to keep teaching them because we see their potential. One woman is 20 and has an adorable little 5 month old girl. We met her a week ago and we have talked with her every day on the phone! We have also taught her twice (both times covering the restoration) and she has committed to be baptized next month!
Saturday was Sister Draper's 21st Birthday! As limited as we are as missionaries we still managed to celebrate and we are going to keep celebrating today by getting pedicures. I love Sister Draper so much and I am so grateful to be with her here in Fuquay. She is teaching me so much and helping me be better every day. I just love her!!!
Yesterday alone we had many miracles.
One was a text we received telling us that Brother Robinson, who has been meeting with missionaries for years, has finally committed to his wife to be baptized by Thanksgiving! Last we had talked with him he said by Christmas.... so this is a good thing!
We also have a less active, Brother Williams, who is finally going to work on getting to the temple! I love him so much and I am so happy that he is finally coming back to church and has that desire to go to the temple at the age of 72.
These are just a few of the amazing things that happened yesterday and I am very excited for this next week to see what other miracles are waiting to happen. This next week I will also be going on exchanges and I get to go back to Green Level with Sister Brown! It will be so weird to go back but really great too.
Being a missionary is the best! It is also really really hard, but it is completely worth all of the homesickness, stress, and trials you go through. To be able to see people coming closer to being with their families forever just puts the biggest smile on my face! Crazy that I have been out for 4 months... even though they have probably been the longest 4 months on my life.
Jesus Christ lives! He loves us! He helps us every day with those things we need most! Trust in Him!
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