Well
this week has been great! Oh man. It was good. Everything went so well for
Haylee's baptism. Oh my goodness it was amazing. The Elders had two baptisms as
well so it was great. The ward really showed their support too. It was amazing!
It helped them be fired up for missionary work. We had members coming up to us
to tell us how much they wanted to help and giving us times they could come
out. It was awesome.
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| Haylee's baptism. |
And
Haylee was amazing. When she came up out of the water she was bawling. The Spirit
was so strong. We hugged as she sobbed into my shoulder and she just kept
saying she didn't realize how good she would feel and how different she would
feel. I've never seen her feel the Spirit like that, I felt like her mum. I
love her so much. Then she bore her testimony and it was so beautiful. It was
sincere and pure. I feel so blessed to have been a small part of her conversion
process.
Although,
it was very interesting to me that I thought when I finally got a baptism of
someone I found, taught, and baptized that I would feel a sense of
accomplishment, but I didn't at all. It was so clear to me all night that
Haylee didn't get baptized because of me or because I've changed something in
my missionary work. It doesn't really have anything to do with me at all; it
was all Heavenly Father. Haylee is amazing and I just feel privileged to have
been able to witness and help facilitate a conversion. It's something that I
have been wanting for a long time and now at ten months I finally saw it!
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| Como district. |
I was
also able to sing with Elder A at the baptism. It went really well. God really
blessed us to be able to sing better than ever before. Almost everyone was in
tears and it wasn't because of us, but rather because of the Spirit. ps Elder A
went to Viewmont for his sophomore year, my senior year and we both sang in a
seminary assembly. Small world.
Although
we had all of these beautiful blessings this week, Satan still really tried to
get us. Sister T and I have become such great friends. I love her with all my
heart, but this week we started to both just feel a bit blah and then we were
both getting slightly annoyed with each other at different points. It wasn’t
constant, but much more often than normal. Then finally mid-week I felt annoyed
with her during personal study for a stupid reason and I was done. I was so over getting annoyed about little things because
I love her! So I went into our room and closed the door. I poured out my heart
to God. I told Him that I was frustrated with myself because I'd been feeling
blah and I had been feel uncharitable feelings towards Sister T and I didn't
want to be that way. I prayed with all my strength to have it removed from my
heart and, it was. In comp study we were able to talk about it and we both
talked about the way we'd been feeling. It was soo good. We both realized that
we were being silly and that it was just Satan trying to tear us apart the
last week of transfers and just before Haylee's baptism. We were able to laugh
about all the stupid things we did during the week. It was amazing. We got back
to normal and we love each other more than ever.
We
also had a huge miracle with an investigator we found at the end of last week.
We've been following up heaps of less-actives to see if they still live there
for the past week and a half. It took ages and honestly it was frustrating
because it made it so much harder to find and get other things done, but Bishop
wanted it done, so we did. But through it we found Mark.
He's
been living with his old friend who is a less-active member. We taught him a
lesson and we tried to set a return appointment but he said he'd just take our
number and give us a call... yeah that never happens, but he really did call
us! We've been meeting with him or talking with him on the phone basically
every day since. He loves the Gospel and has been searching for the truth. He
read all of 1 Nephi in a day! Now he's read most of 2 Nephi as well. He loves
the Book of Mormon and he is always studying things about our church and has
excellent questions. We've also been able to find great fellowship for him and
that's been amazing.
The
biggest miracle about Mark is that he came to church and loved it and then we
talked to him on the phone and we set a baptismal date!!! Woot woot! He's so
solid it's crazy! We're thrilled! God is so good to us!
I love
the Como ward. They have been so good to us. On Saturday it was 44 degrees
Celcius.... that's like 109! It was so
hot. All of the members of the ward were telling us we could come sit in
their air con. And then at church they all told us they were thinking of us and
were asking what they could do. One of our closest friends even let us come
have our Sunday afternoon (because we have church in the morning) studies under
their air con. It was amazing. I love this ward. It has so much character. They
are amazing people. I'm going to miss them a lot. I'm going to miss Sister T a
lot too. We've had such a good time together. She's an incredible person and missionary.
I have learned so much from her. Oh and by the way, Sister Lindsay called us
last night and asked us both if we would be Sister Training leaders but said
that we wouldn't be together. I was really surprised because I didn't
think I would be STL again, but I'm excited for the growth that will come as I
get to learn from my new comp..... guess
who....................................................................................................
DRUUUUUUMMMMMMM ROOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL SISTER E!!!!!!!!!! (she
was in my MTC district) I cannot believe it. I'm totally in shock. I have
wanted to be her comp since day one. I feel like I'm dreaming right now.
I'm so stinkin' excited!!!!! I didn't think it was possible. If I could
have chosen any person on the mission I would have chosen her. Dang!! God
is so good to me! We'll be serving with some awesome zone leaders! I'll be
serving in a district with one of my favorite missionaries as my district
leader. Craziness. And I get to go on exchanges. That's the best part.
You're the one who benefits as a STL because you get to learn from all the
different missionaries. And this time I'll be a less-stressed version of
myself. It will be great. I trust that God knows what He's doing with me. This
is going to be such a good transfer.
I love
you all. I am thankful for your love and support. I miss you dearly and pray
for you daily.
ps I
did my “real laugh” for the first time on the mission. I was so tired and worn
out one day. My comp hates navigating and she led us to the complete wrong
place and I pulled over to see what happened and I looked how far off track we
were and I just couldn't stop laughing. It was hilarious. I was crying and everything.
It felt good. But now Sister T and Elders M and A have all seen the real Sister
Tanner laugh... They were really nice about it though. :)
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