Friends and family-
Life is goooood. Okay so I want to
talk to you about some of the amazing people in this area because they are
seriously the best. So about 2 months ago we started teaching this boy
Anthony (pic attached)- he was way cool but it was hard to read him because
he's a thinker and didn't say much.. he's YSA age so we had to pass him off to
the elders and it ended up being like 3 weeks without us seeing him until
we were finally able to set up a pass off lesson- it was awesome and he
committed to being baptized but was hesitant because he still had a lot of
doubts. He continued to meet with the elders and ended up getting
baptized like 2 weeks later because he loved it so much and knew it was true EVEN
THOUGH his parents kicked him out of his house and are not supporting him in
any way. The YSA ward has helped out a ton with finding him somewhere to
say and he's been going out with the elders a lot and wants to go on a mission
so bad! Coolest thing ever. Also we have been teaching a lot of
kids lately which is sooooo fun- they are so innocent and cute and give the
most tender prayers and it is amazing. Its very humbling and really helps
me to understand why we are told to become as a child so often in the
scriptures! We are also teaching this boy Tyler who is SO AWESOME but he
lives with his girlfriend and we have been scared to bring up the law of
chastity but we finally did and he didn't even take it bad!! Heavenly
Father is so helpful as well as the spirit and I am so grateful to not be doing
this alone.
We got to go to the temple this week and
it was the best thing ever!!! I haven't gone since before my mission and
so I was sooooo excited.
Ok so good news is that I peed my pants
in front of our whole zone so that was really good. Long story short-
Sister Beh and I were giving a training on adjusting to missionary life
and in the book there's this breathing exercise they suggest to do when
stressed and so all the missionaries were closing their eyes and I was reading
what it said to do and then someone started laughing which led to everyone
starting to laugh which led to me realizing I probably should have used the
restroom before I got up in front of 20 missionaries which led to Sister Beh
and I both standing at the front of the room in puddles and everyone else very
amused at the situation. So yes good first impression for the zone from
the STLS and I also peed my pants while street contacting the other but that is
a whole different story.. lets just say I am making a special effort now to use
the restroom at any time possible and that was probably way tmi..
Anywwaayyys on the serious side of
things my companion and I are really trying to be more worthy vessels of the
spirit so we can better help our investigators to progress and to find those
who are prepared. We are doing this "challenge to purify" thing
where we made a list of things that poke at the spirit that we are going to
fast of for the next 40 days- just as Jesus Christ did. One of those
things I'm doing is only emailing family members for the next 40 days. So
if I don't reply to you please don't get offended!! I will definitely
reply in a couple of weeks and I still love you all- I just need a lot of help
from the Lord so we are going to try this out. I love you all so much!!
Seriously so grateful for the emails and support that I receive.. it really
really helps. I hope you all have a wonderful week and please let me know if
theres anything I can do for any of you!!!
Love,
Sister Paul
P.S. If any of you have experiences with law of
chastity/word of wisdom/tithing that you would be willing to share pleeaaasse
let me know! I am trying to gain a better testimony of those things so
that I can relate and help people better and so any advice or testimonies would
be much appreciated. :)
Pictures:
1. One of the sisters had to go home for surgery so we were
in a trio for a couple days- we had a lesson with a single man and since we
were in a trio we had to find 3 other men to come out with us..
6 vs. 1.
It was super fun- anyways, this is Bro. Cancro, Justin, Sister Barker, Sister
Beh and flat Ethan. Thank you sister Jobe for the cute letter and him :)
2. Anthonnnyyyy! He's so cool.
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