Alma 5

This week has been great! We've been continuing to work on the fireside were putting on about Revelation and knocking doors talking about baptism with everyone. It's been a really great and fun experience.

And there are just so many things from the gospel.  Today I was reading in Alma 5 so the other day we met a guy who asked us if we had salvation and we explained about the gospel of Jesus Christ and he said that was not how it worked but as I read Alma 5 this morning. Alma the younger explains about it and asks some great questions that I feel like that we could all use to evaluate ourselves to become more like Christ. It was just really cool.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Baptismal Invitations

Well, this week has been good. We had like 3 really long meetings. XP I learned a whole lot, but they also made me way tired. One thing President Choi really stressed was inviting everyone we talk with to be baptized.  so we started doing that. Some reactions we get to it are quiet hilarious. Some try to start walking away from us.  Some do really weird faces and such. But we're following his council and our numbers went up this week! It's been really exciting.

I read a talk this morning by Linda S. Reeves. I don't remember what it's called, but she stresses doing Family Home Evening, daily scripture study (with family), and daily prayers (with family) and she talks about how doing these things will strengthen us as trials come upon us and how the strength from them help and how the Book of Mormon does strengthen us. And she just encourages us to really do those things. It was really cool.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Luggage

I survived transfers. My companion and I are both staying in Cougar Mountain for another transfer!! Woot! We're super excited we had 2 lessons with A__________ and they went awesome!!! There are some amazing things happening here.

We are also planning a fireside and a ESL class for Chinese speakers. Since most of the population is Chinese anyways. But yeah.

So, somewhat funny story. So as we were waiting for transfer calls we just kept waiting and waiting and 10:30 came along and nothing happened, we didn't even get a text saying that transfer calls were over, so we weren't really sure what was going on. So this morning, we get a call and they ask if we can help the Russian sisters with there luggage. They were in a trio. and all 3 of them were getting transferred. So our car was full of luggage and that's the only reason we went to transfers. But I'm super excited for this transfer and this week it's going to be so fun!! :D

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with yo

Wahoo!

WOOT!!! This week was just so great!! It was super hot! But that's alright because we had a baptism!! For T_______ L_____!! Woot!! It was very exciting. The spirit was so strong at the baptism. A____ came to the baptism. It was just amazing.

A______ is progressing really well. He's been keeping all of his commitments and we just see the small changes that he is making without having to ask him to make the changes and he realizes how good the gospel is and how it will make him a better person and he's willing to make those changes!! And something that's kinda funny is that  one of our members went up to him and asked him if
he was going to be baptized next week? And he said, "I dunno, I don't have anything scheduled." when the member told us, we busted up laughing because we have felt the prompting that he could get baptized this week. So we're praying really hard for our lesson on Tuesday.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Miracles Never Cease

WOOT!! What an exciting week!! So, last week, after Sacrament Meeting, we got a text from someone name T______. Neither my companion or I knew who she was, but she asked if we were here in the Cougar Mountain Ward? We said "Yes" and we went and met her. It turns out that she met with missionaries 4 years ago and now she wants to be baptized. We met with her twice this week and in our first meeting, when we were inviting her to be baptized, we asked her if she would want to be baptized on August 2nd. and she said, "Let me look at my calendar" and she looked and it already said baptism in it!! Crazy!! And she is getting baptized this week!! This Saturday!!! She's super prepared and ready for this!!!

As we met with A________ this week, we finished talking about the Plan of Salvation and J____ (his fellowshiper who is awesome and funny) picked up the Celestial Kingdom cut out (from the visual) and boldly told him he wants Anton to be in the Celestial Kingdom with him. And so A______ is going to be baptized sometime in August. But the date isn't set yet. But it was kinda funny because J____ and the M_____ were talking about baptism with A______ at the end and they started joking around that after the baptism they would all go to a shooting range to celebrate. (A_____ used to be a part of the Navy, he loves guns and owns lots of guns and a lot of the people in the ward really enjoy guns too so it's like perfect)

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Christmas Gift Idea

Well, this week has been good.  We met with A____ and had some amazing lessons.  He also came to church and the member missionary fireside on Sunday!!! He's super awesome. It's really funny, he keeps using 'interesting' to describe everything because it's so different than what he's used too. But he's doing just great!!

We also had a Zone Conference this week which was just so amazing.  I love Zone Conferences. So they gave us this paper with instructions on it for "Making your own Christmas Gift" Book of Mormon reading and marking plan.

1. Start tomorrow reading 3 1/2 pages per day from a new unmarked Book of Mormon
2. Using two different colors (such as red and blue):
Mark every scripture with one color where god or Jesus Christ is speaking
Mark Every scripture that describes Jesus Christ or god in the other color. (e.g. The goodness of God, justice of God, the love of Jesus Christ, the mercy of Jesus Christ etc)
3. by Christmas you will have a treasured lifetime gift in your marked Book of Mormon and a strengthened testimony of Jesus Christ.

I Started doing that and it's been so cool to highlight all those things about Christ.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Exchanges

So we went on exchanges this week. I went to Beaverlake and we had the member dinner with the Sansings!! It was really exciting.  Brother Sansing said that I couldn't say it was weird going back to my old area, so I'm not going to say it :)  Exchanges went good. We found a new investigator for them, so that was exciting. But, I also got eaten alive by bugs. But the bug bites are now disappearing.

So, after exchanges Sister Mcclain and I had a lesson with A______ and he wants to be baptized on Augest 2nd!! :D He even came to church!! We are super excited. He's super awesome. And yeah...that's about it for this week.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you