Monday, April 16, 2012

14 Months out in the field toady!! Wahoo!! Can you believe it? That I've lasted this long hahaha i know, o the miracles of our heavenly father and thank you for all your support! The emails and pictures, letters and talks! I couldn't have made it here without your support!

Well this week was exciting! We had snowstorms for three days straight BUT because it's spring it's all gone now and I'm happy about that! Just when you thought you could put your winter stuff away.... everyone says to watch out for the may long weekend snow dump though, so much to look forward to! Any who! This week we had a ton of plans, back plans and plan C's get cancelled BUT we still managed to teach 19 lessons, half of those being with those investigating the church! The members are loving us and i really am feeling like a part of the branch now here in drayton valley! I just love serving with sister jones. She's such a great support and strength in the missionary work. She's so fun and the members upstairs always catch us hysterically laughing, because if we couldn't laugh at the crazy weird things that happen in the small oil rig town then we would go crazy! Bro Strausberg has been called as a new branch missionary and he was baptized in January! he's going strong and diving into preach my gospel! it will be nice to have the help. We got to do some service this week for some active members. The cressman's allowed us to come over, we took down Christmas lights, fed horses, picked up litter on their huge acreage and cleaned their home while cooking dinner . There are so many hard working members that are so over run with life! i feel fortunate to help. whenever i think of how to
help others i think what would my mom do? what would my mom appreciate? makes things easier!
District Meeting was this week! our zone leaders and president Campbell and his wife joined us for a lovely meeting on discussing the qualities that we must have to qualify to be missionaries. It was the usual discussion until we learned about hope..... it really struck me that we teach our investigators to act on faith A LOT but when do we instill in the them the confidence and expectation of the blessings that come as we live the gospel! the hope is really what, as the
Bookof Mormon teaches, keeps us sure and steadfast always abounding in good works! isn't that what we want for those in the church and newly joined! hope seems to be the answer to my never ending question "how can we keep people strong in the church". let's teach hope! let's teach them that the quality of their lives WILL improve and that all of god's promises will be given to them including eternal life if they are obedient! :) o that was so awesome, i love it when the holy
ghost is teaching the lesson :) We also got to help a family move out and clean their home while spending mornings and evenings reading the Book of Mormon with our investigators! Michael musson has set his baptismal date for may 28thand he told heavenly father in his prayer "I'm so excited! please help the missionaries to prepare me for this date"! so exciting! cam is doing well along with domi and we are excited to meet his wife who has recently returned from Africa!Nothing else too exciting! I'm just trying to enjoy the little things,like the baby animals, kittens and puppies that seem to be popping up everywhere. the sunshine. the moments our
investigators learn new truths and of course the opportunity to exercise and
stay strong for the last three and half months! Love you and miss you
all!! !keep the faith! sister wotherspoon