This week has been amazing and I'm already out of time. Darn it! But I"ll try to summarize things as quickly as possible.
First-I am going to be a trainer! I'll pick up my trainee tomorrow
afternoon. I'm still in HB, but Sis Thompson (obviously) is being
transferred to Atherton. She is doing follow up training for a sister
who has been out 6 weeks. So kind of the same thing she did with me-the
last 6 weeks. I'll most likely be training here for the next 12 weeks.
Oh yeah, James-I met Sister Bauer, she is awesome. I wish we could be
comps. She's just been out a transfer but she is already training, after
6 weeks. Crazy! We are getting 13 new sisters tomorrow.
When we got transfer calls I was so nervous. I don't
feel ready to be a trainer at all. Elder Larsen gave me a blessing the
next day because I was totally stressed out. It was awesome. I am so
grateful for the priesthood power. What an amazing gift it is. But
something in the blessing that really struck me was that I was told that
I really need to follow the spirit in this training and that I need to
seek God's will and not mine. So pray for me to be able to do that :)
This week has been one of the most
amazing in my life. We fasted last Sunday that the last week of the
transfer we could get a baptism. We were praying so hard that we would
be effective and be able to make progress in this area. And we had a
goal as a district that we would pray for the other set of missionaries
in our ward every day. And it obviously worked :) SHows you the faith
the elders have. THey're awesome. I'll attach a picture haha.
Anyways: Wednesday we had a lesson with Keith. We
had planned to teach him about the Sabbath day to get him to commit to
come to church all 3 hours. But the lesson didn't go at all as planned.
Bro Walk taught about Church history and the BoM, and then we felt like
we needed to read Moroni's promise again with him. It was so powerful. I
felt so strongly that I needed to ask him to kneel down and pray and
ask right there. I was so scared because I felt like I needed to promise
him that he would get an answer if he really prayed with those 3 pre
requisites-sincere, real intent, faith in Christ. So we all knelt down
right there and he offered one of the most beautiful prayers I had ever
heard. And the Spirit was SO strong. He felt it. There were so many
pauses while he just felt the spirit and felt the answer to his prayer. I
was so very happy! It is amazing how much you care about these people
that you teach. It was a beautiful experience and he got his answer. We
then committed him once again to baptism. He accepted but said that the
date that we had chose at the beginning (June 1st) was too soon. We
really felt that he needed to pick his own date. So we challenged him to
do that.
Unfortunately he canceled his lesson with us on Sat, but he brought
his friend to church :) And we have a lesson with him tonight. But wow.
I was just so happy. I could hardly contain it.
Okay, I"m out of time. But we have another investigator named
Sabrina. She is so very prepared. But I need more time to tell you about
her.
And we also were able to teach Kyle, an unbaptized member. She's 14 and is so great.
This week we really learned the power of prayer. I
have such a testimony of how powerful the prayer of faith is. Specific
prayers = specific answers/blessings.
Okedoke, need to go. Thank you so much for being great. I'm praying for Grandpa. Love you!
Love,
Sister Andelin
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