Hey Y'all!
Well this week was just wonderful in so many ways! I am just feeling so blessed and so grateful.
MONDAY
was a great day. Sister Porter and I had a great time playing Phase
10... again :) That is our favorite thing to do on P Days. My
studies were just awesome on monday. I was just feeling so blessed to
know that we can have eternal families in this gospel. Heavenly Father
truly does want all of his children to be happy and feel a sense of
stability and belonging. We receive these feelings through our
families. Families provide us with the greatest feelings of love and
joy, but also sorrow and pain. But if we look at our families with an
eternal perspective, we can always learn from every situation and find
the positive. We had dinner with the Bell family. They are just
awesome. They are evidence that the gospel really does bless
individuals and families. I love spending time with the members here. I
learn so much from them!
TUESDAY was just awesome!!!! Sister Porter and I tried out this new thing where we get up 7 minutes to 6:30
so we can have a full half hour of exercise. We tried it, and have
done it every day since. Our day just seemed to go so much better.
Everything went the way it was supposed to. We were able to have a
great lesson with Liz on service. We also had the chance to see a
potential investigator and gain two new investigators from that visit.
We are excited to teach that family!!
WEDNESDAY
was another great day! We had a wonderful visit with two more
potential investigators about the plan of Salvation and the Hallelujah
video. We have a return appointment with them this week. They seemed
so prepared for the Gospel. We are just so excited to teach them! They
have their own ideas about things, but oddly enough, those ideas are
the same as our beliefs in the church. So teaching them is going to be
so great. We also had a great lesson with a less active member. He is
this huge samoan guy from the islands! He thinks that us just coming
over is church for him, but we got him to pray about coming to church.
So he is making good progress!
THURSDAY
was the beginning of the rain. Storms here in Florida are nothing like
any storm i have ever experienced. You can literally feel the storm.
When it thunders, it shakes the walls and windows and you just feel it
in your bones. haha its pretty insane. We had a great member present
lesson with liz. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon.
Liz has such a great testimony and was just so excited and ready for
her Baptism!
FRIDAY
was just crazy! Probably one of my favorite days this week though! We
were able to visit a recent convert sister who hasn't really been
coming to church. We had a great visit with her. She has the greatest
desire to be sealed to her late husband! So we will be helping her
prepare for that. Our favorite member, Tammy, came out with us for the
afternoon. We had some awesome lessons with the people we visited. Our
investigator, Vera, is just so inspiring. She is going through the
tail end of her treatments for Breast Cancer, and is just a trooper.
She has so much faith and knows that everything she has is from the
lord. She is just amazing. I get strength just from being around her.
SATURDAY
was the long anticipated Baptism for Liz! It was such a special day.
We started off the day right and had an awesome breakfast with miss
tammy and helped her with some packing in preparation for her move. We
then prepared for Liz's Baptism. Filling up the font was just the best.
We set up the chairs and all that jazz. The Baptism was small, but it
was perfect. Liz was just beaming. Bishop Ard was the one to Baptize
her. We showed the Hallelujah video while she was getting dried off and
changed. The spirit was just so strong when it said, " even so in
christ shall all be made alive." I am not sure if i mentioned this
before, but liz has had two sisters pass away within the last 10 years
or so. I am positive that they were there at her baptism. There was
such a special spirit there. I know that they both are so proud of liz
and can't wait to have her do baptisms for them. We also had the chance
to watch the General Women's Broadcast at the church. That was just so
great. I boo-hooed the whole time. The spirit just bore a powerful
witness to the truthfulness of the things that were shared. I Love this
Gospel so much and i am so happy to be a member of the church.
SUNDAY
was easter and a great one at that. I absolutely love easter.
Celebrating the resurrection of Christ is just awesome. The Bonifay
ward put on a beautiful musical program all centered on the savior.
Again, i was just so overcome by the spirit that i was just crying.
Emotions definitely get the best of me. Liz was also confirmed a member
of the church and given the Gift of the Holy Ghost. That was a
wonderful experience as well. She was just glowing with the light of
the spirit. She is such a sweet lady! She has so much to look forward
to in her new found life in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I
know that the Savior lives. I know that he Loves each of us so
deeply. Even though he was despised and rejected of men, he suffered
the Atonement for each of us and was crucified to bring forth the
resurrection. I am so grateful for the knowledge we have of our LIVING
Savior. As we strive to understand and apply the atonement in our lives
each day, we will become more like the savior and grow closer to him in
the process. I love that we can find ourselves when we lose ourselves
in the service of others. When we are serving others, we are serving
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Sure do Love and miss y'all! Have a blessed week!
Sister Melissa Jean Wood
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