Here's a little thing I wrote to someone else trying to describe everything -
"Oh my goodness, we had the biggest miracle of my LIFE this past
week! We had 3 baptisms!!!!! This family has been investigating the
church for 2 years now and 3/5 of them just made the commitment and were
baptized on Saturday! Greatest experience of
my life. Seriously though, it didn't come about without a TON of prayers
and childlike faith. We've been praying for this family the entire
month of May and our district/zone was praying for them as well. And we
worked our tails off. We were hoping for just
2, but then Heavenly Father blessed us with 3. They didn't commit until
the LAST week of the month! It was crazy. But I'm just so thankful
that Heavenly Father helps us in the goals we set. It was a scary
month, because we knew we'd be accountable for the
goal of 2 baptisms we set, but in the end it all worked out. Even if
there were moments of serious struggling. Faith of a child is where
it's at. Heavenly Father is always there for us, no matter what."
Getting the Chee Family to baptism was the biggest exercise of
faith I think I've had while on the mission. Like stated above, Sister
Brown and I set the goal for 2 baptisms in the month of May and we
didn't have a single person on date. We set the goal
because our mission president had told us that our zone would have 2
baptisms this month, and there wasn't a single person on date in the
zone for May. It was scary, but then President Adams went on to talk
about having the faith of a child. So we did. We
did everything we could, but then Satan also knew we were trying, so
everything wasn't going according to plan. The Chee's canceled on us...
they didn't stay all 3 hours of church... all these super unusual
things! BUT! then basically the last week of the
month they agreed to be baptized!!! ... Then President Adams said the
twins couldn't be baptized without a parent... THEN SISTER CHEE AGREED
TO BE BAPTIZED!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness gracious..., Last week was a
rollercoaster! And it all ended well :) I'm excited
to go to MLC tomorrow and put up the number saying that we had 3
baptized in May instead of 2! Miracles happen. We just have to work
and put our trust in the Lord.
Other highlights from the week- Sister Brown and I did a musical
number at the baptism! We sang Sister Chee's favorite song Nearer My
God, To Thee. We wanted to mash it with another one, but ended up
Sister Brown singing soprano solo first first, me
ALTO solo second verse (that's right! I sang alto! And I killed it. I
was pretty proud of myself) then we came together singing our
individual parts third verse. It sounded amazing. I now know a song in
Alto!
We also had the FUNNIEST lesson of my life! We took our ward
mission leader to the Chee's lesson and he is hilarious. We were crying
from laughing so hard. He demonstrated how to fake conducting by
writing your name in cursive. And then he just kept
going. I can't really describe everything in an email... just know that
we're still laughing about it. And you can maybe picture Brother
Connell walking across the stage as he write his name while leading a
song. Haha, it was so good. I haven't laughed
that hard in a LONG time.
We had our STL council! It was so great :) We planned out our
upcoming Sister Conference and I'm so excited for it!!!! There's also a
possibility I'll get to teach a family in Aztec for a night!!! I would
die from happiness if that were to happen.
We had a mix up and ended up having 2 dinners in one night this past week... man... that was a rough one, but we did it!
Arianna is on date now!!!! What a stellar 11 year old!!!
I got to cut some Elder's hair this past thursday before District
meeting!!! That was super exciting. THen we had some crazy trainings...
some concerns that were brought up were that our "investigators" had a
skinwalker in their closet and that one needed
their cat to have a priesthood blessing. We laughed, but we did learn a
lot too!
And then we killed way too many wolf spiders this past week. Sister Brown is pro. I stand back and watch still..
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! I'm about out of time, sorry.
Hope you have a great week!!
Love,
Becca
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