Top of the Morning to you!!! 🙂
We’ve had some great successes this week, and I’m not calling it LUCK…even though it was St. Patty’s Day yesterday!! 😉 Our mission president had a revelation to have our entire mission fast on Sunday to find a new investigator on Tuesday. I knew we could find one, but we only had one hour on Tuesday to do it because we had a lot of appts. scheduled. And it was in the LAST HOUR OF THE DAY….8-9!
Anyways, so we started tracking and everyone was getting ready for bed. So we called up a former investigator that hadn’t been taught for two years. Her name was Brenda Salter from the Caribbeans! She told us that her LDS daughter sent her a letter last week telling her her testimony and explaining how badly she needed to get baptized! So she allowed us to come back later that week and continue teaching her! “whala!” Our fast was blessed by the hand of the Lord. 🙂 🙂 I’m so happy to record that in my journal. Miracle. We went back two days later with Sis. Jensen (our host mom) and had one of the most entertaining lessons EVER!
Brenda is a martial artist and has an extreme passion and burning fire for defending helpless people. In order to tell us some background information about herself, she started telling us a story about how she saved someone’s life. She stood up and started doing all of these martial arts moves and screaming!! I struggled so hard not to laugh because it was just a tad akward…but it turned out to be a great lesson at the end. You never know what you’re going to expect when you teach people! 🙂
One of our members invited a friend to dinner with us there! If you haven’t had the opportunity to have the missionaries over for dinner, I highly suggest doing so! It blesses the lives of missionaries more than you can imagine and you will have the chance to serve, and touch a friend’s heart that you bring along. 🙂
Sis. Jensen was explaining people’s weaknesses in a really neat way that I’ve never heard before. She said that everyone in the world is in a boat. Sadly, everyone’s boat has a hole in it. Some have really apparent big holes; others have many small holes that they try to cover up. Some people will point and mock at other people’s holes because they are bigger than theirs. But in reality, we are all going to sink! Some people just sit and wallow in their boat saying “I’m going to drown and I can’t do anything about it!” While others are constantly bailing out the water trying to stay afloat. We can use the atonement to accept that we will all eventually sink, and that Heavenly Father knows we all have weaknesses. He knows that we all can’t stay afloat without Him. None of us are better than the other, and so we shouldn’t try to compare our weaknesses and strength to others!
We all need to remember the reality of Jesus Christ’s atonement for each one of us! We are all sinners, but we are all SO IMPORTANT to our Heavenly Father. I’ve learned that everyday more and more! 🙂 I’m so grateful for this opportunity to be a sister missionary and to remind myself each day I put on my tag that I get this privilege to represent the most important person in the world….our and Redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ. This week marks my half way mark and I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father has helped me through this far. 🙂 I Love everyday of my mission life. I loved everyday before my mission too, but I just feel so thankful to have been changed so much more into a happier and more teachable person. I love my Savior Jesus so much!! I love my Heavenly Father who sent me to the best situation possible. I know he loves each one of you the same as he loves his prophets! 🙂 And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN! 🙂
Sister Tobias 🙂