Another week has come and gone and here I am again sitting on the computer in the library writing a letter to all of you! How is everyone? Can ya'll believe that July is over?
This was a really great week for me, I feel like there was a lot of personal growth that happened for me. The lord allowed me to see so many miracles!
I want to tell you about a family who we have been teaching this last week, Shay and Rob. In the Lost Mountain Ward they have a history of really good key indicator numbers (how many lessons we teach each week, new investigators, baptisms, etc) except for three... Baptism, confirmation and investigators to sacrament meeting. This week our President promised us that as we refocused that we would be able to get two people on date for baptism. With this promise Sister Mataele and I got to work. We worked and we worked and we worked. Late last night we had one more appointment with Shay and Rob before we had to report our numbers, we just prayed that they would be the ones who the lord promised us we could get on date for baptism! We already had Shay on baptism but we were still waiting on Rob, he is such a strong man but he always tells us that he is just trying to figure everything out before he commits to baptism.
We finished the lesson with the family and then we again invited Rob to be baptized, he told us that he really wasn't thinking about baptism but he was just trying to live right and be obedient in keeping the sabbath day holy. We shared 3 Nephi 27:20 with him "Now this is THE commandment, repent all ye ends of the earth and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day." we then explained to Rob that being baptized is a commandment and that we must do it to live with our Father again. During this discussion the spirit was so strong in the room there was no doubt that it was there and Rob turned to us and said "well I guess this is really what I should be focusing on as I pray." We asked him that when he receives an answer for himself if he would be Baptized with his wife on the 17th. He said yes!
Through this experience I know that as we are patient that the Lord will allow us to see miracles. I know that the Spirit was the one speaking to Rob and that the things that came out of my mouth as I spoke to him were not my own. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be here on a mission. These haven't been the best two months of my life but they have already been the best two months for my life. The Lord is blessing me in so many ways, I truly believe that I will be a better person because of this mission.
I am trying harder to give my whole heart to this mission and to the will of the Lord, I figured out that I am kind of a stubborn person and that I like to do things my way. I am learning to do things a little differently now and man is it hard!
I would like to share a scripture with you guys before I close up this letter. Heleman 5:12- "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the arock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your bfoundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty cstorm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."
I know and I have felt that as I have built my foundation on the Lord that I am strenghtened and that I can do anything, this has been so evident to me as I have been serving a mission. I promise you that if you trust the lord and build on him you will be blessed beyond belief and most of all you will find Joy.
I am finding Joy in the Journey! This week I recieved the Song Book I asked for from Barbara Leary. There is a song in it called "Misty's song" I want to share a part of it that I love because I feel that as life gets us down we always need to remember to find Joy in the Journey, Joy isn't something for the future it is for us to experience now!
"tell me the reason I was born to roam, telll me the reason I am so far from home. How many mountains will have to climb, how many memories will I leave behind. There is a valley called Peace of Mind, there is a river running right by it's side, there is a moment of glory so new."
I want you all to know how much I love you! Thank you for everything :)
Grandma, thank you for getting that package together for me! I love you.
Sister Barnett
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