Hey
Everyone!!
Wow. This has been quite the week! Many ups and downs and many workings
of Satan. I kind of don't know how to feel right now! There is a lot to tell so
I will try to get it all. Ok Monday was alright. Sister Sevy felt pretty sick
so we didn't do a whole lot. Tuesday we had to get an oil change on our car and
that took forever. We also taught a few lessons and saw the Lee's. It was a
pretty good day. Then Wednesday was our mission conference with Elder
Kopischke! It was amazing! Everyone was really worried he was going to
reprimand us like Elder Aidukaitis did so we were all a little wary. He was
super awesome though! At the beginning he had us all write down questions that
we had and have the faith that through the spirit they would be answered! It
was perfect because just the night before I had all these questions I was
praying about and really asking Heavenly Father to answer and when he said that
it was the answer to my prayer! I immediately wrote down all of my questions.
Then later in the conference when he spoke again, we had more of a discussion.
He would say something and then he would ask what did you learn and we talked
about it. He talked a lot about faith and the doctrine of Christ. He also
talked about ways to work with members and investigators to help them feel the
spirit and be curious. It was just pretty amazing all the way around! I learned
so much! There was one point when he was talking about faith and going through
things as taught in Alma 32, right then I knew it was just what Brittani
needed! He talked about having the people we are teaching write down questions
and talk with them about having the faith that they will be answered during
church through the Holy Ghost. There were so many good things! It was kind of a
spiritual overload, but I really loved it! Plus I got to see Sister McNeely and
other people that I haven't seen for a while and it was pretty fantastic!
Thursday was also a really good day. We saw Gabriel and she is doing really
well and we also saw Diamond. Diamond is very interesting. She has a lot of
issues but she really wants to change and progress and she reads the Book of
Mormon and loves coming to church. It helps me remember that the gospel is for
everyone and Christ spent a lot of time with those who were very needful and
how grateful they were! I really like her! Then we went and saw a lady named
Rose, her story is kind of long and confusing but she has been coming to church
with her husband. She had surgery a few weeks ago so we have been really trying
to have the ward fellowship her and help her and I think it has helped her a
lot! She is Catholic but I think she will come around. Then Friday we saw
Diamond again and had a really good lesson with her about the Word of Wisdom.
Then we went and saw Brittani! We had the most fantastic lesson with her! We
talked all about faith and she loved it and had really awesome answers and
things to say the whole lesson. It was a really powerful lesson! Then Friday
night we were on lockdown because I guess there were some crazies threatening
to kill a bunch of people. Brittani was really sweet and called to warn us that
we shouldn't be out walking the streets that night. She was the only person in
the ward who warned us! It was very touching! Then Saturday rolled around!
Sister Sevy felt really sick that day so we didn't do much. Plus it has been SO
HOT this week! It has been like 106 + all week and super humid. It seriously
feels like you are going to die as soon as you step outside and that makes
Sister Sevy feel even more sick. We didn't do much that day but then stake
conference Saturday session rolled around! It was an amazing session and the
spirit was so strong! The theme was”Hastening the work of Salvation” and they
had some recent converts bear their testimonies and Elder Kopischke kept asking
what people were learning. It was more of a discussion then and the spirit was
really strong! At the end he was asking what impressions people had received
from tonight and people were answering and it was really good! Then all of a
sudden this person in the way back started talking and we both realized it was
Brittani and we were like uh what is she doing?!! She said that she wasn't a
member of the church and had been meeting with the sisters for a long time and
tonight she felt really impressed that she needed to be baptized! It was so
amazing! She finally had her "aha" moment! Sister Sevy and I both
started bawling! Then after it was over everyone wanted to meet her and there
was like a whole posse following us around. I felt bad for poor Brittani it was
a little overwhelming but she was a trooper! It was really a miracle because of her total
change of heart! We went over yesterday and talked to her and set a date for
Sept. 20! Her husband will baptize her. It was so funny because her husband wasn't at the Saturday Session and then the
next day we saw him and he came up to us and was like "so I heard there
were some interesting developments that happened last night" and we were
like ya way to try and be cool about it. Brittani told us secretly that when
she told him she wanted to be baptized he cried! You can tell he is super happy! There were some struggles during the week too.
Carrie is struggling but it is just Satan getting to her so we are going to
work with her and help her. She will be fine in the end, just some temporary
set backs! One thing I have decided to do is study about Satan since he seems
to be coming up so much lately in our investigators lives. It sounds like a
weird thing to do but I felt it would be helpful, “Study the enemies Tactics,
that is what all good soldiers do right”!
As I have continued to study in the scriptures and the prophets
teachings the most mentioned and
therefore the most helpful is “OBEYING GODS COMMANDMENTS AS A PROTECTION
AGAINST THE INFLUENCE OF SATAN”! My patriarchal blessing states “Your obedience
to the commandments of the Lord will be as a wall of protection for you against
the onslaughts of the adversary. You
will know and see how he moves about among the children of men.” I have to know
how to be able to stop him from getting to those I love!! Elder Kopischke is so cool, he is german so
he has a way cool accent. He was having
a really hard time understanding the southern sounding people!! Someday I want
to be as knowledgeable as he is!!! Missionary work is awesome though! I love
being a missionary! I love Heavenly Father and his plan and how the spirit
works and I am so thankful I get to be here and see all these miracles.
Everyone pray that I get to stay here another transfer so I can see Brittani
get baptized and help work out everyone else's problems!! I love all of you and don't forget to listen
to the promptings of the Holy Ghost! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
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