to me and my companion, we have been blessed to see many miracles and beautiful growth here in beautiful Vermont!
First of all, we got to meet Shane! He was the one who called us last week and just said he wanted to set something up!! He is about 22 ish and a student at the college here. We taught him the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and Aitanna, a less active member, was there as well! He has already begun reading the Book of Mormon and has seen the blessings therein! He has also found answers to his prayers as he has prayed more often and with that real intent. He has accepting the commitment to be baptized. He is so excited to find constant peace in his life through the Atonement of Christ. I am so excited to help him to see all the ways the gospel can bless him and give him guidance.
Aaron, Morgana and their son Anthony hit a little speed bump this week. They posted on Facebook how excited they were about baptism, and their family gave them some anti Mormon literature in return. They still met with us, and they seemed like they didn't really believe it but we were still able to talk it through with them, and they are still reading and praying about everything! They actually sent us a way sweet text a few days later thanking us for being genuine in caring about them, and for bringing the gospel into their life, and are grateful for all the blessings they have seen! I am so excited to see this family continue on their journey to be sealed as a family!
They are such wonderful parents and people, they are so ready for the gospel and all the blessings there!!
This week was also pretty full of meetings! We had interviews with the mission president, zone meeting, and stake conference! It was crazy busy, but I received so much revelation through our powerful leaders! At Zone Meeting, we talked about how to reach our goal of rescuing (bringing back less actives or baptizing converts) 170 more people in our stake boundaries! Wow crazy goal huh?! But you could really tell that the Zone leader and Sister training leader knew we could do it, and I know we can do it! In our area, we need to baptize 3 more people and rescue 15 less actives! So as many prayers you can give we need 'Em! I know that we can only reach his goal by wholly relying on the Lord and the enabling power of the atonement !! We receiving counsel on this from our stake president and an area Seventy Paul Sinclair. They talked about how the missionaries and the members need each other to reach this goal. The put a big emphasis in doing all that is in our power and truly pushing ourselves. But we also have to remember that the results are in Gods hands, we can only do our very best and wait for his arm to be revealed. I am so excited to be apart of something so incredible!!
I hope all is going well in all of your different activities! Just remember that you are a child of God!! Something I thought about this week is prayer. He wants to hear from you ! I know that prayer is so powerful, and we can truly ask for anything er stand in need of. It is a humble act, and we show our love for the Father as we tell him the desires of our heart! He will answer your prayers, I know it! Check out Alma 34:17-28 in the Book of Mormon!!
I leave you with my love and pictures of my shenanigans !!
Sister L
making apple cider!
First exchange in Montpelier with Sister Gillies
Sister Bishop
Sheep in someones's front yard
Us and Sister Baker and the
foreign exchange student from Germany we taught, Jonas!
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