A couple things that President Smith has asked us not to do is like having family members post pictures and tag us in them. Also posting our weekly on facebook and then tagging out accounts. They have asked us not to do that.
Okay so a little about my week! First off sorry that I didn't send any pictures of my greenie and I. This first week has been crazy!!
I'm just going to give y'all some of the big highlights of my week. So phones is obviously a big thing. It's been awesome and so easy to study and share messages with our investigators! Also received some awesome news!! So Elder southway and I found this girl back when we were companions together in Daphne Alabama. We taught her for a month or more and then we just were not able to meet with her. I started up volleyball in that ward and made sure it kept going after I left. So the girl we found ended up being friends with an awesome youth member in the ward who also goes to volleyball. Turns out our investigator went to volleyball and the Elders were able to get in contact with her again and she accepted the invite to be baptized!! When Elder southway and I got that text saying she accepted the baptismal invite, him and I both screamed like little high school girls hahaha. We were so excited!!!! Fruits from our labors were starting to pay off.
Second highlight of this week. We had a guy walk into church today and I just greeted him and could tell that he was New. So I got to talking to him and turns out it was his first time coming to church! He told me " I was in salt lake city about two weeks ago and I went to temple square. I met with missionaries there and they gave me a tour all around the place. Also got to talk to a Mormon bishop for an hour and a half. It was amazing. I could tell there was something different about Mormons. They are just so happy and full of light. Before I left a missionary gave me a Book of Mormon and I read about 100 pages while on my flight back home. I'm just about done with second Nephi. Oh also one big thing that really interested me about the Mormon church was about the priesthood! Also about the laying on of hands and how the gift of the holy ghost is given by that priesthood power. Oh and Joseph Smith receiving the plates and being able to translate them by the gift and power of God! It's amazing and when I was reading the Book of Mormon i just felt this power, this energy that just made me want to keep reading. I felt something but I didn't know what it was. I felt it when I talked to the missionaries in salt lake. I also felt it when I met with the Mormon Bishop."
Okay you can tell at that moment my mouth dropped to the ground.... I felt like it was a prank but it wasn't. He also said " yeah they told me to go to LDS.org and I would be able to find the local ward that I could attend so I chose to come this one." I was filled with so much happiness the entire day!! He stayed 3 hours! And then he also stayed for the pot luck after. He got to church at 11am and didn't leave until 3:30pm. We set a return appointment with him for later this week. He was super excited to meet with us again.
It's just so amazing to see how Heavenly Father leads and guides his children to the truth and prepares them to receive the restored gospel. Ugh the church is so true y'all. The spirit that was felt the entire day on Sunday was amazing.
There was also a baptism Sunday night. One of the Spanish missionaries had a baptism. So it was cool because I got to interview her for baptism. It was cool to have a translator there and being able to see how the gospel of Jesus Christ is for all his children. Oh also on top of the guy walking into church the sisters got a call from a guy who wanted to know where the Mormon church is and how he wants to learn more... haha I don't know what's happening here but I'm liking it! 🤣
We also had an amazing experience with one of our investigators who we haven't been able to meet with for a long time. So long story short we shared about families and temples. Testified of eternal marriage and eternal families and her heart was full of love and happiness. But the coolest part was tell her for some reason these words came to my mind and I told her this, " (investigators name) you are literally a daughter of God, your identity isn't just (investigators name) but your identity is that you are a daughter of the most high God. Your divine potential is limitless!" What I said came from the holy ghost and it pierced her heart. She said how she is living her life now off that principle and how that brought her so much peace and love and happiness. She then went and posted about that on facebook. It was awesome to see how I could be used as an instrument in the Lord's hand. I know that this is the only true and living church on this earth that is guided and directed by the Lord himself. I KNOW that Jesus Christ lives and that Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration. The Lord used him as an instrument to bring to pass the restoration of his gospel and his truths and his glory. I know that the Book of Mormon is in deed the word of God, and who ever would abide by its precepts and hearken unto its words that you would grow closer to God and his beloved son Jesus Christ.
I love you all and I am grateful for all y'all do for me!
Before I send this I'm also going to tell you a funny experience I had hooking up the sisters dryer in their apartment. So I was behind their dryer because we just put in a new one for them. As I was rewiring it they had this fire extinguisher hanging on the wall behind the dryer. So as I was down on my knees rewiring the dryer all of a sudden the 10- 15 pound fire extinguisher falls off the wall and lands on my left shoulder blade! It hurt so bad! I just stayed on the ground for a minute. My companion like quickly grabbed a bag of frozen green beans and put them on my shoulder. So after all that I get home and take my shirt off and just have this huge like half circle on my back with a big bump with a cut down the middle of it. You could say that kinda sucked but it was super funny now not really in the moment haha. 🤣
gotta love the mission! Haha 
We just took a picture so here's my new greenie I'm training 
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