So many random things to say.
I'll start with our investigator Stephanie. We put her on date for November 5th! We fasted and prayed hard for that date, and as soon as we said it, Stephanie said that was her year anniversary of when her Grandfather passed away. How would we have known that? We didn't. But Heavenly Father sure did! We testified to her that we know her grandfather would want her to do this (He was a member) and that Heavenly Father chose this date for her. She accepted. Yahoo! Right? Nope. Not yet. So yesterday she came to conference and right before the sunday morning session she came up to us and said that she can't be baptized. She's not ready and not sure if she will ever be because of some personal struggles she's been going through (she's had a rough past, I'll leave it at that). But we told her to not make any decisions, listen to conference, and listen to what the spirit says to her. Guys. She cried during the whole first session. The spirit worked SO much on her. Especially in Linda S. Reeve's talk about repentance. She is officially now set for November 5th. This is the Lord's work. These are his children. We didn't convince Stephanie to stick with her date, the Lord did. Man, I love being apart of His work. He has his hand in it so much.
One of my fave talks from Conference was President Uchtdorf's. He gave us the challenge to just sit in awe, and ponder the Lord's plan for His children. Last night I did just that and in our lesson we sang the song "How Great Thou Art" the lyrics it says, "I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder. Thy power throughout the universe displayed." Isn't it crazy how HUGE the world is? He created the stars, the moon, the GALAXY. Yet his greatest and most beautiful creation was you and me. We are his WORK and GLORY. (Moses 1:39) All of it was created for us. Oh man we take things for granted don't we?! I'd love to invite everyone to pray to their Heavenly Father and thank him for all that he has done. He created this beautiful world for us, he gave us families, he gave us this gospel so that we can live happy lives. WE HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR!
Fun facts of the week:
1. Elder Kazuhiko Yamashita's talk in Conference, he spoke about an Elder Cowan and he served in my ward! The whole ward has been talking about it, apparently he's a legend and served for like 7 months here. And he's cousins with my companion!
2. We did service at Stephanie's and a huge rock fell from the roof and hit my nose haha. It's swollen as with a few cuts so that's been a conversation starter for finding investigators! Don't worry mom, I'm all good. Just going to bypass pictures of that this week if you don't mind ;)
3. Last night us and the Elders had dinner with Bro. Kalonihea our Ward Mission Leader. They're tongan and they made me eat so much haha. More than any of the other missionaries because I'm white and they're all Poly haha. What a punk. He swears he's gonna make me gain 50 kilos
4. Video is of our lesson with Stephanie last night with our ward member Bro. Sadler. Him and my comp are singing How great thou art in Maori. They're so cool.
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