E-Mail #63
August 27th, 2012
Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful week. I had a wonderfully trying week, but i think thats EVERY week of missionary work! Well this week was exciting for Rae, she got her temple recomend!! woohoo! she is also currently in Southern Utah....actually in KANAB! haha, how funny is that. A group from her school is doing volunteer work down there. She was hoping to go to the St. George temple, but probably wont be able to, but she plans on going to the Las Vegas temple! I am so excited for her! Her first time in the temple, and it will be down there. haha. She is just such an amazing person. Her testimony is so strong and she really just lets her light shine to EVERYONE around her. I know that her friends and co-workers and school mates can just see the difference in her. She just glows that girl does! This week we started to teach a couple that is a part-member family. The husband is just so ready for the gospel, he comes every other sunday to church and he has the glow going on! We asked him to let us teach him and he agree'd so this week was the beginning. I know that if he seeks sincerely that he will find out the truth and he will come closer to our Father in Heaven. Its just so exciting to be teaching! We also got to see a person we were teaching and helping progress toward baptism, that like ditched us for over a week, and then we went to see her again and she was totally willing and ready to keep learning. So we are excited to see how things go. Everytime we are ready to just stop trying Heavenly Father gives us enough to say keep going! So we will see what he has in store for this wonder Daughter of his. I know if she really finds out the truth of the Gospel that she will be an amazing member! So i'm sure that is what he has in store for her!
This week we had zone conference! I LOVE ZONE CONFERENCE! Its just so great to be together as missionaries, to be a strong force together and to feel the spirit so strong! Zone Conference was a lot about taking to things we know and are true and writing it on the table of our heart. So not just being we know the gospel but we will LIVE it because its in our heart. Which was such a great topic for my 2nd to last zone conference because the time i have left i really want to make sure it IS written on my heart. That everything i have learned and continue to learn will go with me when i go home. That i will truely be a better disciple and representative of Jesus Christ. That i really will live his gospel always to the best of my abilities. I am thankful so much for the testimony that i have gained. I wish everyone had the testimony i have ( or better of course) But its just amazing what happens on a mission, its pretty cool. Everyone should serve a mission.
This weekend we were home all weekend because my comp has been super sick. Which totally stinks! BUT i did read A TON of the Book of Mormon. I started in the beginning and i made it all the way through alma chapter 4. Thats a pretty sweet accomplishment for 2 straight days of being home. Although yesterday i didn't read NEARLY as much as i did saturday. But still, way awesome! At zone conference an elder talked about reading the Book of Mormon in a month. So i am going to take that challenge. I have a pretty good head start, but it will be tough when i dont have the excuse of being home all day so i can read. haha.
Well im having some problems attaching some pictures. So no love this week as far as that goes. But do know that i love all of you a ton! Have a great week!
Sister Barnum
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