Happy Birthday to me :)

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a really good day. I ate dinner with the senior couple in the YSA as well as a few of the YSA members. We also we're able to meet this really sweet guy named Sam who is working on going to the temple. He said he really wants to take his family to the temple. He just had such a clear direction on where he wanted to go. It was really great to see!

John is totally getting baptized this week! He was interviewed on Sunday and is all set. It's really awesome because his whole family is coming to see it and they're all non-members! I hope that they'll feel the spirit! How can they not? John is so amazing. I'm so proud of him and so grateful for this decision he is making. He's already talking about the temple so it's good that he's set his sights on that.

On Friday we had a really great lesson with our Elders Quorum President. We went over to share a missionary message about the Book of Mormon. As we were talking about it he told us that he'd been working with his neighbor and was like "You know what? I think he's actually home right now. I'll go give him a Book of Mormon right now!" Then he just gets up and walks out and about 5-10 minutes later he comes back in and tells us all about how open his friend was. It was amazing and totally blew us away! And it only worked because he showed genuine love for him. If we had just been tracting his neighbor's house he would have never let us talk to him. And while he was gone we were able to have a good conversation with his wife who had desires to do missionary work, but is a stay at home mom and wasn't quite sure how. We were able to help her game plan and she decided that she'd try and make friends with someone at the library during toddler time and over the course of their friendship she'd try and share the gospel with them. It truly is easy to share the gospel if our motivating reason for doing it is because we love God and we love the person we are sharing it with. It was a really awesome lesson to learn and has increased my faith.

We also went on exchange with our Sister Training Leaders which was lots of fun. I learned a lot and am grateful for those sisters and their service.

This week has been kind of a hard week. I've also been sick and went to the doctor on Friday and found out that I have Bronchitis. I'm on antibiotics now and spent of majority of my Saturday sleeping. I'm feeling a lot better now though, although still kind of tired. However I know that the Lord is still looking out for us and we're still seeing some tender mercies along the way. I know that this gospel is true and I'm so grateful for that knowledge. Thanks for all your support!

-Sister Morrill