Hey! July
1st 2013
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO EVERYBODY !!!
Time is just flying
faster and faster. It was just Monday and here it is...Monday again! This last
week has been great! It has been HOT but honestly, you don't really notice when
you are teaching the Lord's Gospel. Yesterday it was about 110 and it was just,
oh well. 90 is super uncomfortable but once it’s over
100 it is just hot so that has been good and I am actually really enjoying the
heat! I know, crazy but we are just
starting so we have to get used to it fast!
We have seen so much
progress with our investigators this week and seen some neat miracles! One of
our investigators, the 18 year old, we had a very spiritually powerful lesson
with him and we know he felt the spirit but he is kind of hiding from it. Which
is sad to see but he isn't giving up on finding out if God is really there or
not. We had another investigator who
was struggling to come to church but did come yesterday so that was good to
have her there. There is an older man
that we are teaching who is so ready and willing to hear what we say. We
invited him to be baptized but he said he needs to know more and he would pray
about it! It is amazing to see how the lord prepares people to hear his Gospel
and only more and more people are being prepared! This really is the Last days!
We had a neat
experience. A former investigator that we were teaching and that had just
disappeared one week, his name popped into my head so we went to visit him and
he really needed us right then and was trying to find God and how to be a
better person and things so we talked to him and hopefully we will be able to
start teaching him again and he is amazing! So ready and so cool to feel how
the Lord works through us!
This week, we get to meet with our new mission president, Brother Wilson and his wife, and find out who our other sisters are that we
will be doing exchanges with! We are super excited to meet him and to be able
to work with him and help the mission move forward! It is crazy to start in one
mission and end in another but I am so grateful to the Lord for him trusting me
to put me in this calling and for him helping me to magnify it the best I can!
We had one exchange this week that was really good and have a couple more this
week and at least 2 every week for the rest of the transfer! I love exchanges and being able to train and
learn from the amazing sisters! They are so amazing and love the Lord so much
and are doing their very best!
My companion is
amazing! I love her so much! Sister Dyreng has an amazing desire to serve the
Lord and she works hard so we get a lot done which is wonderful! Her and I get along very well and I have
learned so much from her already and it's only been 2 weeks. She has an amazing
talent of talking to people and that has been helping me to branch out even
more to talk to people! She is great! She has really been helping me to focus on the
Savior and testify more of him which is exactly what I needed!
I had kind of a shocker the other day. I was thinking about
the beginning of my mission and where I had been thus far and it hit me like a
ton of bricks that I don't have very much time left. It was quite disturbing
honestly. I couldn't believe it and how
fast it had gone! It just made me
grateful to be out here serving the Lord and helping to move His work forward.
I am so grateful for the Gift of the Holy Ghost! It really is one of the
greatest gifts possible and just brings so much peace and comfort! I love the
Gospel and we are so blessed to have what we have and to know our purpose in
this life! Don't forget to share your testimony with someone this week....or in
fast and testimony meeting :)! It is a
wonderful chance to bless someone else as well as strengthen your own! I love
you so much and miss you!!! Sister Haws
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