High Winds

Another week of intense missionary work. You know the biggest thing I love about being out here is that I get to talk with so many different people and see how their lives are and what has made them, them. It's so cute but a very humbling experience as well. The more I do this missionary thing the more I see how becoming like Christ is essential in our journey back to our father.

We visited this lady this week who is a less active in our ward. She was been going through so many hard things lately it's so crazy and I feel so bad for her She said that her faith disappears when times like this happen and I couldn't help but feel her pain and feel the need for my companion and I to stress the importance to never turn away from the Lord when trial and adversities come into our lives, but to turn out and grab His and that is so willingly stretching out for our grasp. We need to immerse ourselves in the Lord's unconditional loves. It will always be there never faded. you will never be forgotten in His eyes. For some reason that is hard for us to grasp but it is true and the book is blue. President Henry B. Eyring gives a top notch talk about this- called Mountains to Climb (look up the mormon message)http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages. I think he says is perfectly "If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing." With God anything is possible. I loved in Mosiah 24:14 it says  "And I will also ease the ^aburdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as ^bwitnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their ^cafflictions." It's cool how everything works when you put your faith to work.

 

This week we had an amazing investigator and it was so great the first lesson we had we committed him to baptism! Oh it was awesome he was so excited to learn more and it made so much sense to him. You could tell he was ready to learn more. When we scheduled another lesson with him he invited us to come by his house that same night so Sis. McClimans and I stopped by right before our dinner appointment and he had his brother there and his church leader. I was fallen out of my seat I couldn't even fathom what was going on. Right before we left we wanted to leave a spiritual thought with them so we pulled our a scripture. Introduced them to the book of Mormon and then they just started to ask us more questions. It was really cool and a good experience we got their information and everything was like sooo good then a couple days later when it was time to have our next lesson with this guy he never showed up... then we waited the next day, rescheduled.. then we get this text and hour before our lesson and he says this isn't for me. ohhhh this was so devastating, no, no, no this can't be happening. That's all that I was thinking. Like you don't know what your are turning away from! Stop in your tracks! but no it's okay really it is everything will work out the way the Lord needs it to and I trust that he will find it someday, somehow. So that was a little devastating of the week. but everything else it going really well I feel like things are coming along and we are going to find more people to teach.

 

There was a high speed storm yesterday I almost got picked up and blown around the church parking lot. But it's fine, I didn't. So usually when I am being overreacting about wind and saying there is tornado up in here... well when I was saying it this time it was for real... There was really a tornado going on. It didn't get close enough to us but of my it was so windy. I am loving being a missionary it's great and such a blessing to be out here.  I hope you all have a great week. God bless!

 

Keep on, Keepin on--- Sister Tincher :)