Everything happens for a reason

Hello family and friends!!! 

Whoa this week. Was. Grand. 

I think I say that every week. I may need to figure out some new starters. But who has time for that. 

So we got to meet with some wonderful investigators. One of whom is named Tammy. She is a SWEETHEART, so willing, so driven and so in tune with the will of The Lord. I am humbled by her example to do good. We taught her a couple times this week, and she has really been trying hard to cut her habit of smoking, she told us every time she get a nudge to do it she gets really frustrated and wants to start, but as she remembers to pray and ask for strength the temptation leads, and then she reads the Book of Mormon to distract and calm her down. I know that this is the formula we can all do as we are trying to avoid temptations, and are trying to reach our potential as disciples of Christ. 

We had two investigators at church on Sunday!! Whoo hoo!! It was really great, Tammy requested a priesthood blessing to receive strength, so powerful. She. is .elect. That's all I am going to say. We then studied about the Sabbath day and Shana our other investigator texted us later that night requesting to learn more about honoring the Sabbath. Who knew being a missionary would be so rewarding. 

So last night something pretty cool happened. We headed out after a dinner appointment and to the city where we were going to visit some less actives. When we all of a sudden had to head back to our apartment to grab something we forget. I was pretty upset. We had a good evening planned, and I didn't want to head pall the way back, but we needed to. So we finally get the things we needed and head out the door to finish our day, but we only had time to really stop by and get wifi to sync our iPads. The whole time I am just a little put off, but I am thinking everything happens for a reason, something is going to happen. Well as we are sitting waiting for things to download this guy comes up and says, "is there a church around here!" We are like, um what!? Turns out he is a member, but hadn't been to church in years. He wasn't even on the ward list! He was willing to meet with us, so we set up an appointment and gave him the info about church it was really cool! So really, everything happens for a reason.

So this week was full of spiritually uplifting and motivation experiences. Lovin life, the mission is great, hard work, but the kind of work you say to yourself it's worth it. 

I guess for my spiritual thought;) for today is... "mortal life, glorious as it is, was never the ultimate objective of God’s plan. Life and death here on planet Earth were merely means to an end--not the end for which we were sent." Russel M. Nelson

Life here on earth is a blessing we can experience. It is something to cherish and do something with, but it's really just an experience we need to take with us after this. Just like a trial is in this life. We are give a trial to learn from to make the future better for us because we learn how to react better. The same goes for this life and it's role in helping us for more than this.

I love you all and I hope you have a really good week! 

God Bless you! 

Love, Sister Tincher 

Me saying hi