Obedience,washing our sins down the sink! January 25. 2010

Hey mom!!!

This week was an interesting week. One of the 70's came and taught all day in our Zone Conference this week which was AMAZING. I learned so much and felt so uplifted. It was like being in the MTC all over again.

Thursday, the day after I worked the hardest and most intense than I have since I got here, I was so fired up from the conference. I contacted 60 people, taught 9 lessons and it was amazing. I love being a missionary and being guided by the spirit.

Also this week I had an awesome experience with my investigator that is preparing to get baptized. We taught her the word of wisdom last week and she told us she drinks coffee everyday all morning long, so we challenged her to stop drinking so she could get baptized. This week when we got there, I asked her how she was doing with dropping her coffee addiction and she said she was still drinking her coffee and that she didn't want to stop drinking and was asking what would happen with her baptism if she decided not to change. I began to share with her an experience where I knew the right thing I had to do but chose to follow my own will and do what I wanted and how I suffered until I chose to follow the Lords will and then taught her about obedience. At the end of the lesson she was unusually quiet and I was kind of worried, so I asked how she felt, what she was thinking and she got up and walked into the kitchen and said come here. So I followed her into the kitchen and she proceeded to dump her coffee, all the coffee grinds everything into the sink and washed it all down and then threw her coffee pot in the garbage and said, I want to follow Gods will. No one in this house will drink coffee ever again. Its been 3 days and she hasn't had any coffee. It was such an example to me, she immediately cast away her sins without even looking back. It definitely humbled me. How many times do we hold on to old sins because we don't want to change. I challenge all of you to think about your own lives, is there anything you need to wash down the sink?
I am teaching a lot or people right now who are incredible examples. The Lord is truly blessing me in finding the people prepared here.

I miss you all and love you but I may never come home.

Cuidanse mucho
hasta la proxima semana, todo de mi amor
Hermana Bloomfield