Hello all of you wonderful people!!!
So move call..... dada da.....I'm in..............TAINAN! I am so excited!! I get to stay here in Dong Qu with Sister Gibson for another 6 weeks! This is also Sister Gibson's last move call so it is going to be sooo goood! Our entire apartment is all still here so we are all very happy and grateful :) Heavenly Father still has work for us to do here :)
This week was amazing!!!! We had so many incredible miracles and changes this week.......I don't even know where to begin!
First off, WJM :) She has still been doing so great, but smoking was the last thing she still needed to stop before baptism. Well we met with her Tuesday night and we were talking about how having more love and charity towards people. She also had her first testimony bearing experience with the other Sisters' investigator who was struggling to stop smoking. WJM bore her testimony that with help from God she could do it as she personally had come from smoking two boxes a day to only smoking 5 cigarettes a day. She loved bearing her testimony about it and we loved watching her do it.....I realized in that moment what a different person she is from when we first met her and what a beautiful daughter of God she has become. Anyways.....after ending our lesson with her she asked about us being here the end of November to see her get baptized. For a long time she has always talked about us being at her baptism and we hadn't ever told her we may move before the end of the month. We told her we didn't know if we would be as it was possible we were moving next week. All of a sudden she stopped, looked at us, and said, "If I stop smoking tomorrow, can you get everything ready for a baptism next week?" Well her faith sky-rocketed in that moment....we told her we weren't sure because she would have to completely stop smoking a week before her interview but we could see. She told us not to worry, she wanted us there at her baptism so she was going to stop smoking right then and there! We called President Bishop when we got home and he told us that it would probably have to be Nov. 17th at the earliest for her.......WJM was really upset when we told her there was still a chance we may not be there. She even said she didn't know if she could get baptized then if we weren't here. Well that worried us a little.....we wanted her to get baptized because she wanted to follow her Savior, not because of us. But when we prayed about her getting baptized then, we felt so at peace about it so we trusted that everything would be ok.
When we met with WJM again on Friday, she still hadn't smoked! She seemed really happy and had told us that she had already fasted that we would be able to be there at her baptism. As we were ending her lesson, she told us that she had realized that her desire for us to be at her baptism was selfish and that it was possible that the Lord needed us in other areas to help other people. She told us she had prayed and that although she would love for us to be there, she would get baptized on the 17th no matter what........we most definitely had a little freak out after she told us! We were so happy!!! This is exactly what we had been hoping for and this was why we felt so much peace as we prayed about it - Heavenly Father knew her faith was strong and that she was ready. So long story short.....President Bishop is meeting with her this Friday and if all goes well (which it definitely should :) ), she will be getting baptized next week! I can't fully explain everything she has changed and gone through to come to this point other than by saying that she has had to overcome problems with every baptismal interview question......so that's a lot of changes. Through her experience, I have learned even deeper that the Atonement can cover any pain and any sin. She loves her Savior and Heavenly Father and they love her. She is beginning her journey as a faithful, beautiful, daughter of God. :)
Miracle: We met a family on the road last Monday night as we were heading home. They set up to meet with us and we were so excited. When we called to que ding, the Dad told us his wife couldn't come anymore so it would just be him. We told him we wouldn't be able to meet with him if it was just him and asked him to ask his wife again. Twenty minutes later the entire family (husband, wife, and their two little boys) were at the church! The wife had a little bit of a Christian experience, but the dad hadn't ever had any religious background so she had to keep retranslating things to him that we had said. SDX began to understand the power of this message though and especially liked what he read from the B of M about praying in our families. We invited them to church the next day, but they said they weren't sure if they could come. We were sitting in Sacrament meeting and about 20 minutes in SDX walked in with both of his sons! He really liked Sacrament meeting and listened intently to all of the testimonies. I have so much faith for him and his family. They have a very close family relationship and I know S DX is coming to realize what a blessing this could be for his family. I feel that Heavenly Father has prepared him and I am so excited and pray that they will all be able to have the blessing of this Gospel in their family.
So there were so many wonderful things this week........I'm so grateful for miracles and for how much closer they bring us to heaven. He is in every part of this week and I could not do it without the help of my loving Heavenly Father and Savior. I pray that you will all be able to feel their love this week in your life and remember that they are always at your side to lift and guide you on this beautiful path of life.
THANK YOU THANK YOU for the numerous birthday letters!!! There was so much love in them and I am so grateful for such amazing family members and friends in my life! Love you all!
Sister J.
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