Hi Everyone!
I will apologize in advance because this week's email is going to be pretty short- we had some Da Liao members come visit today so our email time was a little shorter but it was super fun!!!
I am doing great!! Still learnin, yearnin, growin, cheerin every day :) This week in a nutshell:
- Our cute little 11 year old, was baptized on Saturday!!! She was SO nervous, like in tears, but then we were able to pray with her and she gave the sweetest pray that she wouldnt' be scared and she would know what to say in her testimony............my favorite moment of all was standing on the side of the baptismal font with Sister Belnap and watching Elder Long baptize her........the sweetest Spirit just ran over us- I will never forget it :) A child of God was baptized..........she almost didn't get baptized this week because she was still having a hard time with some things and Sister Belanp and I kept praying because we werent' sure what was right, but then she came to us on Wednesday at English and told us she wanted to change and if she wasn't being obedient then she wasn't being respectful to Heavenly Father- that was our answer :) The ward already has home teachers set up for her because we want to get her Dad more involved in the church too- she is an absolute miracle and I still can't believe we met her only a month ago.....now it's time to help her become truly converted and solid in growing up in the church!
-Met the Blickenstaffs!! They are super great- seem super young too! They want to be super involved with us and want us to be super involved with the wards- President Blickenstaff has a really great vision. He talked about the importance of visions then goals then plans. Really inspiring mission council to hear from all the Zone Leaders and the President's comments on everything.........church leadership is just super, duper cool. Sister Blickenstaff wants to come on exchanges with us and everything!! They both can speak Chinese pretty good and President Blickenstaff has a lot of cool experiences from him being a Stake President with the missionaries that he feels will help us. He definitely expects the best out of us..........can't wait to get to know them better!
- Our 17 year-old short time missionary this week was so great........she bore such a powerful testimony in so many of our lessons, but contacting was really hard for her. She was really, really tired by the end of the week and she seemed a little ready to be done, but then we were able to sit down and talk with her about what she had learned and felt and she really learned a lot about herself......being a missionary really does help you to see a lot of your faults but it also definitely makes you into a better person as well. We just bore testimony with her and encouraged her to keep on progressing and learning.........and by the testimony meeting with all the youth she was in tears.......she turned to us at the end and just hugged us so tight- I almost cried. She is so special and I really hope she will always remember this experience and that she will serve a mission because I think she would be incredible :) Sister Belnap and I talked about how much this taught us about raising kids- when to push them out of their comfort zone and when to not.........we definitely probably could have done more, but it was a great experience to help me learn how to be a good mother in the Gospel :) (How did you do it parents??? :) )
Well my time is up.... I love you all!!!
With our adorable short term missionary!
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