How is my family doing?! I love
getting emails from you all and it sounds like you are doing good! Mom and Dad,
don't party too hard this week with no one at home! haha
Oh man! So I am super stressed today
cause we have been running around like mad women trying to get everything done
and we had to sit here and wait for computers at the Library for 2 hours since
we didn't come first thing this morning... so I'm trying to relax a little. The
Lord is helping me gain patience. I am with a Hermana for 2 days until Transfer
meeting because I dropped Sister Draeger off at the mission home this morning.
:( It was really sad saying goodbye)
Dad, I did get your email last week!
It was something I needed to hear, so thank you for sending it again! I love
you!
So It sounds like everyone is doing
well back home! I heard about the fires in Utah! I hope y'all are safe and
sound! Have you heard about the Hurricane that was headed our way here in
Houston and just moved towards Florida? Now instead of the hurricane warnings
this week we have heat warnings... :/ It's supposed to be around 105-110. I'm
not looking forward to it.
Last week Sister Draeger and I saw
the biggest miracle of our transfer. We had been praying soo hard all transfer
to have a baptism in our area before Sister Draeger left, and we have a few
people that are very close, but didn't quite make their date for last saturday.
So we were talking one night about Thomas --the man that I went fishing
with in South Shore who has been taught for 9 months now-- and how we were sad
that his wedding had been cancelled so we weren't expecting him to get baptized
on the 23rd of June like we had set for. Well right as we were talking about
that we get a call from the assistants saying, Thomas was getting baptized! His
wedding still went through! And it's a pure miracle because 1. Sister Draeger
found Thomas when she was in South Shore a year ago. 2. Because she was my
companion this transfer we were both able to go to the baptism. (Because we
have a rule that you can only go to your investigators baptisms from previous
areas if it's within the transfer after you leave.) And I just couldn't believe
it because although we didn't get a baptism in our area the Lord still provided
because we had been praying so hard for one.
Alyssa was a girl I found last
transfer in South Shore with Sister Atterton also got baptized with Thomas! It
was great to see how far she had progressed. :) And this 15 year old boy was at
the baptism with a friend who is a member and he came up to me and said he
wanted to be baptized! It's so cool to see how fast the work is moving along.
:)
We have Jonatan' baptism this
Saturday and we are sooo excited for him! He is the 8 year old of the recent
convert, Christina. We have been teaching him since we got here in this area,
and he knows a whole lot more than I knew when I got baptized. :) I'm really
excited for him.
Last week I went back to Memorial
area again for a day because Sister Draeger had her departing temple trip. That
was my 4th time in Memorial. It was fun to see the people there progressing as
well.
Sorry if this email is jumping
around lots, my brain hasn't had a break all day and I can't think straight.
Another cool experience from this
past week was visiting Yeni. She is an investigator who is from Nigeria. She
had just found out that her aunt passed away right before we came over so she
wasn't herself at all. We shared a conference talk with her on the plan of
salvation and then she asked us if we could stay awhile with her because she
didn't want to be alone (her husband just passed away 4 months ago and her son
is in Utah for the Summer). So we sat with her for a while and then we starting
singing hymns to her. The spirit was really strong, and she wept for a while
while we sang. I definetly felt like the Savior would have been doing the same
thing with her if He were here himself. Sister Draeger and I talked afterwards
how grateful we are that the Savior trusts us to use us as his hands. We are
lucky to see what we see daily. Not many people get to see all the miracles the
Lord provides daily for his children. He loves us all!
Noo is another investigator we have.
She has came to church twice and has a baptismal date set for the 21st of July,
but we may be moving it up! She is awesome! She is from Thailand, and she was
married to a LDS man. But they got divorsed because he cheated on her... :/ We
found her when we were out biking one night. She got soo excited when she saw
there were sister missionaries haha. She told us the other night when she had
us over for dinner that right before we went up to talk to her that night we
found her she had said a prayer to have the Lord help her with her son and
knowing what to do to get his life on track. She knows the Lord answered her
prayers through us. I can't wait to see progress even more!
The work is definetly moving onwards
fast. We find people, seek for their intent, and teach those willing to follow
our Savior. Unfortunately there are lots who don't have that desire.
Oh! So I told y'all that I've been
studying the light of Christ. Well I have another cool analogy. So everyone has
been given a lamp, and it's up to us to obtain the oil so it can have light.
Well as missionaries we get to carry around a flame (the gospel) and there are
lots of people around that don't have the oil in their lamp and we try and try
to light their lamp, but they haven't been prepared for the gospel yet because
they haven't had the desire. Then there are those who carry around their lamp
with a little oil in it that can be lite for a while but then it goes out because
they didn't really want it. And then there are the elect who have the lamps and
they are full of pure olive oil just waiting for us missionaries to find them
and light their lamps so they can be prepared for the Lord to come.
I love you all soo much and pray for
you daily! Pray for me as I bring a new companion to our area this week. :)
Erianne
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