Hi beautiful beloved friends
and family!!! :)
WOW what a week. I feel like I
always start my emails that way haha but there are so many blessings and
emotions that come with each week that I don't even really know where to begin
other than just saying how grateful I am. Me and Sister Garvin have been trying
to work with members as best we can and our efforts are finally starting to pay
off! Last Wednesday we got a call from a member in a ward randomly saying that
he has a friend that wanted to meet with us. Let's just talk about how HUGE of
a miracle that is. We were so excited when we were talking with him on the
phone that we didn't even ask his name but we went and taught him a lesson that
night and he is so prepared by the lord!!!! He quit smoking, came to church on
Sunday, and wants to be baptized. THE CHURCH IS TRUE. He is so incredible and I
am feel so humbled that the Lord trusts us with such a precious soul. On
Thursday we got up for our morning run and we have been trying to be the most
diligent obedient missionaries we can so we got up and started on our daily run
and it started to just down pour! at first we were like maybe we should go back
home...and then we were like NO we are not going inside we are going to
exercise and be obedient and then we came up with this saying: OBEDIENCE OR
DIE...or for short we say o.o.d. Hahahaha..got some weird looks but that's
nothing out of the ordinary :) Oh and I just have to say that I spilled
chocolate protein shake all over my big Preach My Gospel. Haha.. so that's
cool. no worries though I ordered a new one so life is okay again. We had a
member take us to lunch on Thursday and she took us to this place called the
Beachside Bistro and it was probably the best thing ever because I finally got
to see the ocean!!! From a distance of course. But I was so excited to just be
able to see and hear the waves. I can't wait to come back and be able to go in
the water someday! On Saturday we did some service for an investigator/ less
active family in their yard and it was hard work and super humid but we were so
happy to help them out and it looks so good! We did it with a recent convert
and a member of our ward (the recent convert is their home teacher) and it was
just a really great opportunity. On Saturday night we taught the investigator
we met on Wednesday from our member referral and took him on a church tour and
showed him the new Mormon Message that we are obsessed with (hope of Christ's
light) and he seemed to really enjoy it and we had a really good lesson with
him. Yesterday (Sunday) was probably the best day that I have experienced on my
mission this far. We had 4 investigators at church and 2 less actives.
HALLELUJAH!!! We were so overwhelmed with joy. Our zone leaders told us in our
call last night that our zone reached the highest number of member present
lessons in this past week than in all of our zone's history which is such a
blessing! It's so important to build the kingdom and not just maintain it. Last
night we had the opportunity to go to support the Hermanas at their Spanish
sacrament meeting and that was such an incredible experience! I'm pretty much
professional at singing hymns in Spanish in case anyone was wondering...I know
my older brother Matt will be happy to hear that :) It really was so cool
though. They had a program with the English translation for all the talks so we
could follow along in English and the spirit was so strong. The gospel is still
just as true in Spanish my amigos!! ;) This week really was so great and I am
so grateful to be able to help others come unto Christ because truly everyone
needs it no matter who they are, or what they are going through- the gospel of
Jesus Christ is the answer. Yesterday, a member of our ward Brother Kelly said:
"You can't judge people, it's just not right." I thought that was so
simple yet so profound :) Hope ya'll have a great week!
Love, Sister Carlson :)
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