Week 62 - 14 months

Wow would you look at that...it's August already!! Which means I hit my 14 month mark....man I'm so old on the mission, I don't like it.

Okay well this week has just been sooooooo busy, we were constantly on the go, so I won't be able to write like half the things that happened this week but I'll start with some highlights:

We got a call from our mission office asking us to be in this thing called the Pre-Misison Traning Conference (PMTC). It's for all the 16-18 year olds in providence who are thinking about serving a mission. They asked us and our zone leaders to prepare some trainings for this conference and asked us to be on some Q & A panels.

So we had to do a lot of planning this week. We met with the Elders at our Senior couples house and for some reason we all just drew blanks on what we should train them on. We are used to training missionaries not priest and laurels so it was kind of hard to plan. We eventually got it planned... two hours later and the conference actually went really well, and the kids were awesome! It was a neat experience.

Oh awesome news, Jackie got her first calling!!!! She is now in the relief society activity committee. Jackie is doing so awesome. She came to our all district training meeting (ADTM) and bore her testimony in front of the whole zone and man I had goose bumps all over. The spirit was so strong as she bore her testimony.

We had some miracles this week! This one family, The James, I've been trying to meet with since I got to Nibley (so like 6 months ago). Well we saw their car in the drive way, but we drove passed it because we had a lesson to get to. Well turned out our lesson cancelled and we were about to just go tracting, but I just felt prompted to drive back to the James and knock. I was a little hesitant because I've knocked there a billion times and no one ever answers, but I followed the prompting. After we knocked 3 times they answered the door and let us in ALL THANKS TO THE HEAT, she didn't want her cool air getting out of her house. Well Sister Vea just asked them if we could teach them right then and there and the mom said yes since they weren't doing anything, so we began teaching. The mom and dad are both inactive and the 3 kids have not been baptized they are AJ (12), CJ (10), and TJ (10) yep really easy names. Well at the end of the lesson Sister Vea asked if they'd be baptized and the kids said yes and the mom said she wants them baptized. She told us how they used to go to church and that she wants to get back into it. It was a miracle that we met them and an even a bigger miracle that they want to be baptized!!!

It's been a busy week and we have an even busier week next week. Time just is flying. I can't believe Sister Vea's already been out 5 weeks. Oh yeah next P-day will be Wednesday because that's when transfers are (just to let you know). The scripture 1 Nephi 19:9 really stood out to me this week, it says,

"And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he Suffereth it; and they smite him, and he Suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he Suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men."

I LOVE this scripture. I've read it a lot this week. Jesus Christ 'Suffererth it' because of his infinite love for us. I realized as a missionary I need to "Suffereth it' because of my love for the people here in Nibley. Jesus Christ is the pure example of charity. I’m starting to really understand Jesus Christ as he was a missionary and the awful pain he went through because the people he loved so dearly rejected him. It can be hard as a missionary when we love this gospel so much and people reject it, but we 'Suffereth it' because we love them and want them to feel what we feel.

I don't know if any of that made sense, but that's what my thoughts were this week.

I love this gospel. I love Jesus Christ. And I love this work with all my heart.

Sister Lowe