Loving the Sunshine

Hi Friends and Family,
 
This past week has been such a great week and I am so thankful to be here!!  The work in our area is going so great, and we have had the opportunity to do allot of teaching this week. I always think the first day of your mission is very meaningful and is forever imprinted in your mind. I wanted to be able to have sister Sadlier to have a great day and be able to see how great doing the work is. We had an appointment with the Snow family that night who is a L/A part member family. When we got there her non member husband met us outside to let us know she was going to be cancelling which is the end turned out to be a blessing as he stood outside and talked to us about his feeling and the church. He does all the commitments that we leave with his wife and he talked to us about some of the hang ups that he has with the LDS religion. It was great to be able to talk and testify about our beliefs and why we do some of the things we do. I know that Ryan will understand as his wife comes back and he will join the church. We tracked next which was so great as we were able to get 3 or so potentials. It was a great evening and I am thankful for the experience.

Friday we met with Erica and taught her about prayer and most of all talked about whether or not she is going to be baptized this upcoming Saturday. She is in this sticky situation with the guy she is currently dating as he wanted to be there but there is no way he is going to make it. Does not look like he will be in Alaska for a long time so we talked to her about the importance of moving forward and not putting this off as it is so important. She is praying about it and we are praying she will understand the importance and keep her date to get baptized this Saturday the 23rd.
We also had a lesson with Kiara on Sunday and were able to follow up with her about baptism. She is so excited to be baptized and is looking forward to the 30th. She talked about an experience that week with repenting and it was so amazing to see her apply the repentance to her life and see it work.  I love how excited she is to make this commitment with her heavenly father and how much it means to her.  We also had another great experience at church with the Lewis family bringing their neighbor. Her name is Kristin and she is great. We have a appointment with her this week and we are both really excited to start teaching her. 
 
I hope you are all doing well and know how how much I love you!!
 
Love,
Sister Booth
Location: Anchorage, AK, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Does it really have to end?

Hi Family!   So mom, you thought that last week was going to be my last email, but surprise you get ONE more! President Beesley decided to let all the missionaries email on Tuesday because of the holiday. It is interesting how different mission president's are and the things they do that are not the same at all.  We have had the pleasure of getting to know him and his wife this last week and I must say the one thing I have heard the most is "I cannot believe how much different she is from Sister Dance!" I just have to chuckle as of course they are going to be different and I am sure they will be amazing in their own way. He is a pretty achieved person from his previous life, he was a test fighter pilot so he has shown us a couple of video's of him flying F-16's and some other fighter jets. It is pretty crazy to think that is what he did and now he is a mission president.   What a great week of laboring with the lord! I love being able to serve my mission ...
Read more

Being in the right place at the right time.....listen to the spirit!!!

Dear Friends and Family,   What a wonderful week! There could not be any better way to end a week then to witness two people get baptized.  The baptism were so wonderful and to feel the spirit of both of them was great. I just love seeing both of their faces as they came out of the water and to see the light and joy in their eyes! We also had the opportunity to start teaching two new people this week. One of them is a special circumstance given from out ward. His name is Justin Tabbilos and the ward found out that he did not have a baptismal record at all even though we all thought he had been baptized. Well come to find out he was baptized in the Philippians and they never recorded it with the church and they could not track down the witnesses for the baptism either. It was pretty sad as I am sure he does not want to go through the process again. The ward talked to him and he decided as he is ready for the priesthood to go through the process so he can have his record i...
Read more

Something you said stuck with me.....

Hi Friends and Family,   This past week has been such a good week! It feels like such a bitter sweet to think that I have only two weeks left. I was saying a prayer yesterday and told my heavenly father that I would stay here another year if he would just let me. The goodness of sharing the gospel and seeing the light in people's eyes and just working each and everyday is ever so rewarding even with the trials that come right along with it. I love this work and I could not be more than thankful to the opportunities I have had to be here and to know the people of Alaska.   This week we had an experience of teaching a new person who's name is Dale, this experience was pretty neat in the way that we met. The Sunday before last we were contacting people on the ward list that we did not know to bring them back to church and were going to contact a lady named Cindy. Well when we knocked on the door a gentlemen in I would say his 40's or 50's answered the door. Of cou...
Read more