It was such a fun week! Last week at the women's conference, I loved what they had said
about there being a seed of perfection inside of all of us because God
is the one who created us. How true is that, right? I spent all week
trying to live up to that. It's way hard to do, I mean I'd like to think
I was perfect, but being a missionary, you see how far we all are from
it. Like in conference this weekend how they said that in comparison to
God, all of us are pretty much the same. Which is too true. All of us
here have so far to go, but God is there, blessing us all the way! That's
what grace is all about. I am just so grateful for all I'm learning, because it is making
me see how much I really don't know, which helps me work harder on
bringing out that seed of perfection in me.
Tuesday was probably the happiest day of my life. We had zone
conference, because they had to install this thing called a tiwi in our
cars. It monitors ALL of our driving and yells at us when we're bad. Let's just say I drive like a grandma these days, because it just about
gives me a heart attack when I speed. Anyway, that's not the happy
thing. So, they had to rush these conferences while the people were here
to install the tiwi, so they split up a few zones to go to different
conferences. And because God is too nice and good to me always, he
sent Sister Slade and Rocha up to Amarillo to come see me!!! It was so
much fun. I had no idea they would be there until they pulled up and I
nearly passed out from being excited. It was fun to catch up on
everything! Plus, they're the STLs over Portales so they filled me in on
all my old investigators, which was good to hear.
Tuesday
night, we met with a less active member and her boyfriend who isn't a
member. We've been working with them a lot to help them get married. We
never actually told them to get married until this lesson though. We
watched a video from the women's session of conference about families
and then asked them to act on what God is asking them to do. They both
sorta flipped out and I just started BAWLING. Not out of being offended,
but just out of being sad that they were so scared of the spirit
telling them it was what they needed to do, that they had to scare it out
of the room. It just made me sad to see how much Satan truly is
attacking the family. It is precious to God, and something
we need to treat with respect. I am grateful that I have a family,
and it breaks my heart when people run from that blessing. But all hope
is not lost! Apparently my tears helped him change his mood a bit, and
they are talking about marriage now! I just pray that they go through
with it. Seeing one less broken family in this world will make my heart
soar!
Also, fun story. Well, not really a
story, but it made me smile. Our investigator who has come to church
like 7 times now in a row started saying "we believe" this week instead
of "you believe". She kept asking, "so what do we believe about this?" She is totally hooked now! I love it. She is really starting to
understand the restoration and is working so much harder at being able
to be baptized. Yesterday at conference, she didn't even need us! She
went with all the Spanish speakers to watch it, brought food for the
potluck, and had friends to sit with during the whole thing. My favorite
moments are when people realize they know what they are doing and they
don't need the missionaries to hold their hand anymore! They stay
strong, and let us go help other people:) although, we're not bailing
quite yet, she's got to get baptized first!
Our
investigators Janie and Doug are doing amazing! Keep them in your
prayers please:) Janie has a good old friend/boss who has talked to her
about the church for years now. He used to always say that she was just a
dry Mormon. She acted like one, just wasn't baptized yet! She emailed
him this week and told him that as of the 18th she will no long be a dry
Mormon! She was excited to tell him that. We just about died when we
heard that. They are doing so well, but just pray that they'll be ready
and worthy in time! It will be the last Saturday before Sister Ogles
goes home, so we want to make it happen before then:)
I
love you all and I hope you had an amazing conference weekend
celebrating Easter. I know I did! What a blessing it was to hear our
sweet prophet and apostles testify of the Savior on the day of His
resurrection. He lives, he loves us, and because he lives and loves us,
we have the restored gospel here on the earth today. That is our good
news and we need to share it with everyone!
Love ya,
Hermana Peck
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