What's up all?! Hope you are all doing well, enjoying
life to the fullest and smiling through the good and bad days!! This week I
have seen so many blessings and the miracles from the hand of God each and
every day and encourage you each to keep recognizing those and thank God for
the blessings he has given you. It makes a difference! Ready for the synopsis
of the week? Here we go:
Tuesday (22): I woke up and decided to climb out of the
self pity hole of sadness I dug for myself and decided to trust God with ALL my
being. I prayed that even though I am not perfect or know exactly what to do
that I will just rely on the spirit and trust God will lead me to those ready
to hear. And guess what?! A willing heart and smile to do what the spirit
directs goes a long way. We were able to go tracting and meet SO many prepared
souls and it was so awesome to just bear testimony and meet so many great
people. A lot of them were super nice blackies and I just love them all so
much!!! Ahhh!! Also Elder Scott who I've come to learn a lot about through my
BYU-I class and loved deeply, passed away. I'm so happy he gets to be reunited
with His wife. His funeral is today (the 28th) and we will be watching
that:)
Wednesday (23): more knocking doors in faith and more
success. We met this awesome guy- Ricky from Jamaica and had almost an hour
long discussion about the gospel with Him and help him see how much God loves
him and how our church is different and it was SWEET!!!
Thursday (24): we had zone conference and Sis. Johnson
(mission president's wife) talked about the story of Peter walking on water and
how we are like that. We have to continually have our eyes fixed on Christ even
when we start to freak out. It was when Peter took His eyes off Christ and
noticed the bad that he started to sink. Also we were encouraged to invite our
wards as well as ourselves to have a specific date to find someone by for the
missionaries to teach. I'm excited to try this out I just know great things
will happen!!
Friday(25): we were able to teach a black girl named
Chantelle and we had a good discussion about the priesthood and prophets. It
was awesome to testify boldly of the true gospel restored and that we do have a
prophet today! :) also we went to a baptism for the other sisters (teng he's chinese-
pronounced tongue) and sis Hansen and I were in charge of picking out the fake
flowers for decoration. Sister Hansen goes "these are great they look Chinese don't ya think?!"
Hahaah! I love that sister!! She's so fantastic!
Saturday (26): we went to the Penn State football game!
It was SO FUN!
Sister Busath also got transferred and now we have sis.
Duncan who has like 4 months left but she's super sweet and from New Mexico!
Sun (27): we had a great sacrament meeting and after Bro
Wilson (branch mission leader) comes running up to us and says I need you
Sisters now! So we follow him not knowing what to expect and he introduces us
to this awesome guy who just showed up to church and wants to meet with us to
learn more
I'm so excited for conference and encourage you all to
tune into the Saturday and Sunday sessions and think of questions before hand
you need answers to I know you'll find the answers you need. Have a great week
guys:)
~Sister McDonald
I so miss that girl!
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