Sunday, February 24, 2013

February 24, 2013



I hope you all have had a good week!!

This week has been pretty crazy. For the last 3 weeks we have been handing out invitations to a special Sacrament meeting that we had this week. Whenever we did any kind of street contacting or door knocking or anything, that's all we've handed out. We had high hopes that people would come! The members all brought heaps of food for afterwards (delicious island food... mmmm!!). Sister Paongo, a return missionary named Vine (pernounced Vee-nay) and I sang "I Need thee Every Hour" for a musical number. The senior missionaries in the ward, Elder and Sister Little, gave awesome talks! We were surprised and a little sad at the small amount of people that came, but I think that the people there on Sunday benefited from the topics discussed and the Spirit that was there.

We have had some fantastic lessons this week. Our investigators are amazing!! One such lesson was with Michael. We taught Michael the second half of the Restoration lesson. When my companion was quoting Joseph's Smith's experience in the Sacred Grove, I was just overwhelmed with the Spirit. What a privilege to be telling people about this. What is more important than this truth? Nothing! This is the most important message of all time - that God still loves His children and wants us to come back home. And He has provided a way to do it! Anyways, back to Michael. We  and asked him to pray about if this is the restored gospel. He said, "Well I already prayed about it." We were a little surprised, and he continued, "Well you had me read the introduction last time. And it says right there that if you pray you'll get an answer. I just read between the lines - you wanted me to pray about it." We asked him what his answer was, and he said, "It was a yes." WOOOOO!!!!! Michael has a baptismal date, that was set like a week or so ago. I'm so excited for him!!!! 

Life is good!! This ward is fantastic, and I'm blessed to have a fantastic companion. This work is amazing. I am so blessed to be a part of it. I know this gospel is true!! 

Also, the Auckland mission was divided to form a Hamilton mission and an Auckland mission. This won't affect our mission boundaries at all. So exciting, though!!

Have a great week! Love you all!
Sister Rose


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