Magandang Umaga!!!
This week was just awesome! Wow... I
knew that the Lord was Hastening His Work, but now I am really experiencing it!
Our area is finally flourishing and the ward is really getting on-board with
missionary work. One miracle is happening after another!!!
Well, it's transfer week and
yesterday my sweet companion, Sister Ramos, died.... Noooooo.... I hate killing
missionaries! She served such a faithful 18 months though and I learned so much
from her. And tomorrow I get my new companion- Sister Verdeflor!!! She is
sooooo amazing!! She was an STL in Cainta and now we get to serve as STLs
together! Wahooo!!! She's Filipina and super sweet, so I cannot wait!!
Because I had no companion
yesterday, I got to go on splits with Eunice, one of our ward missionaries. Our
afternoon was filled with 6 appointments and all of them accepted firm
baptismal dates!
Our investigators are doing great!
We are teaching a 29 yr old named Karen who is the live-in partner of a less
active. She came to church two weeks in a row and she loves it. We have really
been focusing with her on the Book of Mormon, but she finds it a bit difficult
to understand because she has never read the Bible and is not familiar with
anything like that. Yesterday I had the opportunity to teach her and we followed
up on the assignment we'd given her in 3 Nephi 11. She didn't understand it,
and so we decided to read it with her. There is nothing more powerful than
reading the Book of Mormon with investigators. As we read verse by verse,
stopping to discuss, Karen felt the Spirit so strongly and she even applied it
to herself. The chapter went on talking about baptism. She looked up and told
us sincerely that she felt that she needed to be baptized... And she accepted a
baptismal date! Ahh, it was so powerful!!
We also had a lesson with Cattleya
who we have been teaching for about a month. She still had not received an
answer about Joseph Smith being a prophet, and so we read together from Joseph
Smith history. She really saw herself in Joseph Smith because she is feeling so
lost and confused right now. I asked her if we could all get down on our knees
and ask Heavenly Father if he was a true prophet. As Cattleya prayed, she
really felt the Spirit and was able to recognize that as her answer that this
church really is true.
Those are just a few of the amazing
things that are happening here in the field!!! Thanks for all of your fasts and
prayers. I cannot wait to see what this transfer has in store!! Heavenly Father
really is a God of miracles.
Love you all!!
Sister Anderson
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