Dearest Family,
Week two in Bartlett. Our trio is actually a blast. It feels like
we've been together for much longer than a week and a half. Sister
Bridgewater has us constantly laughing. We've noticed that we are all
completely different but somehow it all works
out. Also, they are the fastest girls at getting ready that I've ever
met in my whole life! I thought I was fast, but they put me to shame.
:) The morning routine runs like clock work. No one has a hard time
getting stuff done. It's like we all had this
unwritten, un-talked about mutual agreement about how everything will
run, and no one ever has any problems with it. This is nothing short of
a miracle. Blessing from Heavenly Father. You know, I've been
thinking about how the Lord says that He prepares places
for us. Like in Come Come ye Saints, they say, "We'll find the place
which God for us prepared". He promises us that the field is white,
already to harvest, which means there are people prepared to receive the
gospel. From my experience in Hot Springs,
I know that I was supposed to be there to meet the people I did. God
prepared that place for me. Similarly, I have faith that God has
prepared another place for me in Bartlett. Although I don't yet see the
ways in which this is true, I think I will know
the longer I serve here. Yesterday in testimony meeting, this lady got
up and talked about how her and her husband felt prompted to move to
Memphis, even though they had been all settled in their home where they
were. Somehow she came across that scripture
in D&C where the Lord says something like "I will go before
your face. I will be on your right and on your left and will send mine
angels round about you"...something like that. They've been here a few
months now, but just last week she was taking a walk
with her 4 year old daughter. She was talking about how they were
blessed to have friends next door to their house. And on the other
side. And across the street...and behind them. And it dawned on her
that the Lord had fulfilled the promise in that scripture,
quite literally. She had a sweet spiritual confirmation that He had
prepared that for her. That really touched me. I have felt the spirit
too many times to deny it. I can and have explained it away as
something else, but the fact of the matter is, I have
experiences once in a great while where I feel something that I know I
couldn't have made myself feel. I couldn't have created that- God did.
He created us and because He did, He knows what we need. Who better to
give us what we need than our creator?
Well Bartlett is an insanely nice place. It's like the nicest town
I've ever seen. All the neighborhoods are picture perfect. They
actually all look the same and most of the time I have no idea where I
am. The people are good. We are over two wards.
It gets confusing because I can't always remember who is in what
ward-and I don't really understand the boundaries, so I especially don't
know which ward my investigators are supposed to go to. Also, sundays
are like a marathon. We go to both church meetings. So
we have church non stop from 9-2 and then we have mission correlation
meeting for 2nd ward from 2-3. Also, it was fast sunday
yesterday. Man...it was crazy. But how cool is it that there is a
TEMPLE in the parking lot of our church? Its on the same street
that I live. Pretty cool, except I can't even go inside. So I
guess pretty cruel. It's great though, because the people we talk to
have seen the temple, and it gives us an opportunity to talk about it
with them and they can visualize what we are talking
about. It's kinda crazy to be in a new area, after I got so used to
the other one. There are things that are harder, but I think I've grown
in the past two weeks. We had some crazy weather last week though. As
you've probably heard, hurricane Isaac has
done a number on New Orleans and is moving its way up Mississippi. We
had severe thunderstorms and a tornado watch on Saturday night, so Sis
Yuen, Sis Bridgewater and I spent some time camping out in the bathroom
cause it's the safest place. We brought in
couch cushions and watched the Testaments. We had a good time.
Brother Bledsoe is now passing the sacrament in Glenwood! Isn't
that wonderful? He has a calling too. He's pretty proud of it.
President Palmer named it something like assistant to the Branch
President. He arranges the hymnbooks, and every time a
new person comes to the branch he is to take down their name and
information and give it to President Palmer. I'm so happy that he has a
calling. That was one of the things he was worried about before he got
baptized. I don't know if I told you that already,
but he said he was worried that he wouldn't be around long enough to do
a good job. But he is gonna be around a couple more years yet if I
have anything to say about it. He and his wife are planning on being
sealed in the San Diego temple next year. You
better believe that Sis Gladden and I are driving to California for it.
:) They are doing so well.
I hope you are all having a nice time at the cabin going 4-wheeling
and watching movies and playing pool and settlers and eating mom's
salsa and aunt Denises' congo bars. Don't worry, I'm fine here. haha
jk. I'm doing good. Life is good. I love you
all!
love sister annonisa wilde
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