Hey Family!
I can't believe that the transfer is almost over. We found out
that Sister Yuen is being transferred to Maumel AR (spelling?). It was
actually her very first area that has since been closed. She is going
to open it again! She is excited but nervous,
and we are sad to see her go. It will be weird because we will always
feel like something is missing. We call ourselves the tri-force. It
just won't be the same without her. We really do have a good time
together. We may or may not have been singing 'You
Can Make the Pathway Bright' in our best/loudest/craziest opera voices
in the car yesterday. I'm pretty sure people could have heard us from
across the street. We were very excited yesterday though because Sammy
and Steve came to church.... !!!! Seriously,
you don't even know how awesome it was. We randomly knocked on their
door (they are the ones that we helped with the yard sale) 2 weeks ago
and now we will be friends forever. Steve is probably around 6'6 and is
a rugby player and Sammy is a firefighter.
They have their two little girls who also came to church. Their 6 yr
old ended up knowing one of the girls in her primary class because they
are in the same class at school. Sammy told us after church that she
had never been to a church where they felt so
welcome. It has been a joy to be her friend and teach her about the
gospel. The gospel is real. It can reach everyone and bring the power
of God into their lives. That's the cool thing. It can reach everyone
because it is for
everyone. No one is excluded from it. You don't have to be
rich or pretty or educated. It has the power to connect us with our
Father in Heaven who has a personal love for us.
We had a zone conference this past week, which was in the Bartlett
building. This is very convenient for us because we only have to drive
about 2 minutes to get there. We live 2 minutes from the temple. I
have been blessed in my life to always live
in a town that had a temple, but I think this is the closest I've ever
lived to one and who would have thought it would be on my mission. We
have ward temple night tomorrow and we get to go because we have recent
converts who are going to do baptisms. I.
am. stoked. Anyway, back to the zone conference. We always have to do
role plays. I mean, we always get to do role plays. haha. They
are...good but you have to be really serious about it or you won't get
anything out of it. So we were doing a role play
with some other sisters and I was playing their investigator. I didn't
know anything about her except that she is 16 and talks a lot. It was
interesting though because when I prayed that I would be able to help
those sisters learn something about their investigator,
something cool happened. They asked me if I would be baptized. I
said, "Well, I've already been baptized at my mom's church. " After the
role play they told me that the girl really had been baptized at her
mom's church and that would probably be one of
her concerns. I didn't know that before and ended up saying something
that was actually true. It was pretty cool.
Another thing I learned at zone conference was an answer to my
prayer. President shared a talk from a general authority that included
a letter from a missionary saying that he felt they were so close to
becoming effective missionaries but felt that something
was missing. After talking with one of his leaders he received the
advice to do a 24 hour fast from food and water. During this fast he was
to make a list of all the things that "poke" at his
spirit. Afterwards, he would do a 40 day "spiritual fast". Each
day he would do his best to work on this list, whether it be to stop
doing something he shouldn't be doing or start doing something
he should. At the end of the day he would go to the Lord and account
for his actions that day, see where he failed, and pray
for more strength the next day. At the end of the 40 days, his
desires had changed. He had allowed the Savior to change him.
It completely changed his missionary work and he had the power of the
Holy Ghost. This is truly the power we need in missionary
work. It is the only way by which we can be successful. If it is by
any other way, it is not of God. This challenge is what I need to do,
so I'm doing it. Wanna try it? Doesn't it sound fun? If you do, you
should tell me and then we can do it together.
It's like spiritual boot camp. :)
I pray for you. I love you all. Have a wonderful week.
love sister annalisa wilde
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