June 16, 2014

HOLA!!!! 

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well! I hope you had a good Fathers Day Dad! I sure thought about you! Amster and Austy - I heard you gave excellent talks in church! Glad to hear that everyone is doing well! Callie and Harry - have an extra ice cream cone for me okay? (Maybe the Harry way?) haha! 

Well, this week was wonderful! A growing week...but if you aren't having those weeks on the mission then you are doing something wrong!! They are just part of the "refining" process. Our investigators are doing good. We are really focusing on trying to find investigators who are ready to be baptized. We as a mission have a goal to get a 121 miracle (meaning baptisms) before the end of this coming transfer. I plan on contributing as much as I can to this goal and so we are working as hard as we know how to find those prepared children on God. 

Transfers are this week...we will be staying in the great land of Westfield another transfer and I am so glad. I can't imagine leaving. I have work do to! Everyone in the District is leaving except Sister Hofhiens and I. So, President once again is switching it up!  He likes doing that! :) 

Some miracles this week:

We were out Personal Contacting one day and we started talking to this lady name Selina. She just moved from Hawaii and she is the sweetest thing. As we were talking to her, we asked her if she had a faith and she said she was MORMON!  We were so surprised and asked what her story was. She then went on to explain that she was baptized when she was 8 and hadn't gone to church since. She said she prayed that morning for someone to help build her faith back up again! MIRACLE! 

So, not only did a story like Selina happen once...but TWICE! We were at this trailer park...which might I add..Sister Hofhiens told me she didn't feel comfortable there and I was LOVING it!! I think I was meant to work in the slums of the towns???  But anyways..we met Porsha and she was baptized when she was 13 and moved to Indiana 7 years ago and ever since has not gone to church! Her family is from Hawaii as well.(totally opposite sides of town but happen to be a coincidence) But...she is the only member and the rest are not...so she said we could come back on Tuesday and whoever was home would listen to the message we had to share. (which if all her family is home...we could get like 7 new investigators!)   Blessings and miracles! This is Gods work! :) 

Over all...This week I would say has been the most "growing week" I have had yet on my mission. How grateful I am for moments like that. One thing my Heavenly Father really has blessed me with is the ability to take a step back and look at the eternal perspective, and when you do that, nothing is worth really stressing about. I have grown and I have used my knees well this week, but I come out of it with hope and a reminder of what my purpose it as a missionary! We had three investigators we had to drop and one who is not doing as well.  I truly can say I LOVE the people I teach and so my heart is stretched when I have to put faith in the Lord in hopes that someone prepared will replace them. I am truly grateful for trials! I love it and one of the reasons I came out on my mission was to become a better person and I think Heavenly Father is trying his best to do so! :) 

Well, I love you! Trei, Reese, Uncle Richard...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :) I love you and think the world of every single one of you! There isn't a greater work than what I am doing right now! I tresure this time and hold it sacred! I am thankful for my knowledge of the restored gospel! This is message we share is a message worth listening to! How blessed and thankful I am! :) Love you all!

Love,

Sister Clegg the 3rd