April 20, 2015

Hello Family!  

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE WEEK! Ashlynn! I am so excited for you! What a special day that will be! I will be thinking of you all and pray everything goes perfectly! What a wonderful day! I sure do love you Ashlynn! You are an incredible girl and I am so happy for you! 

Alex and McCall I hope you get feeling better! I am sorry you got sick!  Brennen you are quite the handsome devil - hope you had a great time at Prom!!

Well, this week was wonderful ... I always get to emailing on Mondays and get so excited and want to tell you everything...but get a little over whelmed on what to actually tell you! 

1. I will start with the best family ever! The Grigsby family! They have my whole heart! When I first got here we were just teaching the kids (8, 8, and 11yrs old.) They are all doing great and they all want to get baptized, but this is a family who all needs the gospel!! There are literally like 5 families in this one home..and it has been so fun to watch this transformation happen! As we teach the kids...the grandma will linger in the kitchen...the Uncle will sit in the back room and listen..( I know he can hear every word!) :) :) and the Mom and Grandpa are sitting right beside the kids...well slowly but surely they started to participate this week and they have even said a couple of prayers for the lessons and Heavenly Father is just taking over! We asked this week if the whole family would sit in the lesson and they did! The whole family listened and we taught the about the Book of Mormon. By the time we were done they all had committed to come to church...and guess what??? THEY ALL CAME TO CHURCH!  We had a whole family come and it was just the best thing in the entire world! :) I love them all so much! Those kids have my whole heart and I love the Grandma, Uncle Keery, and Kacey! That home is a MIRACLE! We have literally been over their almost every day!! 

2. I got to go to Chrissy's baptism. It was so wonderful! She is like Stephanie was ...prepared from day one and I love her dearly! I am so excited to go to Stephanie and Chrissy's sealings one day..they both know that I need to be the first one told as soon as they get engaged to their boys! :) 

-unfortunately Ivy didn't get baptized..I called her every day this week to try and help her stay strong, but she said she just wasn't ready yet... I know she will get baptized  though, her testimony of The Book of Mormon is to strong for her to stay away to long..she promised me that she would choose a date this week and that she would hold to that date. I was pretty bold with her over the phone ..I told her it was because I loved her. 

Chrissy's Baptism!!!

Overall this week was so good...OH I can't forget my funny story  for you all...so we woke up at 5:15 to go exercise and we walk out to go get in our car...and NO CAR??? You should have seen the look on our faces!  We thought for sure our car had been stolen and we were in complete shock! We walked back inside said a prayer and then called our vehicle coordinator..(poor guy) haha!! He said he would make some calls and see what was going on...so long story short...our car totally got TOWED! haha (we didn't have a permit- but I guess the sisters never did have a permit for the whole time that Sister Tua has been in crossroads but,.. that night I guess was just not our night! )  SO...75$ later..we got our car and a permit to park!  I guess you could say I have never been so happy to hear our car got towed in my entire life! :)  Silver lining right? Funny times!! 

Sister Tua and I when our car was towed and GONE!!!!

Well, I love you all so much! This week President gave a training over a conference call to the whole mission on faith. And boy was it so powerful..he committed us to read and study faith for 15 minutes each day, and to be honest my mission and perspective has changed dramatically. I know that by faith miracles happen! I wish I could tell you half of the miracles that have occurred  this week, I know it is because we focused on simply trusting the Lord. I know that faith is the most essential thing to have in our daily life. If you want to read the Bible dictionary on faith it is excellent!

I love you  all and have a testimony! You are the best! 
All my love,
Sister Clegg