Look what I woke up to on Easter morning! Sis. Call's specialty is an
egg and spinach omelet, pineapple, and a green smoothie. Thanks, tongban!
Happy Easter/General Conference weekend! Time is flying so
fast! I can't believe we already made it to another General Conference and
Easter weekend. Our week was wonderful. We kept very busy while
trying to get a ton of people to conference, moving, and who knows what.
Conference was AMAZING!!! It's seriously my favorite time of year. Haha I
remember as a kid dreading 8 hours of old people talking, but now I understand
why it's important and I can't get enough! We saw so many miracles this week as
we talked about conference, as well as some people very turned away. With
one potential investigator, we stopped by and told him the prophet would be
speaking, and he was just baffled by the thought of a living prophet on the
earth. Ah, it's just so sad! But fortunately, there were more people that
were way excited to come and hear the prophet and the apostles speak. We
saw miracle after miracle as we got in touch with people we haven't talked to
in forever and set them to come to at least one session. Lesson learned: the
Lord will provide in time of need! Unfortunately, not one person came
haha. JUST COME TO CHURCH, PEOPLE!! I don't understand why it's such a hard thing
to come! But we keep trying and loving them with persistence. I got a lot out
of it, anyway, and we'll just have to share the messages that we heard with
everyone.
General Conference though. So good! I loved Holland,
of course, as well as Gerald Causse and how he talked about not taking the
gospel for granted. I also liked Dale G Renlund's talk about saints and
sinners, and how Wilford W Andersen related the gospel to music. Okay,
they were just all good (: But I have to say that President Monson's talk was
specifically for me this time. I have no idea what his real message was
or what any of y'all got out of it; But we've been applying Elder Kopischke's
advice when he came to the mission, which is to invite people to come to church
with a question. So we did that with everyone we invited to conference,
and I did it myself. I've been praying so hard and so long to know why I'm here
in Georgia at this time, and I think I got my answer. Straight from the
prophet. Some day, whether it's tomorrow or in 30 years, I will be able
to use this experience to help someone else going through a similar
situation. It doesn't matter how long I'm in Georgia, or if I ever get to
Taiwan. But He's molding me into the person I need to be in order to help
other people. And I think I've finally accepted that fact. It
doesn't matter where I am, as long as I'm serving the Lord. I would love
so much to be in Taiwan and teach those people and actually learn how to speak
Chinese, but I'm still doing the same service to Him right here. And
that's all that matters.
Yes mom, I did think of you while they showed the beautiful
tulips in front of the Salt Lake temple, and definitely missed those
mountains. I was looking for Kristen in the choir but she wasn't there!
What happened?
Oh boy. Haha so I got a haircut last week. Well, make that
two haircuts. The first time, a member cut my hair, and it turned out to
be "a haircut on top of a haircut", as the real hair stylist put
it. I forgot to take a picture, she was able to fix it up and make it
look good. Thank goodness.
We were going to move on Wednesday, but the landlord wasn't
there, so we had to wait until Friday. We had a ton of help from Sister
Parker, the Danklef's, and the office elders, so that was really nice. We
had a few problems getting the fire department to turn on our electricity, and
we were going to have to wait until Monday, but then at the last minute, they
said they'd turn it on without any fee because we're from the church. I'm
not sure what exactly that means, but that was definitely a tender mercy.
Haha meanwhile, before the electricity turned on, me and Sister Call were
hurrying to chug milk and eat the last bit of spinach and honey mustard before
they went bad sitting out.
We had an AMAZING lesson with Misty this past week! I'm not
sure if I've told y'all about her... But we tracted into her, and she just knew
we were sent from God. We taught her the restoration, and she was just coming
up with all sorts of doubts that weren't really relevant. We decided that
she just needed a firm testimony of Joseph Smith and the BOM before we moved
on, so we planned to watch the restoration movie with her. We had the Benich's
with us, and at the beginning of the lesson, she flat out said that she's non
denominational, and she won't be baptized into any church because denominations
aren't good. By the end of the movie, the Spirit was just so strong, and
we testified to her, invited her to baptism, and she accepted
immediately. AHH it was so cool to see the Spirit soften her heart and
testify to her!! Seriously, without the Spirit, we are NOTHING.
Transfers are this week, and at least two of the elders are
leaving from our district and me and Sister Call are staying put. K
seriously, I'm not just in Georgia for a reason, but I'm in Barnesville
for a reason! There's gotta be someone here that I'm supposed to find, teach,
and baptize.
Well, things are just sunflowers and roses over here! Haha
I'm excited for a new transfer and kind of a fresh start. We're working
hard and loving every minute of the work. Because He Lives, we can and
will all live again, and we can all find peace and joy in this life and in the
life to come.
Love, Sister Facer
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