3/17/14: It's Getting Warmer :D

You know those moments when everything is going a little too smoothly with too many baptisms and stuff and you know you've got to be in for something ridiculous?

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This week I learned that people that have no potential might actually have potential. Other people have had a very different upbringing than mine, so even when they seem to be in a whole different world of morals and values, sometimes they just need their eyes opened to what they could have and that takes time and effort. And this is why we never give up on people.

My fears about Elizabeth were put to rest as we prepared her for baptism this week. She is definitely ready. But in her interview with President some things came out that she never told us and although she's totally worthy to be baptized we have some investigating to do sooo....baptism is gonna postponed. Hopefully only for a little while. When President told me my mind was BLOWN!!! Moments like that are always fun. Makes missionary life exciting.

Went and saw a potential and she was like "I have shingles and am very contagious" then she talked to us for like half an hour. Hopefully the Lord protects His missionaries, heh...but she's reading the BoM!

Sam and Crystal are ready. They just need to be self-sufficient first. There's always something...this might take a lot of time, but you know, that doesn't bother me! When people are ready and working toward baptism, I don't really care how long it takes. I know it's better for it to happen sooner rather than later, but everyone in their own time. They'll get there :)

We have a bunch of potentials that have SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!! We got Rose a BoM this week so she can finally begin investigating, Luke we just met and he seems like he's got all kinda of potential, and Scott texted us and was like "I'm gonna enroll in institute. Can I do that?" and we were like "YES" so that's moving forward, even though we haven't even met the man yet. We got 8 nonmembers to the RS dinner on Friday. It wasn't just us by any means, but it was cool to see them all there!!

We had stake conference this week and it was great! all about missionary work, less active work, and temple work, which as far as I'm concerned is pretty much covers the work of the Church. We really do need more helpful members, so hopefully that got people thinking. And they've already been striving to be more helpful, so things are looking up! I love meetings, haha.

We taught Nick about temples and work for the dead and stuff. And the priesthood. It was all pretty mind-blowing for him, but he's been so confused for like a month straight now so we had to explain it!! Fortunately it didn't turn his interest away, cause he's awesome and he knows the BoM is true :) That was our third lesson with him, so we still have a ton to teach him, but he's golden, so whatevaz :D

Follow the Spirit. It's the best thing ever. And read the BoM.

Love,

Sister Neal