Wanting to make a Change

Nothing to exciting happened this week really. It was kinda a slow week but still good. We had another lesson with Mary on Wednesday. We had it at our branch presidents house. It was so awesome! They pretty much taught the lesson to her ,and sister Davis and I just sat back. She is so excited to be baptized. I just marvel at the miracle of Mary. She is so amazing, we met her tracking and she told us no at least a dozen times and now she is getting baptized and she is just so happy. I have seen her change. Heavenly Father has been preparing her for this all her life. I feel so blessed to be a part of it. Then we had another lesson with Haley it was the one I was dreading, word of wisdom, because she likes her coffee and Ice tea. When we taught her she was so willing to just give those things up without question because she knows that the blessing of being baptized will be worth it. She is also amazing. She is so elect and she is going to do so much good with her life. Janice, one of our new investigators is starting to progress. She is divorced and has a nine year old son and is always taking care of her father who is very ill. All she wants is to do what God asks of her. She has been reading so much from the Book of Mormon and always has so many hard questions. but she is really serious about finding the true church and I know her heart is being softened. she told us if Gladys knight believed it was true maybe she could too. haha. So every since I have got to Bedford I have had a goal, to leave an impression on this Branch. the reason I made that goal is because about two years ago there was a missionary her name was sister Anderson and her companion was Sister Webster. They baptized so many people and they brought the Branch closer together. They really had an affect on the Branch and every member talks about them literally ALL the time. They are famous here. and ever since they left no one has been baptized and the missionary efforts have not been as good. So after my first week after hearing all about them everywhere we went I resolved that I wanted to change that, I wanted to help Bedford see that God has prepared people here and that we are doing our job and working hard. So last weekend when we got to meet Elder Oaks, the priesthood in the area also got to so our Branch president, president Hodge went to that meeting there he talked to President Pitt. Well President Pitt called on Wednesday night, which he NEVER calls so we knew it was important. He called to congratulate us on the progress of our area , then he said I was talking to President Hodge at the meeting on Saturday he talked about Sister Anderson and Sister Webster and said they were great missionaries and did a lot for the Branch, then he said Sister Robinson and Sister Davis and doing that again and I am so pleased with what is happening. the missionary fire is in this Branch again. When he said that my heart jumped. I was so happy because that has been my goal since week one. I love it here in Bedord. So every Friday we do service for a food pantry. Bonnie and Jim Norman own it and we have become very close friends they take us out to lunch every Friday and they have been working with missionaries for two years yet none of us have shared the message with them, maybe it just wasn't there time yet. Sister Davis and I have talked about asking them to learn more a lot but we always chicken out. Last Thursday Sister Hodge the relief society president asked Bonnie to speak at a thing for our church after she gave her a book of Mormon. Bonnie has been talking about that experience a lot lately and on Friday we were at lunch and she said that she was cleaning her yard on Saturday I took that as an opportunity and told her that we would love to come help. She agreed and sister Davis wore here I am a Mormon t shirt which prompted her to ask us about the Book of Mormon that Sister Hodge gave her. Sister Davis just said if you want to know about it just read it. That wasn't enough for me so as we were walking the leaves down to the lake side it was just me and Bonnie and I said as my heart was racing a thousand times a minute. Bonnie has any of the missionaries ever taught you what we believe? She said no not really, I have seen some stuff on TV but I don't know if it is entirely true. I really am curious and I want to know more. WHAT! why as no one asked her yet? because she is our friend and being a missionary to our friends is SO much harder than complete strangers. Needless to say Sister Davis and I are going to be teaching her the lessons. I am so happy that we followed the promptings to serve her and ask her if she wanted to learn more because asking is all it took. On Sunday there was a freak snow storm, they canceled church early and closed everything down. It was pretty bad. Sister Davis and I thinking that we could handle the snow because I am from Idaho and she is form Utah decided to go out and visit people anyway. We got stuck getting out of our drive way but we got out eventually and made the trek to Lisa's house (a less active) needless to say it was ridiculous the five minute drive took us about half an hour because there was about a foot snow on the roads and no plows. I got lots of pretty pictures though. SO we spent our evening after that inside and studying. This week I studied about grace and I learned that Grace is literally the power that makes the atonement work. It is that thing that strengthens us from day to day. Without Grace we could not go on. I am so thankful for what Jesus did for me and for everyone. My testimony is growing so much. I love this gospel. I hope everyone has a good week! love always Sister Robinson