I can't believe that it is already Monday again. So I don't have a lot of time to write because today is a holiday and so the email place didn't open until really late and we have to catch a train in about an hour and I want to look up talks for a bunch of our Recent Converts and Less actives. So sorry but I won't be sending individual emails this week. But know that I love you all.
Only have time to give an update on Annabelle. She is doing really well. We have now officially taught all the lessons. We were nervous to go and teach tithing but when I started the lesson she said
"Oh I read this chapter in the Gospel Principles book"
"Oh ya? What do you remember"
"Wait. It's 10% of your income. And they use the funds for building churches and publishing the books and missionary work and for charity...ya and that's what I remember. I read all the scriptures that corresponded with the chapter. Tithing has been around for a while"
Easiest lesson of tithing I've ever taught. haha Anyway, so she came to church on Sunday (and once again was about 40 minutes early). We had a lesson after church and were talking to her a lot about baptism. At the end of the lesson I told her "Annabelle. I know I am persistent" (to which she beamed from ear to ear. "Yes incredibly persistent"). I then expressed how the reason I am so persistent with these things is because I love her and I want her to be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven and that that was my goal for myself and I want her to be there too.
"But even more, I know that your Heavenly Father wants you there more than you can understand and I also know that how you start that path back is through Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost."
Instantly the scripture from D&C flashed through my mind
"And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance...and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!"
Today we were cleaning the apartment and we found a giant picture of Christ. We stuck it on the window facing out so all the world could see and we wrote with dry erase marker the scripture in John 3:16. As I sat there and read the scripture over and over and thought about my lesson with Annabelle, I thought of how lucky I am to be here. How happy I am to be here and how I feel like I could do this forever.
I know the Gospel is true and I KNOW it blesses families forever.
Love you all
Sœur Bitter
Only have time to give an update on Annabelle. She is doing really well. We have now officially taught all the lessons. We were nervous to go and teach tithing but when I started the lesson she said
"Oh I read this chapter in the Gospel Principles book"
"Oh ya? What do you remember"
"Wait. It's 10% of your income. And they use the funds for building churches and publishing the books and missionary work and for charity...ya and that's what I remember. I read all the scriptures that corresponded with the chapter. Tithing has been around for a while"
Easiest lesson of tithing I've ever taught. haha Anyway, so she came to church on Sunday (and once again was about 40 minutes early). We had a lesson after church and were talking to her a lot about baptism. At the end of the lesson I told her "Annabelle. I know I am persistent" (to which she beamed from ear to ear. "Yes incredibly persistent"). I then expressed how the reason I am so persistent with these things is because I love her and I want her to be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven and that that was my goal for myself and I want her to be there too.
"But even more, I know that your Heavenly Father wants you there more than you can understand and I also know that how you start that path back is through Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost."
Instantly the scripture from D&C flashed through my mind
"And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance...and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!"
Today we were cleaning the apartment and we found a giant picture of Christ. We stuck it on the window facing out so all the world could see and we wrote with dry erase marker the scripture in John 3:16. As I sat there and read the scripture over and over and thought about my lesson with Annabelle, I thought of how lucky I am to be here. How happy I am to be here and how I feel like I could do this forever.
I know the Gospel is true and I KNOW it blesses families forever.
Love you all
Sœur Bitter
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