February 17, 2014
Ma and Da (and everyone else you
forward this to),
I wish I had oodles of time to write
everything, but sadly...I don't :( However, this week was an amazing one: first
off thank you for the package!! I now have hand warmers for weeks! For
Valentine's Day we Sister Anderson and I left paper hearts on the doors of some
of the investigators we have come to know. We visited about 12ish people and
only got caught once! (Well it was her son so it didn't really count). We felt
like weird Mormon Ninja Prowlers but we visited a few of them a couple days
later and some still had them up :' ) They expressed how happy they were that
we thought of them. A woman named Amber, especially, who struggles with
depression and we have trouble getting appointments with.
We made chocolate bowls with balloons
for Valentine's Day at Spring's house with her girls. The picture attached is
all of us with them right before I accidentally set off our car alarm...
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| Sister Weaver, Spring girl, Sister Anderson |
This week held many promising
missionary opportunities with many investigators, less actives, and recent
converts where the Spirit was able to teach. When we visited Dee this week, (a
woman who has been investigating the Mormons for years) we spoke little about
prophets and how God calls whom He will call, giving one authorized person in
these latter days all of the priesthood keys necessary to do God's work. Being
a learned woman who already knows so much doctrine about the church, she has
had trouble accepting or believing the order of the First Presidency, although
she agrees with much about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. But she was
surprised to learn about that and it made a little more sense to her.
We taught Nikki again (the one who
struggles with smoking and we are TRYYYYING to commit to a baptismal date) this
time the covenant the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's made with the Lord to bury their
weapons of war. We were trying to relate it to smoking, but she got confused
and thought it meant that God doesn't want us to defend ourselves. We ended up
smoothing that over with the story of the Army of Heleman :)
I was able to share the Gospel of
Jesus Christ with a visual aid for the first time in detail to Sister Nixon, a
less active member and could feel the Spirit strongly present during our
meeting. We also met with Sister Alson who, because of her declining heath has
not been able to come to church. She was very gracious and has such a strong
testimony of her purpose in life and her ultimate goal: to live with Heavenly
Father, with as much of her family as she can.
I am so grateful for the
opportunities the Lord has given me to witness His truth through the strength
and faith of the people I meet.
I'm doing....ok.....driving in the
snow. What's embarrassing is how embarrassing I am driving when the roads are
clear. Each intersection in Waukesha is so confusing you have to change lanes just
to go straight and there are lights EVERYWHERE so you don't know which
intersection you are in. I've been having my klutzy moments too. I messed up
trying to begin a lesson for some members who fed us (in front of all four
elders, ugh) and spilled some guava all over someone's nice tablecloth
yesterday. So, all in all, if you could pray for my ability to focus, much
would be appreciated :)
But enough about my spazziness...I'm
glad that the Bishop was able to read Sis. Rutherford's talk. I have no doubt
that she will be a wonderful missionary on the other side.
Sister Anderson is writing a boy who
is in Cape Verde, Africa mission and whom I'm pretty sure she will marry, but
she read to me a bit of his letter today. He said he had hiked up some mountain
where he could feel the devil's presence and things occurred of a spiritual
nature that he couldn't even describe and resulted in him casting the devil out
of someone by the power of the priesthood. It is truly incredible how much
trust the Lord puts in His children. He obviously knows our potential and our
willingness to do His will, so how could we ever resist putting our trust in
Him?
Especially on a mission where you
have to FULLY rely on the Spirit. I didn't know what that meant until I came.
It is something that only a mission sent by the Lord could fulfill. I was
thinking the other day about how so many miracles were present during the
Restoration--God, Moroni, Elijah, Peter, James, and John coming down, angles
being seen atop the temple--and how it is so easy for us today to think about
how ministering angels and miraculous visions are so rare in these the latter
days of the last dispensation. Is it because miracles have ceased? No. It is
because just as the time of the Restoration yielded Gospel knowledge through
the strength of faithful members, so today is a time in which faith is of the upmost
importance to exercise. We live in a time in which our knowledge will not be
tested, but our faith. This is a dispensation in which faith must prevail. Since
faith and prayer are the most powerful weapons against the adversary, why else
would Satan be attacking this principle harder than he ever has before--at a
time just before his destined binding torment will take place?
I love you all so much!! Please stay
warm and safe in this tumult of snow you are getting over yonder West!!!!!
-Sister Weaver-
P.S. Tell Dad that I heard "The Thunder Rolls"
country song at a member's house and thought of him :)
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| Elder Michael Cook |
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| Elder Michael Cook |
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