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| Just chilling on a member's back porch (that lake was their backyard last week) |
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| My angelic companion |
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| I ATE A RAW EGG (pretty much just for bragging rights) |
Tender mercies this week
y'all.
All the
missionaries in the mission are safe! This is such a relief. The storm did a
lot of damage in other areas of the mission but Opelousas did not get hit as
bad. We were on lockdown here from Friday night until Sunday morning. I have
never seen rain like this - it poured hard for a day and a half straight. There
was quite a bit of flooding here but it is not nearly as bad as the damage in
Denham Springs and Baton Rouge. We are praying for the people all over the
state that have been affected by the storm. Y'alls prayers would be appreciated
as well!
Funny moments this week:
- "Well it
looks like y'all have been eating REAL well" - 87 year old woman (we love
being called fat by old ladies)
- We held a pretty
wild funeral for our old district leader, Elder McArthur. We had piano
background music, flowers, a grave, and everything.
- The ceiling in
the nursery room of the church building fell in!
We saw so many miracles
this week. We have been teaching a man named Glyndell for a while now but he stopped
progressing. We have been praying and fasting for him because we know he needs
the gospel. When we met with him this week he had totally turned everything
around. He is on date again to be baptized! I have never seen the atonement
working so fast and so strong with anyone else. He is making some very hard,
very good decisions in his life right now. We are so happy for him! He is
incredible!
We have another
investigator that we were getting ready to drop last week. She wasn't keeping
commitments and we thought she was losing interest. But again, miracles this
week. We have been reading the Book of Mormon with her and she is loving it.
The Book of Mormon is so powerful - it answers the questions of the soul and
fills us with light. I sure love that book!
With all the flooding we
were worried that church would be cancelled. The storm was supposed to turn
around and hit us again Saturday night and if that would have happened we would
not have had church. But again, miracles! Church was great! Glyndell came and
he told us he could not sleep because he was so excited all night to come to
church! He had a great experience. He took notes in the back of his Book of
Mormon during Sacrament Meeting and he participated a lot in Gospel Principles.
He is such a stellar guy. We love him a lot!
I love having a front
row seat to seeing the atonement change lives - including my own. This gospel
is truly for everyone. If we understand grace, we know that there is never a
point where we are too far from Christ. We can always find healing in and
through Him. He has already paid the price for us - the entire price. When we
follow Him we are not trying to repay Christ for the gift he gave to us - we
are just allowing his grace to change us. Because that's
what it is all about, right? The commandments help us become more heavenly so
that we will want to live in God's presence when we die. They don't force us to
become something we are not; they help us become who we truly are.
This gospel is so
beautiful, so pure, so perfect. I feel so blessed to be here sharing this
beautiful message every day. I am so lucky! "Men are that they might have
joy". Well missionaries are that they might share joy. :)
I love y'all a ton.
Y'all are always in my prayers. Keep on keeping on!
Much love,
Sister Thomas
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| All out funeral for Elder McArthur |
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| The new district doing what we do best (eating Canes) |
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