get in and stay in

I'm going to be super cliche and typical for a moment, but....

I love being a missionary.

Sometimes my heart swells with this feeling that is bigger than me. I love knowing that because of the Atonement, people can change; that because of the Plan of Salvation, I see people differently that I have before and that we all CAN return to that Father in Heaven that loves us and is so personally aware of us; and that because of the restored Gospel, the priesthood has been restored! Truth is on earth once more! 

(kudos to those who never skipped Primary and knows what I'm talking about)

 

I also realized something this week:

"I don't claim that this church is true because I'm apart of it, I'm apart of it because I know that it is true."

So yes, the church is true. I'm so grateful!

The other night, we were thinking about who we could go visit and we felt like we should go see this member. When we got to her place, she answered the door crying. Long story short, we are now teaching her non-member boyfriend and helping him to prepare for baptism. 

We had a lesson with Madison this week. She cried. But for good reasons! She wants to know that the Book of Mormon is true, but she just doesn't know it yet. She definitely has more faith than she knows. Prayers for her!! 

We also met with Robert this week. Interesting enough, the people he referred us to in our previous visit with him, happened to "randomly" show up at the same place and time that we were meeting with Robert. It definitely shocked him! Enough to even strengthen his belief in a God!

Interesting, eh?

We also met with another girl who was a former to many other missionaries in the past. It makes me sad at how much moral decay is in the world today. Sexual immorality, drugs, smoking, abuse, loss of standards, disbelief, ignorance, pride, pornography, homosexuality, unhappiness, etc-- its all Satan. He is devious and cunning and he hates us. He wants us to be miserable. When we are in the Lord's territory, we are safe. But when we take a step into the adversary's, he has got hold on us and that's when we begin to slip away into unhappiness.

GET IN the Lord's territory and STAY IN it.

I love being a missionary and I love the gospel and I love my savior.

xoxo,

Sister Court

July is over but the harvest is not!

Sister Tebbs is crazy. I love her so much!! Who knew that when we served around each other in London that just a few transfers later we would be companions?! But she goes home next transfer too...6 weeks with her is not enough! I've only adopted the title of "the butcher" or the "slaughterer", so it's fine.

This week was a longggggg one, but it was such a good one! We saw lots of miracles this week. 

Like every week. 

This week we committed to really going through our 900 list of members (more or less- active) and just go visit them! With that, we "randomly" chose a Zewdu and Mesete. When we got to the building, we were locked out for a few minutes, then when we finally got to his door, no one was home, so we decided to leave a note; as we wrote the note, my pen kept running out of ink, but eventually we finished and turned to leave. Halfway down the hall, we saw a guy at the other end and saw that he was walking right into the apartment we were just at! We called after him and he "happened" to be Zewdu!

Moral of the story: God's timing was perrrrrfect. It always is.

Then last night, we went to visit another less-active and when she answered the door and after talking for about 10 minutes, I realized that we had run into her twin sister a couple weeks before! God is AWARE of this family! 

Then Friday, we were walking down the sidewalk and I wasn't planning on stopping these two guys that were going to pass us, but because we talk to EVERYONE, we stopped them and talked to them. They were actually already Christians! We talked for 15 minutes about the Restoration and they are super interested in knowing more!

Me at ESL doing my duties

Yesterday, the YSA branch didn't meet here in Toronto, so we had the opportunity to go to a family ward! Man, I haven't been in a family ward in over a year!! It was kind of refreshing! 

Sorry this email is kind of lame. It's hard to put into words the experiences I'm having as a missionary. I love the Lord, I love having a prophet on the earth, I love knowing that God is real and that this life is our time to prepare to meet Him again. 

"The happiness...peace...progress, prosperity of the Latter-day Saints, and the eternal salvation and exaltation of this people lie in obedience to the counsels of God." 

I love y'all! Make good choices because every single one counts!

xoxo,

Sister Court

Sister Tebbs and Nikka (she was baptized a year ago while her best friend was on her mision) miracles happennnn! We love Nikka!

The city!