HELLO EASTER BUNNIES!!

HELLO EASTER BUNNIES!!

HOW ARE YOU ALL??!!  Is Spring time as invigorating to you as it is to missionaries??!! I just LOVE Spring!! 🙂 🙂

Oh!  We had SUCH a sweet miracle happen.  Because we had such great success after President Jergensen’s suggestion to fast for a new investigator,  we fasted last week to get a hold of  one of our potential investigators (a granddaughter of a member), and on Thursday she called us up to have dinner with her and her granddaughter came!!!  She accepted the baptismal invitation and seemed to know the Restoration pretty well! 🙂 She turns nine in April, so we are really trying to get her baptized by her birthday date! 🙂 I’m so lucky to get to teach a little kid! Her mom is less active, so we took her mom some cookies to butter her up…teehee! 🙂

There is a missionary who is really struggling right now.  It’s so hard because she’s been crying almost everyday.  She has a lot of panic attacks and anxiety.  So much that she won’t talk to anyone sometimes.  I felt bad but I realized the HUGE importance it is to make sure you are MENTALLY PREPARED before entering the mission field.  Everyone says that a mission is hard.  I honestly didn’t believe anyone that said that because it’s the Lord’s work, and He blesses you with such great joy!  But it is emotionally taxing, if not physically as well.  I’ve probably had my patience tested more than I ever have. I thought I was KIND OF a NICE PERSON before my mission….but The Lord has shown me my weaknesses, and has given me so much grace to overcome them.  I just open up Moroni 7:45-48 and pray for the gift of charity. It helps SO MUCH! But I love her so much and my heart BREAKS to see her struggle so much.   We hope to see her feel better really soon.

It was interesting because we went through our Area Book and found a lady who’d been taught several years ago. We went over to her house to get to know her, and reschedule a time to meet with some members. When we met with her again and invited her to be baptized, She was Completely taken off guard! It was a surprise to me that the previous missionaries had never asked her to be baptized and she’d been taught for almost 6 months… I’m so grateful that our President encourages us to invite on the first visit, because I know she will progress much faster now, and she will receive answers to her prayers as she obtains a vision for herself. 🙂

We were teaching another young woman (age 12) yesterday and she said the most profound thing.  She asked us if God listened to people’s prayers according to their abilities.  For example, “does he listen to the prophet more than he does a sinner?”  And I paused to think about that for a second….hmm…and my companion said, “No.  We’re all the same in His eyes.  We’re all his children, regardless of how righteous we are.”
Then she started tearing up.  “Wow….So, Heavenly Father listens to my prayers just as well as He listens to the prophets prayers!!”  AH! It was such a powerful lesson!  And she gave us two friends that she wants us to teach on Saturday! She’s going to invite them to the Young Womens General Broadcast and we’re going to make cookies before to take to the old ladies in the ward. 🙂  That is….IF they agree to come!!! 🙂 So we’re praying!!!

Well, I better get Hoppin!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR LOVE, SUPPORT, FRIENDSHIP, AND tesitmony sharing!

Explanation of the picture: It’s a tradition that on everyone’s 9 month mark…they take a pregnant picture….It’s ridiculous but I did it!

I love you ALL so much!
Sister Tobias 🙂