July 25- A New Week!

This week was another good one. I have had my testimony of prayer grow so much this week. There had been many things I had been praying for the last few weeks and the Lord had asked me to wait, until this week when He answered almost all of them. Sister Bohman and I have been saying all week "Prayer Works!" It really, really does. Sometimes the Lord asks us to wait for a bit before we get our answers, but faith in the Lord means faith in his timing as well, and I have realized that the times He's asked me to wait, are the times I've appreciated my answers the most. I love in the bible dictionary under prayer it defines prayer as aligning our will with Gods. It's something I'm still learning to do, but something I appreciate so much.
Our new investigator, Hayes, that I told you about last week is amazing! Since we met him last week he has come to church and is on the fourth lesson. By the second lesson he was already talking about 'when I'm a member' before we even taught the Plan of Salvation. He hasn't set a date for baptism yet as he feels like he needs to know more, but he is praying about the 20th of August now. He's amazing though. He's definitely is an answer to one of my prayers. We taught the Word of Wisdom last night and he committed to live it all the time, even though he was a little sad about losing his occasional beer that he likes, he just said that he knew the Lord would bless him for keeping that commandment. A few hours later he texted us to say he had resisted a beer and that he was off to eat some 'flesh of beasts or fowls of the air' for dinner (he cracks us up sometimes...). I don't think I've ever been happier or more excited for someone in my life. It's funny, I always knew I would grow to love and want so much for my investigators and the people that I serve, but I can't even describe. It's so much more than that. If small steps make us missionaries his happy, I can't imagine what our Heavenly Father must feel when we come to Him. Oh what a wonderful thought. We made quite the sight doing a little joy flip out on the bus we were riding.  Haha!

I also have a new favorite lesson to teach.  I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It's the third lesson, technically, but it is the foundation for any lesson.  I love how it all just fits together.  In Moses 1:39 Heavenly Father says 'For this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man'.  When we teach this lesson Sister Bohman always draws two pits that we fall into in life.  Physical and Spiritual Death.  Physical death, or the immortality of man, was bridged over by Christs resurrection, but to get us out of the second trap, spiritual death, Christ built a ladder through his atonement.  Faith, Repentance, Baptism/the Sacrament, Recieving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end, make up the rungs to that wonderful ladder.  As Timothy J. Dyches stated 'All that is unfair about life can be made right through the atonement of Jesus Christ.'  I promise that this is the case.  There is no pit too deep, that God can't pull us out of.  If only we choose to climb that ladder.

I love you all and hope that you're well!

-Sister Christensen-