August 8, 2011

Life is continually surprising and exciting. Last Tuesday we got a phone call from our Zone Leader who sounded pretty sad and humble. He first asked how good our ward is at fellowshipping. "Pretty good" was our answer. Then he continued to tell us that their investigator who was preparing to get baptized Saturday (Aug. 6), who went through the no-smoking workshop, and all the lessons with the zone leaders... well it turns out when she moved a couple of weeks ago, she barely moved into the Woodside boundaries, the sister missionaries ward boundaries. Earlier that day the same zone leader had flippantly told us to go find an investigator who wasn't a referral from the zone leaders... well it happened again. He was so sad about it. But it meant that we had 2 baptisms on Saturday! And we did! It was a way cool experience. The lady and our other golden investigator were both way excited to make the commitment to get baptized. Both were ready. It was a great day. Miracles surround the mission field. Another way cool miracle was... we got another missionary referral. A family just moved into our ward boundaries. The husband is a less active who is beginning to activate, the 11 year old daughter an active member/convert since May, and the mother who is Russian is an investigator. That is really neat! And another miracle... a member gave us a referral about a week or so ago. We finally were able to come visit her. She is willing to take the lessons. And she came to both baptisms (half of one and all of the last one - they were back to back) with her member friend. And she came to church yesterday. And she mentioned how she might be wearing her one nice dress a lot. :D Something's a happening here in Woodside ward!!! Horray!!!! :D I come with no investigators and for a moment we had 8, but we're back to 6 with 2 new converts. Life is great. Also we had a good lesson with an investigator this week. I feeling the spirit and all of a sudden I asked him a question. "What do you ask when you pray?" Relating towards finding out whether the gospel is the true gospel. Then out of the top of my head I pulled out a scripture. Doctrine and Covenants 9:7-8. I mentioned maybe he should try coming up with an answer for himself and then to pray and ask if that decision is right. He admitted that maybe he should change his praying methods, but no promise. We'll see. Also he really wants to read the Doctrine and Covenants, but Farsi is his main language and sometimes its hard to completely comprehend things in English. We'll see what happens with him. We had exchanges the other day. Sister Wither's is the new exchange sister. So I got to visit Dry Creek in Rio Linda this last week. I get to go there again this week and Antelope. Last Monday we got to play soccer for p-day. Today we are going to play capture the flag with water balloons... we'll see how it goes. Sister Wither's and I are in charge of it today. We were filling up the water balloons this morning. My shoe got soak... well both of them did. I was standing in a puddle of water in my shoe! Fun stuff. Well I love you all bunches. Have a wonderful day, week! Until next time.
Love,
Sister Kristi Walston