Fear and excitement

Hi everyone,

So here is my latest update!! Im freaking out!!! Haha! Not too bad though but my companion is leaving me next Monday and then I will have to show someone else around here and I don't even know how to get places that good yet! I am sure it will be ok though.

But guess what?? Dianne is getting baptised this Saturday and I am soooo excited! She knows the Church true and Heavenly Father her to be baptised real bad. So one of the people in our mission presidency, President McCurdy had a prompting to come to Diannes ward to meet her, not last Sunday but the Sunday before and it meant the world to her! She has j had experience after experience to show her that the Church is true. I can't wait to see how being a member of the church affects her life. Everything in her life outside of this though is not going so great so can you all pray that she is able to find somewhere else to live that atleast has heating??? She used to be so negative and she would get stuck thinking and talking about all the bad things in her life now and previous but now everytime we see her she is just beaming with excitement and she is just such an example of Faith! I cannot wait to see how she is blessed! I know that she will be blessed amazingly. I can just feel it! Seriously she has come so far and she is such a strength. Her excitement is how we should all be about about our baptism! We have the gate of Heaven unlocked to us because of our baptism and we should be thanking Heavenly Father every day that we were born into families that had the Gospel!

Plusssss!!! Another lady that I think I have already told you about, Norma who has also had the Spirit testifying to her strongly. We went over to her house for a lesson on Sunday and two or three weeks previously we had had our last lesson.. I can't remember exactly but Sister Thomas had asked her to be baptised but she said she wasn't ready too like Dianne did initially. With her and Dianne we always seem to have some of the most spiritual lessons. Soooo we went over and she started asking questions about the Book of Mormon. We shared long testimonies and some of our favourite stories ( P.S I have been loving reading the book of Mormon, I can finally read it like a normal book with a huge excitement, wanting to know what happened and not wanting to put it down. I am reading in Mosiah and it is just action packed with such amazing stories of the blessings that come from our faith, prayer, repentance, being baptised and following the prophet. I may sound like a dorky missionary but I don't even care! Its so great!) and then I asked her if she feels it... If she feels that its true. She said she knows it is, she can feel it and she has a burning desire to read it!! And then she dropped the amazing bombshell... She goes.. So I was sitting in Church today and it just kept going through my head.. get baptised, get baptised. Then she said she couldnt stop thinking about it all day and she said she was thinking about it our whole lesson too.. She said that she wants that now too! We all started crying!! It was the best feeling ever and we all hugged her and congratulated her.. you have never felt excitement until something like that happens!!

Ok so what else happened.. Oh we got our lunch paid for agian today! We walked into another place and the owner was a mormon and was like.. get whatever you want.. Its on me!! Then we talked for him for a while and he served his mission in South Africa or America.. I forget and they baptised a whole tribe that lived in the rain forest in a Paranah filled lake!! No one got bitten and they were all scared to go in the water but that was the only place they could be baptised!! The whole tribe!!! They also believed in the great white God who was going to come back some day... then the missionaries showed up...

There has been tons of great experiences.. oh we have been teaching this family who attend the Pentacostal church here and the dad knows the Bible from cover to cover!! He also talks faster and more than any other guy I have ever met but its usually quite interesting. Any way so they have a big family and so it was rather noisy. We were finding it tricky to start the lesson and I had a prompting for us to sing a song. We sang I know that my Redeemer lives and the whole atmosphere changed. The children just sat and listened and everyone was quiet. We started the lesson and it went really well. They are such a great family and we have high hopes for them!

Oh the Petersen family is praying about their baptismal date right now too! We have two lessons with them this week.. we are hoping that the dad of that family who is an inactive member will be there this Thursday. He is supportive of them but he is always bowling when we have lessons. Oh thats another funny story that I will save for another time!

I am sure there is a ton more that I could write about but I had better leave it at that today!

I love you all and miss you all and hope to hear how you are all doing soon!

Love Sister Huckfeldt