Hello family!
I miss you all but it has been another wonderful week. It is currently snowing outside so it is pretty cold today and it was really windy yesterday! I just came from the temple so I have had a great morning so far! The weeks feel so long. It feels like forever ago that I wrote last. So we currently have a total of 5 baptisms coming up in the next month, two on Friday, one next tuesday and then two on the 5th of March depending on what happens tonight. One is an 11 year ol boy so he has to get approval from his dad (who is in a piligimist relationship eek). The other is the piligimists brother and he is having his interview tonight so we are a bit worried about him too! There are seriously some interesting people that we meet here haha but everyone is still pretty easy to love.
We have been teaching a ton of lessons and I am getting more comfortable with it. My companion says that I do really good but I just try to let the spirit guide but sometimes I still get a little nervous which makes that harder. But the other day we gave the first lesson and I we alternated teaching the principles and I taught the first vision part. I sometimes stuff up a little cause I get nervous about having to memorise the vision but this time I was praying and my companion said she was praying and I recalled it perfectly and the Spirit was so strong. I can barely remember what I said that lesson which tells me that the Spirit was working through me. Its all about being humble and understanding that you can't do it alone and trusting that the Holy Ghost will give you the words when you need them.
We are teaching so many great families and get to see many miracles. There is one family who we are working with and they are coming back into activity, their son is nine and not baptised so we have been teaching them the lessons and the mum was the one who wanted them to start going back and the dad was finding it hard. Then the boy Calvin said that he wanted his dad to baptise him! Alleluyah! his dad came to church and stayed the whole time! Their whole family has anxiety problems and have issues being in large groups so that is a big deal that they stayed for the whole 3 hours. So his dad has a little ways to go before he can but that should be another one coming up soon.
You all sound like you are doing well which makes me happy. I hope all the blessings from me serving a mission go to all of you. That would make me extremely happy. Give the Lord opertunities for him to bless you! Be good!! Study, come closer to the Saviour. He is the greatest person you could know in the life and by following his example is how we give the Lord opertunities to bless us.
I have the greatest possible companion I could have hoped for. She will definately be a life long friend. We laugh all the time and, well most of the time we are laughing at my gooseness! Are all Australians big gooses or just me? Did I tell you people have nicknamed me Dorey?? Hehe the people I met in the MTC and now my companion! She thinks that I forget things but really my subconcious just thinks they are unimportant so deletes them hehe. Nah you all know the truth but I was hoping I could hide that here..It's just when I am tired though. I have been feeling that I should show my personality as I teach and not be ashamed because my personality is the reason that I was sent here and people will recognise it and want to listen to me because of me.... Does that make sense?
Anyway...
We are going to this place today which is a giant jumping castle and maze thing! I am pretty excited. I have started doing bootcamps with my companion in the mornings cause she wanted to make her workout more intense in the morning cause she goes home in four weeks.. sad! I love that I still have some skills in that area!
So I think that I could do better at a few things but I am trying really hard to be the best I can, but now that I have created some good habits, its time I step it up a bit and create more because we can always do better!
Oh some other exciting stuff that we hafve done since I have been here is that we have helped 2 people move and we helped out a soup kitchen last night. We will be going to the soup kitchen every Monday for an hour now. Community service is so great! People really need our help and it's great exposure for the church.
Ok well I have been on here a while now so I should go!
Love you all!
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
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