Hello wonderful family,
I really loved your emails this week! So possitive and happy! I love you all and miss you all! Sometimes it feels like forever till I will be able to be normal again and see you all again but I guess that by the time I get there I won't want to be normal any more but I'll be sad that I can't be a missionary! I decided I should probably start with the mass email to everyone today so that I have time to write something decent to you all.
Soooooo I have had a weird week but still good. Since Sister Thomas left I have been a bit stressed hehe. I have had to teach my companion everything about our area, learn how to drive on the other side of the road and notice all the street signs and stuff on the opposite side of the road (I accidently ran a red light cause I didnt see the lights hehe shhhh don't tell anyone... but we lived!) and basically just lead the area. My companion is the senior companion but it is kinda hard for her to lead when she doesn't know any one that we teach... so I have been walking away from lessons being like.. did I say the right thing, did I prepare enough. I am just learning to trust that I am really here for a reason and that Heavenly Father knows exactly what I am going to say before I am going to walk in there and that whatever happens is his will. Nothing has gone bad yet as far as I can see so I am trying to stop the little voices that are telling me I am not good enough.
We have about 6 investigators that have committed to baptism and almost all of them have had something that we will have to work through with them. There is one family who are so amazing and all I want for them is to be together forever but its going to be a process. The dad is inactive but he and his two kids were at church on Sunday! Yay! His wife wants to be baptised. She is the sweetest person that I have probably ever met but she always has to work on Sunday which makes it hard and she has something else that she has to deal with. I have never felt my heart ache for someone as much as I have for her. The day she goes into that water and comes out a new person will truly be a momentous day. Her three girls will probably be baptised at the same time so it is really amazing to watch all of their growth as they work towards that.
So Dianne who was just baptised is doing amazingly well! She has a job now and tons of the people who live in the homeless shelter are being changed from her experience. I spoke to her yesterday and she was like "when he promised blessing I never realised that they wouldn't just be for me!" She got baptised and the following week, a bunch of the people who had been living in the womens shelter with her but for months before her without a job and they all got jobs the next week! Either a coinidence or the verse in Alma 7 coming true (see the bottom of this email). So the week of her baptism she moves into a homeless shelter which was like the end of the world for her as it would be for most but was surrounded by people who were supporting her rather than the jerks she lived with before! She is just a changed person from the first day I met her, making the most out of every situation and truly recognising her blessings. She will be able to live at the homeless shelter with all her food and housing paid for and pay off all of her bills, have fun with all the other people, it is totally drug and alcohol free- they check and stuff, so basically has this chance to build he life up the way she wants it! And she has seen that and is so happy! I am so happy, talking to her is one of my favourite things to do now!
So we taught an investigator that Sister Thomas and I found tracting this week! It was the first lesson that Sister Lovett and I had taught together so I felt it went bad but he told us we could come back and teach him more so it could have been that bad. We had an awesome tracting experience this week too! I have been tracting 3 times and not for very long any time but I am weird and like it so we do it when we can! I have faith in it so thats probably why we have some success in this town of people that have all been sent anti by another church. I think that is very Christlike of them don't you? I think its kinda funny cause it actually got the missionaries more work then doing the opposite. This week we followed this plan in this book that tells us to do a ton of different things to receive inspiration before going out and tracting. It involved a ton of praying, not that we don't already pray a ton. But any way this street on the map stood out to me and my companion we got the street at the time we could and I felt like we should go to a certain door. This first door we stopped at was a member that we knew who stood outside with us and gave us a full rundown of everyone that lived on their street.. who all the members were and who all the inactives were and who would be interested and who wouldn't. Apparantly he and his wife are like the nicest neighbours you could possibly have... they meet every knew person that moves in and out and they are the veterans of the street.. they have been there the longest. They take them presents and stuff on holidays and stuff. Soooo after all this information about each house, there was one door that he said we should go to... They weren't home (anti climax lol sorry) But we are going to go back on a Saturday or something so I will keep you updated on how that goes!
Everyone should read Alma 7 it is my favourite this week. I have used it in almost every lesson and every dinner appointment hehe. Especially verse 11-13 and the last verse, I think it is verse 23. He knows exactly how to help us through any kind of pain and heart ache, and how we learn how we need to get through things is through the Spirit. The Spirit can teach us all things, including how to use the atonement in our specific and individual situations. He knows how to help us we just have to learn how to grasp that. As we learn to do that it can affect everything around us!
Well I love you all a TOOONNNN
Love Sister Huckfeldt
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