Hello Everyone!
Wow there are so many mothers in our family now! You all do such an amazing job!
It was sooo wonderful to be able to speak to and see most of you on Sunday! I really love you and miss you all so much! You all look so wonderful! The rain seemed to have done well for everyone!
Well I had another great week as a missionary! Last week was a little harder to get going. It seemed like both me and my companion had a 10kg weight tied to each foot but we got through it and kept going and we were able to find 2 knew investigators and about three other potential investigators! Plusssssss we have a baptismal date with Dan! It is not for about a month so we are a little worried. He is being worked on hard! He has had a few discouraging things happen and he is feeling a bit of anxiety but he is strong and has an extremely good motivation for why he is doing it so he will be ok. He has a daughter in Utah that has to fly up for his baptism so that is why it is so far ahead. So actually something really quite cool happened with Dan! We started our lesson on Saturday and I could just feel something wasnt right. We were going over the reading that we had left him... follow up.. extremely important! Well I was struggling to focus. I couldnt concentrate on what anyone was saying and I just felt so prompted that he needed a blessing. Mid conversation I just said, hang on a second, my heart was pounding and I just opened my mouth and I turned to the man that is Dan's friend who comes to every lesson and said would you mind giving Dan a blessing. Then I turned to Dan and basically just said, remember how we taught you about the priesthood.. then explained that through this you can recieve blessings of comfort and help etc. Then Dan just started explaining how some things have been really hard for him lately and how he has been having anxiety etc. Then I asked him again, Dan would you like a blessing, I know that Heavenly Father would like to help you at this time. He said yes, that he would like one if that is ok. The blessing was so amazing and basically just told him that the things that have been happening were not coming from the Lord and that he had power over them and a bunch of other things. Afterwards he said.. how did you know? I said that I didn't, I just felt it. Experiences like that and seeing the difference in him afterwards have happened a few times on my mission. My testimony of the Priesthood is undeniable, it is truly truly amazing and just shows how much heavenly Father loves us. He really loves his children and I feel so blessed that he was able to work through me in that circumstance.
So the other guy who was being kinda annoying has stopped annoying us! We got to talk to him really good and follow the Spirit to help us with effective questioning and he is meeting with us with the right motivation. We are actually really excited now cause we feel like we can move onto to teaching him commandments and it helped him really understand our purpose and his role in the lessons. So that is great news!
We just started teaching this man who is married to a less active member! I am really excited! We went over there and it all just worked out for us to be able to ask him if he would like the lessons! We somehow got on the topic of how there is a time and a season for everything and then I was prompted to say.. so is this the time for you to take the missionary lesson? He said sure!
In other news one of our investigators dropped us (the one we got from tracting). We think her husband may have put a stop to it cause he is a Catholic and she didnt want him to know. This isnt her time but hopefully she gets another chance!
Missions are fun and so rewarding! I am sooo glad I am on one!
Lots of Love
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
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