Blessings

Soooooo!! The blessings have been flowing!!!! In the past week we got six new investigators! 3 Yesterday! We are teaching two hispanic families now which has been really different and well kinda stressful cause of all the organising and adjusting schedules I have been having to do. We have been having to make sure that we have an interpreter there cause alot of the Gospel words are new for them and need to be explained and said in their own language. We are busy, but we can always be busier! It is so nice, I just hope that we can give all the love and support to the investigators that they need to feel important. We had miracle Monday again! Three new investigators yesterday! I can see now why I was feeling a few weeks back that there are going to be good things happening in this area. There are amazing things coming up and I just need to trust in the Lord especially now that he will help me be the missionarey that he wants me to be for his children.

Sunday we did a greatful fast where we were purely fasting to show our gratitude. I turned into a massive gumpy pants hehe!! Turns out I can't be fasting, tired, really stressed and a nice person all at the same time hehe! Something had to give! But I just went home and ate and prayed alot and things went much better the rest of the day.

I have been praying really often lately. It has been a wonderful experience feeling Heavenly Father strengthen me as I keep going. I really have felt what the people felt in Mosiah 24. He has strengthened me through my burdens so that they have seemed light. I think I have told you this but I am having a very different experience training this transfer than most people have. I am learning alot of consistency and perseverance. I am learning that Heavenly Father truly gives us trials for a reason and that we should rejoice in them because it is through our trials that he shapes us to be the person he wants us to be. Consistently faithful is something that I am trying to be also. Remembering these things. Staying possitive. Faith is like walking up an escellator going down. If we loose our faith and let fear creep in for one second then you digress. It takes work to get you back to where you were. But you will have learnt from it and hopefully you will understand the importance of being consistent more in the future. Life is for learning so lets keep moving forward!

So some awesome things of being in this area right now is that everyone is picking things from their gardens and giving them to us! We get fresh apricots, carrots, beans, beetroot, eggs, goats milk, onion, hair cuts lol, and huge zuccinis like 50cms long!!! Lucky I love Zucchini cause we have a ton of it right now. It's fun!

So this morning we went and helped sister Facer feed 3 baby goats.Then we went up the road and taught Marty Hunt cause it was the only time she had available that fitted in our schedule and I didnt have time to prepare a lesson cause it was early so I really had to rely on promptings. It went so well. I taught her the Doctrine of Christ... Faith, Repentance, Baptism, HG and Enduring to the end.
I was able to think of scriptures and experiences and ask her questions and Sister Krauss even added something that was perfect and that really doesnt happen that often! It was so awesome. Blessings of sacrifice! Heavenly Father recognises our weaknesses and makes up for them.

Oh my goodness! We had the coolest most guided lesson with the Martinez family too. I got them to stand on one side of the room and takes turns making different decisions (I gave them the scenarios and they either stepped forward or backward). A group decision was baptism. Then they had a few decisons to make after that then I read them this thing I got in twin Falls from Martha Anns mum that just basically tells you over and over again that Heavenly Father loves you and is happy when we make decisions back to him.The Holy Ghost seriously gave me that idea and it is just funny how random things, quotes and other things seem to fit into different peoples lessons. Well the girls want to be baptised and we are planning on having a lesson just with the dad so that we can teach him and talk to him a little better about how he feels! I am so happy. Hopefully that we be happening in the near future.

Well I better go. Wow that was way longer than I realised. Sorry if I bored you!!

I love you all and miss you all!!!

Sister Natalie Huckfeldt