A crazy week

Thankyou for your emails! I went down the list in replying and I needed to start this one but hopefully I will have time to get back to all that wrote me!

What a crazy week last week was! I was stressed out of my mind but so much of it was for a good reason! Between Wednesday and Sunday we taught 15 lessons!!! Plus on the new training system we have to study untill 11am so that was an hour less each day... plus i pretty much have to do everything myself as my trainee needs a little extra help in training... like phone calls etc. Plus we had a bunch to do for the baptism!! The baptism was amazing!!! Happy!!! Romiro and Michael were so excited and the Spirit was really there! Ahhh it just makes me so happy! It is amazing being able to be there from the beginning and just see their conversion process! There really is no greater joy! Like in the story of King Lamoni's father. He was willing to give up half of his kingdom for his life and then for the joy that comes from the gospel he was willing to give up everything! Ahhh ok any way Sister Westover came back for it and it went so well! We organised food for after it too so everyone got to mingle for a little bit!

After the Baptism we had an appointment with Anthony and we were running late.. I had prewarned him earlier that day that we might be so that was ok. Normally we meet at a members house.. one of his friends houses cause he has a ton of friends that are members and he will normally set it up unless we already have.. anyway neither of us had told the people whose house we thought we were meeting at about it so he got there and they had a whole ton of family there.. woops awkward! So I frantically (while still trying to pack up after the baptism) started calling people! To add to the stress of that jam packed crazy day no one was answering! Then sister Westover suggested sister Hulbert... she was someone we had had dinner with and she has shared her amazing conversion story! I called her and she answered straight away! She said she would be there in 20 minutes! Wow!

She was sooo amazing..That was definately meant to be. He could relate so well becuase he is going through a similar process like she did. He said in that lesson too that every time that he thinks about what happened to Joseph Smith it makes more sense. He is getting so close and Heavenly Father is really showing him that! I really am excited for the moment he knows he needs to get baptised. He is praying! I really hope he figures out that he already knows.

Ok so being a trainer is hard! But I actually have it a little harder. Sister Krauss is very special and requires a lot more. At the moment we are working on interpersonal skills..eg how she should sit in lessons and church, how she should act in public so that she can effectively show that she is a representative of Christ, what she should wear, how she should talk eg slowly and softly so that she and the investigator have time to feel the Spirit. I am also helping her learn the lessons. I got her to go through and write down dot points of things that stand out to her in each principle of the first lesson. This morning I had her read me the dot point and bare her testimony of it in a way that it would make sense to the investigator and so that she can see that she can do that in the lesson when I teach a principle.. she can pick out the key principle I have taught and bare her testimony. Some she had to repractice a few times but she is really getting there. Plus I asked her practice how she should sit and talk as she is doing it so that she can get the hang of it. We are just taking things really slowly. One day at a time. It is hard but I am just trying to follow the spirit and use PMG but break it down so that she can understand. I am telling her the positive things that she is doing and she is improving!

At the moment I am mostly teaching by myself and that is stressful, hoping I havent missed something or that they can understand it. I am excited for when i can let her start stepping in but that is a little way off. Things are good there though. I am just trying to stay positive and I am thankful that I had a blessing. It really helped be able to remember that this is for a reason and that God is helping with my decisions in this process. I am greatful that I can trust him because I dont know if I could do it alone.

I love you all and I dont have time to write back so I will put on the top of the list for next week.

Love Sister Huckfeldt