First off! On Saturday we got our transfer calls....and Sister Stevens and I are both staying in Tenino!!! I'm so excited!!! This is gonna be the 2 time when I've had a companion for more than 1 transfer! Well, Sister Halll til the ET, but besides that just my baby Sister Downs has been my companion for 12 weeks!! Hopefully there won't be an ET to ruin this one! Sister Stevens and I are having such a good time, and we're being blessed to find so many incredible people!!
This week we had the baptism of Linda Goolsby. She is so awesome!! I haven't felt the spirit so strong at a baptism in a long time!! It was so incredible, we had more non-members there than members, she invited her friends and family, hopefully we'll be able to start teaching them. Well, her granddaughter, not her friend she's from Aberdeen! Anyway, she got confirmed yesterday, and it's like she's already been a member for years, she is so awesome!
Another awesome thing that happened yesterday is that Eddie got the Priesthood!!!! Bishop told us he came up to him at church last week and said, "So I've already decided I'm taking this next year to work and save up money for my mission and prepare, and I'm gonna need the priesthood to go on a mission, so when can I get that?" haha!! Yeah, he is so awesome!!! I haven't really been able to see recent converts progress, it will be awesome to stay here another week, and see all those we've been able to teach, grow in the gospel!! I'm so excited!!!
Also this week we got some awesome referrals! The coolest is the girlfriend of this boy in the Centralia ward. She is 17 has been coming to church for a while, and her adopted grandpa is a bishop in the Winlock ward nearby. We said, oh so he wouldn't mind baptizing you...and she said, "yeah, he'd love to do that, he'll totally have to!" We haven't even taught her yet! She is elect, I can feel it!!
Man, God truly is a God of miracles! I see that everyday!! I'm so grateful that I get to be His missionary and do His work!! Especially at this time, he has prepared SO MANY of his children to accept the Gospel. We aren't hastening the work, he is, and we just need enough people to teach who HE is preparing!!
I am so grateful for this Gospel! It truly is Jesus Christ's church fully restored to the earth!! I know that God is our Heavenly Father, that He loves us and that he sent His only begotten son to pay the price for each of our sins!! I am so grateful for that knowledge, that even though life sucks, it can get better. I'm so grateful to know too that this life in the whole scheme of things is so short!! After this life we will be able to be PERFECT!!! It will be a great day!!! I won't ever get sick, that would be nice!! :)
Well, I hope that you all have a great week, and remember all the blessings that God has given you!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister Thomas
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