Happy Father's Day next week to you Dads, I hope you have a wonderful day!!
We
had so many miracles this week, I enjoyed so much. All I can say is
that things are just awesome and it keeps getting better, which only
means it's going to be even worse to leave! We had zone training
meeting, zone conference, and then stake conference this week so we went
to Macon four days in a row. Very spiritual week. This was the last
zone conference I will get to attend while on my mission and I knew that
and was bracing myself for that all week. At the end of zone conference
there is time set aside for missionaries whose last ZC it is to bear
their testimonies. It was a hard realization to come to but I was
grateful for the opportunity to bear my testimony and I felt the power
behind others' testimonies as well. President Cottle extended an
invitation/challenge at ZC for all of us to reread the Book of Mormon in
90 days and to mark the doctrine of Christ in it--faith, repentance,
the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end so it will be our
'Doctrine of Christ Book of Mormon.' I won't be here in 90 days, but I
am trying to speed up the challenge. Each Book of Mormon had our name
and mission symbol in it so it was very personal and cool. I'm always
grateful for invitations that truly will help us come closer to Christ
and strengthen our own testimonies.
We are working with some really amazing people right now. Rhonda, Eric and Carlos are still on date for baptism for July 18th
so it should be a wonderful day. We are also teaching a girl name
Ashley who is dating a member of the Church. She's 19 and it's
definitely different teaching someone my own age. We're teaching another
19 year old named Tonieshia and she came to Stake Conference so that
was awesome. And oh my goodness, Evon!!! Evon is the funniest lady I
love her! So we went back last week and asked her how she liked church
and her eyes got all big and she about jumped out of her chair and she
was like "I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!" She puts the biggest smile on my face :)
We taught her about the Plan of Salvation and she loved that as
well--called it a "Can't Lose Plan" because of how amazing Heavenly
Father is. We invited her to be baptized and she said yes :) Later in
the week we were teaching the Plan of Salvation to a man named Terrance
(who has also been coming to church and is on date for baptism in
August) and the young woman that was with us described the Celestial
Kingdom as a second chance--when she first said that I wanted to clarify
because we really don't get second chances per say, because we are
accountable for our knowledge and actions on earth, but her thought was
really interesting to me: she said that when we get to the Celestial
Kingdom, we continue on with life only this time, it's guaranteed
happiness. No sadness, hard times, misery, nothing! We get to live life
and have absolute and complete JOY!!!! I love that, I believe that
strongly and long for the day when we can all be there :)
We've
still been calling Brother Ramsey and Heavenly Father continues to
bless us for that. One of those blessings being the elders offering to
call every other day so we don't die. Hahaha. So they are taking Monday,
Wednesday and Friday and we are taking Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Brother Ramsey told us to pray for Heavenly Father to be tough on him,
to slap him upside the head because people have to be blunt with him or
he doesn't get it. Um, be careful what you pray for. Because we went
home right after that and prayed and got an answer way faster than I
expected. So, bold is what he got. We went back the next day and had
three invitations/challenges for him that are kickin' his butt I'm sure
right now, but I think they will work! When we talked to him he just
looked at us and was like "Y'all were a lot nicer 3 weeks ago..."
hahaha. But he laughed because he knows he needs the changes we're
trying to help him make. He said he's been thinking about some of them
already. Ready, Set, Go! He's going to be able to do this. The goal is
the temple and we know he can make it! We are bold and loving, so
technically not all mean. :)
Also, we've been
working with a woman named Nina since I got here. Her husband Chris says
he's agnostic but he totally isn't, and we've been focusing on helping
both of them and they are both really coming around. We had the best
lesson with them last night since I got here. We learned about Chris's
testimony of Jesus Christ as his Savior and about Nina's testimony of
the restored gospel. Oh it was such an awesome lesson! The Spirit was
there for sure and we are keeping Nina's goal for her baptismal date as July 11th :) Wonderful! I love life! :)
Well,
I don't want to forget anyone, but Mom did give a list of some
birthdays and anniversaries coming up this month so to the ones I have
right now I can tell you now :) Happy birthday this week to some amazing
family members, Aunt Kathy, Aunt Lesha, Uncle Chris and Kenneth! I love
all of you and I hope you have some great birthdays!!! :)
A couple quotes from some church signs....
"Only dead fish go with the flow"
"You make the choice, God makes the change"
And
one I recently read that I loved, "A man never stands taller than when
upon his knees." So true! This gospel is true, the book is blue.... I
can't remember the rest of the poem Jessi Lopez sent.... but it was
good. Haha. Remember to be humble, diligent, loving and obedient. Work
hard, be safe, have a great week! Love y'all!
All my love,
Sister Kaylee Applegate :)
Should've taken a better picture, but we didn't and I needed something
to send home :) Sister Walker hit her one month mark this past Saturday!
Wahoo! Time surely does fly when you're having fun
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