First off I hope all of you fathers had a wonderful Father's Day yesterday especially my wonderful dad! I am so grateful to have him part of my life! Love you dad!
Another busy week has passed by. I'm not sure how it all comes and goes so fast! I am so excited for today because we get to go to Eagle Pass and play soccer on the border of Mexico! I have wanted to do this my whole mission and now I get to! We had so many amazing things happen this week. First off Kris Poff got baptized! Oh how happy I am for her. I have come to love her so much since we've been teaching her and she has come a long way. I'm so excited for her and her family and the things that the Lord has in store for her! She went to Utah to be baptized there with the rest of her family and friends so sadly we weren't able to be there but, we were able to facetime her and she looked so happy and was glowing! I can't wait to see her this week when she gets back! She already has some family names to go to the temple for! Oh how I love Family History and Temple work!
Funny story for the week. About a week ago my companion really wanted to get her hair cut because apparently it's been a while since she's had it cut. Well there isn't a hair cut place around here. The closest one is about an hour away so.. finally the other day my companion was getting anxious and said to me "Sister Mann will you just cut my
hair"? I told her I had never in my life cut anyone's hair, I would be so sad if I messed it up! She then said, "It's not too hard" and explained to me what she wanted. As we went into our bathroom and got her all set up she began to get nervous, and secretly I was too, but I didn't want to show it. Long story short..I DID IT! I cut her hair exactly the way she wanted it. Haha She loved it. That was quite the experience.
We saw another miracle this week. Ana, one of our recent converts, has another daughter Brianna that we started teaching. She is about 15 years old and we taught her the Restoration this week. We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and she's been asking Ana all sorts of
questions and it's giving Ana an opportunity to teach her! It's awesome! We hope she continues to progress.
On Friday Abby Guerrero, a member from our branch, came out with us. It was so awesome! We went to an appointment that we had set up and they weren't home, so Abby told us she had some friends around there that she would love for us to teach the gospel to.
So of course we did! We saw many miracles that night and Abby was so excited to see her friends asking us questions and finding out more. I want to share one miracle that happened that night. We went by a family friend of hers. Her name was Ana Sulikea. She is an older woman and when we went by she was outside doing a yard sale. We started talking with her and got on the topic of family history. She told us all kids of stories that her grandparents and great grandparents had told her. We gave her a family history card and tied in how families are import and that we can be together with them forever. She said to us, "How did you know I needed this"? (Miracle) She's going to start working on her family history and we are going to
go back this week and help her with that!
My companion's bike broke this week so we have been walking a lot. Luckily people are outside so we can talk to them. It's still pretty hot and every day it's in the 100's but it's all worth it!
This week we had the wonderful opportunity to go to San Antonio for Zone Conference. It was amazing! Elder Cornish from the 70 and his wife came to speak to us and train us on a few things along with our Mission President and his wife. We talked a lot about the importance
of working with members and what that means. We also talked about how to quote "Love people into the gospel". Each missionary at this Conference was to prepare a 2-3 minute talk before hand incase Elder Cornish called on us to share our thoughts on this subject. As I was
preparing for this I was able to ponder what that phrase meant. To "Love others into the gospel". Elder Henry B. Eyring once said, "Thousands of times every day members of the Church are watched, by people curious to know something about our lives. Because we are under covenant to be a witness, we will try to tell them how the gospel has brought us happiness. What they think of what we say may depend largely on how much they sense we care for them.
That was true when King Lamoni met Ammon, as we have it described in the Book of Mormon. Ammon had been captured by guards and brought to the king, who could take his life. But apparently within minutes King Lamoni recognized that Ammon cared enough for him to want to serve him. Ammon said, when offered high station, “Nay, but I will be thy servant” (Alma 17:25). Within days the king knew that Ammon was willing to risk his life for him. And then came the opportunity for Ammon to be a witness of God to the king.
Those we meet will feel the love that springs from our long practice in keeping a covenant to “mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort” (Mosiah 18:9). It may not be in hours or days as it was for King Lamoni, but they will feel our love after testing our hearts. And when they find our concern sincere, the Holy Spirit can more easily touch them to allow us to teach and to testify, as it did for Ammon.
I have learned from my own experiences that to love some one into the gospel is to patiently teach, live as an example of the believers, serve, and immediately show your sincere concern for the well being of another.
I have grown such a great love for the people here in Texas. I have seen many lives change including my own. So that many others may receive the same blessings let us all continue to love others into the gospel.
Elder Cornish bore testimony that God loves us more then we know and we are all worth something. I echo his testimony. I know that is true! He quoted a scripture in D&C 18:10 "Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God". This scripture brought light to my eyes and happiness to my heart. Please trust that God loves you. Trust that he has a curriculum for your life. There is one way to be truly happy and that is Gods way.
I hope yall have a wonderful week! I love you.
Con Amor,
Hermana Mann
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