wow what a week! so we found out yesterday that sister edwards and I are staying in bridgewater together for my last 3 weeks and then she will be going to halifax to be in a trio for the rest of the transfer and then she will be coming back to bridgewater and training!! so that's exciting! I 'm so happy that I get to stay here! they are taking elders out of bridgewater and so we will be working with the people the elders are teaching. they are teaching one man named bayne right now and they have been working with him for awhile. We had a FHE with them and some different members on monday and bayne is just so ready to be baptized but he just needs the courage to take that step!! He is such a sweet man and has been through so much. he made this comment about how strong he felt the spirit at our last FHE (We had watched president nelson bearing his testimony in Jerusalem) and all four of us missionaries just had smiles up to our ears. Theresa was at Fhe too. We've taught her three time this past week but she is leaving back to halifax on thursday. She has so many different obstacles to overcome but she knows that she can find stability in the gospel.
I don't have enough time to say all that I want to say but this week was hard each day that we didnt' hear from mary and vienna I found myself getting more and more sad. Long story short, we still haven't heard from them but I am feeling much better now. I have a stronger testimony of fasting and the importance of personal scripture study. I know that God pushes us to the edge of our faith becasue that is where the growing happens. and just like joseph smith before he had the first vision, we too in life experience the bad before the good. And often when things are at their worst it is because something so amazing is just around the corner. Satan wants to discourage us from enduring and continuing to press forwards. But we NEED to "press forward with a perfect brightness of hope!" and that is called patience. Patience is not just enduring but it is facing delay, opposition, or trouble with hope! and hope is having confidence that all things will work together for God's good (which is our good because God has our best intentions in mind). Like moses when he parted the red sea, before it parted he first had to show his faith and commitment by stepping into the water before it parted. WE too have to show God our commitment before we can witness the miracles in our lives! the miracle that I witnessed today I think from my commitment to have more hope is we got a media referral, his name is scott and we are meeting with him tonight!!
Love sister wood!!
another fav part of the week is a member who we thougtht was dead came up and talked to us in dairy queen, that was not expected. WE are happy she's alive:)
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