So this week was a little different!!
We got snowed in for a week. Church was canceled so we got an additional 3 hours of studies!! Haha we got 12+ inches of snow. We also experienced an ice storm. Also it rained freezing rain. Like i use to think that was just a term, but it's a real thing!! Yesterday we got to drive for a few hours and as the street lights shined on the glassy ice it looked like a lake! It was sweet.
We had some great lessons on Facebook. We got our WiFi from our neighbors, so that was nice.
I was able to deep clean the whole apartment. Which felt so good! It's so old.
We made snow angels, baked everything we had in our house, and went a little crazy.
We have some great members though. We were able to go out a couple times with members!!
They actually took us shopping as well as the elders because we were so low on food.
We have Alley, who 14, and is getting baptized on March 8th. We had a great lesson with her! We had a young women, Kyla, come and pick us up. Then we picked Alley up and we got ice-cream then had a lesson. We gave her the Children s BOM to read and a little study journal. We are still having many lessons with her to prepare her to be baptized!! We are so excited!!
Since we didn't have church, we were able to drive our car close to people by us. So we went up to Lisa, our recent convert that got baptized last week. But wasn't able to get the holy ghost because church was canceled. So she was bummed. So we got popcorn and downloaded the hour long Restoration and watched that with them. The spirit was so strong.
Lucian is one of our investigators that just turned 9!! So for his birthday we went over and gave him a CTR ring. We told him it had special powers! So that was good. We also gave him the Childrens Book of Mormon too. He started to read right then, he loved it! It makes my heart so happy when you teach people and they just soak it all up!! His guardian he lives with, Sister Wahls, is a less active. So we have to wait until his mom is out of rehab to baptize him. She will be out in a month or so!! YAY!
We had some interesting facebook lessons. One with Jo, who is the investigator, and Sister Murray who is Jo's mom and is a recent convert!! Sometimes the recent converts share wayyyyyy to much with investigators. hahah half the people we taught on facebook I have never even meet!
Our neighbors came over nad gave us some fried bread and said "Happy Fat Tuesday!" we figured out that was a real thing. It has to do with lent and with the Catholics.
I am so grateful that we have had so many opportunities to share the gospel on facebook.
But President Andersen just went to a mission conference where they decided that we are going to get off facebook for 2 months as a mission. We are also getting new ipads in a few weeks with different software and settings. So it will be a new start! So just warning you in advance in a few weeks i will be off facebook probably until i come home.
This week was a little off, but i am so grateful that we still had so many opportunities to share the gospel. We had a total of 18 lessons, so that was even a miracle.
"We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for
God’s purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable."
I loved this quote as i had many hours to study this week.
How do you let your faith grow?
Are you waiting patiently for his timing?
I love you all!! Have a great week:)
Sister Gates
The day I went crazy from staying inside all week and cleaned and organized everything. Snow day probably.
Lisa's baptism!!
Kyla picked us up and our investigator Alley for a lesson. We gave her the children's BOM and she was a proud owner!!
The icicles came down and dented our cooker! Haha so crazy.
We needed a little break..... So we gathered items of natural and spelled this out? Haha
Scraping Sister Wahls car. Then Sister Wahls patio fell because of the snow and ice!! Then We gave Lucian a CTR ring for his birthday!!
Church was canceled so we got an additional 3 hours of studies!! Niceeeeeeee #cabinfeverfordays
