General Conference was GREAT!! But I would have to say that the Sisters Conference was one of my favorite meetings. The spirit was just strong and I was able to feel the love that Heavenly Father has for me and all of His children. Sadly I missed the Sunday afternoon session, just because it starts at 10 pm here. So I am excited to watch that..if we get the chance. haha I thought it was really cool that a lot of speakers spoke about the importance of personal revelation and receiving a confirmation of the revelation that the prophet and apostles get for the church. It's one thing to follow blindly and another to willingly and faithfully follow the prophet. Let us all accept our trials and set backs and use the Atonement to become better. I have learned recently how important trials are in our lives. I have probably already said this before but let me say it again. No one wants to get off of a comfortable Lazy Boy couch. But if you don't get up, you can't progress. So every once in a while, or maybe a lot of the times, we are put in a hard classroom wooden chair so that way we will get up and move, progress and become who the Lord wants us to become.
This week was a lot better. We had some great lessons and we were able to find 2 new investigators. MIRACLE TIME. We hadn't had dinner late on Thursday night and we decided that we wanted some Chinese. After trying to find a decent Chinese restaurant, we ordered our food and headed home to eat. As we were biking this lady caught my eye...of course I felt that I needed to talk to her but I kept riding...Worst feeling EVER btw. At the end of the street and just had it with my selfishness (I was hungry) and turned around. I talked to this lady, named Besrat, and she ended up letting us in. Turns out that they had just moved here and they pretty much don't have anything of their own. We taught a short lesson to her and her 17 yr old daughter and made a return appt. and as we were praying for them I had the feeling to give them some of our Chinese food. Before we left I gave them some of our Chinese food and you could just see their faces light up. They really needed some warm, good food. It felt so great. We then had a great lesson with them the next day and invited them to be baptized, they said that if they came to know it was true then they would get baptized! So COOL.
We met with Susan (the american nonmember) and Henk (also not a member) and we had american pancakes on Sunday morning. SOOOO GOOOD. I felt like home. We answered their questions and invited them to read in the BOM and they said they would. HA! And she said she wasn't interesed in the church. haha
I can't remember what else happened but those were some of the great miracles that we saw. Mel is getting baptized on sunday! SOOO pumped. (: Pray for her and her family that they will continue supporting her. Love you all and can't wait to hear from you next week!
LOVE YA AND MISS YA!
Zuster Kohlert
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