The Christmas Party was good... we just ate lunch at our
Zone Leaders place... they live with a member and the member let us come over
and have the party there. Then we did a white elephant gift exchange with
random things that we find in the missionary apartments...lol pretty
interesting stuff that you can find in these apartments! Anyway, the rest of
the time the Elders just goofed off... lol there was magic tricks, some
were walking up and down t he stairs on their hands, balancing chairs on
their chins, playing ukulalis and harmonicas, and at one point there was a
rubber chicken... ha ha ... we had quite the assortment of
entertainment. It was great fun. I am suprised at how comfortable i am
around all these other missionaries, i mean not totally comfortable, but
comfortable enough.
My emotions are still out of
whack... one day there are at an all time high and then at an all time low... I
am all for roller coasters, but this is a roller coaster ride that i want
off of...
So we were blessed to have yet
another baptism on Saturday!! And we have at least 2 more lined up for the
22nd... i say at least, because the Lavoie family that we have been teaching
has allowed their 11 and 12 year old children to get baptized, and we have
been working on the parents and we are pretty sure that they will be
baptized with them as well, so that will be 4 total and if we can get the
Dad to allow the 9 year old to be baptized too, then their entire family
(with the exception of their youngest who is 6) will be baptized
together on the 22nd!! how exciting is that!!
We had a pretty POWERFUL lesson with them on Thursday night.
Again there was NO doubt that that family knows that this gospel is true. The
spirit was so strong, i think that even the hardest heart would have felt this.
I am constantly amazed at the great miracles that i get to
witness each week. So indescribable, and so numerous that i can not write
and describe the wonder of it all!!
Anyway, i better get going, i still
have shopping to do. But i do want to let y'all know that i do have a testimony
of this gospel Helaman 5:12 has just recently become personally meaningful to
me...
"and now my sons remember, remember that it is upon the
rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your
foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his shafts in the whirlwind,
yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have
no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo,
because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a
foundation whereon in men build THEY CANNOT FALL."
I know this is true, because i have had some very tough
times out here, but no matter how bad my day gets and no matter how low Satan
brings me...it all comes back to what i know to be true...and i know that i
have a testimony, my foundation, and it is build on and centered in Christ, i
know he lives, i know his gospel is true, and it is this that keeps me from
giving up. There is hope and i am promised that i CANNOT fall. If this church
were not true, i would not be out here still, because nothing save it be
the true and everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ could keep me out here. It
is great and it is all true!!
Will you please send my love and deepest gratitude to the
15th ward, I've been thinking alot about them lately!
love you all,
Sister Nielsen
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