Transfer 6, Week 1:
I'M TRAINING!.......AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH:)
Dear Family and Friends,
So I found out last week that BOTH Sister S and I would be TRAINING a new missionary FROM THE MTC! I should've known that my life already reflected/mirrored Hermana J. B's life before the mission, that on the mission I'd mirror her too... haha. She's training as well. I ran into her last week on an investigator lesson--- she looks great and is such a light to all around her. Grateful for her friendship in my life.
So excited. We also found out that we would be moving. Somehow (due to miracles of course) we finished teaching and committing D to baptism (he got baptized this last Friday and told us the minute he was in the water he felt the past 50 years of mistakes/guilt/build up all wash away-- SO COOL), packed, moved in the little time we had in between assignments and snow, and voila. Ready for Wednesday morning!
My new companion is Sister O from Las Vegas, New Mexico!!!!! She is an angel, and an absolutely incredible missionary already. She finds it so easy to call people, approach people, testify of truth, and commit people to act. Wow. If only every missionary came prepared with that toolbox. Most of us have to learn it the hard way..... on the job training. :) We're already great friends. She has so much faith and it is very refreshing for me as a *slightly* older missionary.
Funny thing my investigator from Croatia said to us "It's like you, Sister Fisher, are a Fisher of men!! And I'm your little fish!!" Hahahaha! Thank you, Dad, for the good last name, and great application in the scriptures.
I was reading in Jesus the Christ book (the other personal study), and it spoke of the miracle of the exact amount of tax money found in the first fish that Peter would find in the river.
Matthew 17:27 "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of amoney: that take, and bgive unto them for me and thee."
God has the power to take care of us. He does. He has the power as we put Him first in our lives, to make all things work out for our good. Financial, physical, emotional, spiritual--- you name it. Let us have faith to put Him first in our lives. All things will work together for our good. As we seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, all things will fall into place according to God's plan, which is the best plan.
Cool story of the week--- our friend S, a searching for truth Baptist from Tennessee (also a music educator haah) was here on Temple Square last Saturday, and my companion and I at the time approached him and talked with him. He was applying to the U's graduate program, and at Temple Square, has met missionaries before etc. etc. BUT what was different this time? His heart was open. After he spoke with us for about an hour and a half, he went and BOUGHT his own quad combination set of scriptures. We've spoken with him a few times since then, and he told us that he's read so much about the Book of Mormon, that it was finally time to read it. And this time, not to prove it incorrect, but to really ask if this was God's word, if it was something that would bring him closer to Christ. So with Sister O, we've been teaching him as well. He's incredible. Since he has been reading it with those intentions he loves it. He feels enlightened by it. He said he feels closer to God. He plans on finishing the Book of Mormon in the next two weeks! He said that since he spoke with us at Temple Square, and as he's read the Book of Mormon, sentences that form in his head that would have profanity in it that he would normally say, he re-thinks it, and it comes out a more pleasant way. We testified to him that the Spirit is already changing him and bringing him closer to Christ. That's the beautiful thing about the Gospel--- it changes us. Usually from the inside out. We taught him about the Word of Wisdom and a few other commandments, and when we spoke of a few things that we would commit him to change in his life to feel even closer to God, he said "Well hold on real quick- let me get a piece of paper and something to write with". Haha! He wanted them ALL!!! :) He's going to church this Sunday for the first time and has been avoiding drinking coffee all week. Pray for him to have the strength to quit those.
I love my mission. Three of the sisters in my class all got sent for their 4 "Outbound" months this transfer (San Jose CA, Chicago and somewhere else....?)--- eeeeek! It's coming up. Yikes. Hope I get to stay with Sister O for a whole 12 weeks though- and April General Conference! But we will see. The Lord knows best, and that's all I want---- what He wants.
Love y'all so much,
Sister Fisher
So I found out last week that BOTH Sister S and I would be TRAINING a new missionary FROM THE MTC! I should've known that my life already reflected/mirrored Hermana J. B's life before the mission, that on the mission I'd mirror her too... haha. She's training as well. I ran into her last week on an investigator lesson--- she looks great and is such a light to all around her. Grateful for her friendship in my life.
So excited. We also found out that we would be moving. Somehow (due to miracles of course) we finished teaching and committing D to baptism (he got baptized this last Friday and told us the minute he was in the water he felt the past 50 years of mistakes/guilt/build up all wash away-- SO COOL), packed, moved in the little time we had in between assignments and snow, and voila. Ready for Wednesday morning!
My new companion is Sister O from Las Vegas, New Mexico!!!!! She is an angel, and an absolutely incredible missionary already. She finds it so easy to call people, approach people, testify of truth, and commit people to act. Wow. If only every missionary came prepared with that toolbox. Most of us have to learn it the hard way..... on the job training. :) We're already great friends. She has so much faith and it is very refreshing for me as a *slightly* older missionary.
Funny thing my investigator from Croatia said to us "It's like you, Sister Fisher, are a Fisher of men!! And I'm your little fish!!" Hahahaha! Thank you, Dad, for the good last name, and great application in the scriptures.
I was reading in Jesus the Christ book (the other personal study), and it spoke of the miracle of the exact amount of tax money found in the first fish that Peter would find in the river.
Matthew 17:27 "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of amoney: that take, and bgive unto them for me and thee."
God has the power to take care of us. He does. He has the power as we put Him first in our lives, to make all things work out for our good. Financial, physical, emotional, spiritual--- you name it. Let us have faith to put Him first in our lives. All things will work together for our good. As we seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, all things will fall into place according to God's plan, which is the best plan.
Cool story of the week--- our friend S, a searching for truth Baptist from Tennessee (also a music educator haah) was here on Temple Square last Saturday, and my companion and I at the time approached him and talked with him. He was applying to the U's graduate program, and at Temple Square, has met missionaries before etc. etc. BUT what was different this time? His heart was open. After he spoke with us for about an hour and a half, he went and BOUGHT his own quad combination set of scriptures. We've spoken with him a few times since then, and he told us that he's read so much about the Book of Mormon, that it was finally time to read it. And this time, not to prove it incorrect, but to really ask if this was God's word, if it was something that would bring him closer to Christ. So with Sister O, we've been teaching him as well. He's incredible. Since he has been reading it with those intentions he loves it. He feels enlightened by it. He said he feels closer to God. He plans on finishing the Book of Mormon in the next two weeks! He said that since he spoke with us at Temple Square, and as he's read the Book of Mormon, sentences that form in his head that would have profanity in it that he would normally say, he re-thinks it, and it comes out a more pleasant way. We testified to him that the Spirit is already changing him and bringing him closer to Christ. That's the beautiful thing about the Gospel--- it changes us. Usually from the inside out. We taught him about the Word of Wisdom and a few other commandments, and when we spoke of a few things that we would commit him to change in his life to feel even closer to God, he said "Well hold on real quick- let me get a piece of paper and something to write with". Haha! He wanted them ALL!!! :) He's going to church this Sunday for the first time and has been avoiding drinking coffee all week. Pray for him to have the strength to quit those.
I love my mission. Three of the sisters in my class all got sent for their 4 "Outbound" months this transfer (San Jose CA, Chicago and somewhere else....?)--- eeeeek! It's coming up. Yikes. Hope I get to stay with Sister O for a whole 12 weeks though- and April General Conference! But we will see. The Lord knows best, and that's all I want---- what He wants.
Love y'all so much,
Sister Fisher
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