Daughter of a King

One reality of missionary work is that sometimes you need to recognize the best way to be using your time and decide where your priorities are. We've been doing a lot of that this week, and as a result....well, we dropped or were dropped by 7 investigators. Most of that happened yesterday, and that was rough on us. But I know that God is opening a way for us to have more time to teach people who are ready now. And these other people might be ready later. I definitely have a testimony of planting seeds. 

But Josh has a new baptismal date scheduled for March 24, and when we went through the interview questions with him, he got super giddy and excited! He still has a few things to work on this week to get him to his 100% goal (he currently believes himself to be about 95%) and it was pretty neat because yesterday at church, he sought out the Elders and asked them to give him a blessing for strength. It was a neat blessing, and I love the power of the priesthood. It's been a good minute since I've been a part of a priesthood blessing, so that was extra nice. He's got this though! 

The Elders also baptized Gary on Saturday! Gary is 76 and has been investigating the church for forever. An eternigator for sure. But a few weeks back, he had a heart attack and it opened his eyes. He wasn't going to let anything stop him from being baptized. It was a neat baptism and Gary has been on the verge of tears all weekend and is so excited to tell everyone about his testimony. He's so close to the spirit. So sweet, and awesome for the Elders. 

Bonnie's baptismal date is still April 8, upon her request. And that's a-okay. She's still progressing well, and loved Gary's baptism. It helped clear up some of her questions about her own. Love that lady. And she's officially over 30 days sober!!!

Sister Lamb and I were blessed to teach Relief Society yesterday. We talked about being daughters of God. It was neat because all of the talks in sacrament meeting correlated with our whole lesson. I got to share about being taught by my sweet mom just how important I am and that Heavenly Father has a plan for me. So grateful for all of the people in my life who helped me to feel His love, and to teach me that I can turn to Him whenever I need to. Especially my parents. So yeah, you better believe Sister Lamb and I cried when we talked about our moms. We closed the lesson by listening to "Daughter of a King" and having everyone write out things they love about themselves for the entire song. Man, Heavenly Father sure knew what he was doing when he made all of us. We all have excellent, divine qualities. I sure needed that lesson. 

We are all children of a Heavenly Father who loves us. How wonderful it is to know that. And to share it.

Pictures: 

Biloxi Sisters and Ocean Springs Sisters- we went shopping last P-Day

Bonnie and her super cool house 

Elder Pierre-Louis and myself matching for district meeting

Biloxi District is on fire. Seriously gonna miss these cool cats

That moment when you try to get a picture with the Beeston's and Josh hops in and attempts to give you bunny ears....haha!

The Beeston's!!

Bonnie's mom, Joan. She's absolutely hilarious. 

More Bonnie!

We finished our 30 day push-up and sit-up challenge. So we're ripped now. 

It rained on us-again.

Another pic with the Beeston's when we took them cookies.

 Sister Lamb and I totally matched without meaning to.

 I ruined our cookie bars for the baptism by buying evaporated milk instead of sweetened condensed