November 18, 2013

November 18

Hello my family and friends! I hope that you are all doing well this day and that you are happy and enjoying life! Thanks for all your emails. I say this all the time, but it really is great to hear from everyone.

 

This week has been a good week. We are still talking to lots of people. Sister Denney finally got her bike, so we have been riding the bikes. I love riding the bikes. You get to places quicker, but you don't contact has much as you would on a bus. So what we have decided to do is ride our bikes during the day and ride the buses at night. That way we still can  contact people. We do contact on our bikes too, but you drive right through people just like you would in a car. Sometimes riding bikes is good because people will look at us sisters with a weird look and we will stop at share with them who we are and why we are out on bikes. It is pretty fun!

 

Tracy is a new investigator who we picked up last week. She walked into church last Sunday. She was curious to know what was going on and who we were. She stayed for RS and for Sacrament meeting. She loved it and said that she would come back again. We also had a RS activity last Thursday and she brought her 12 year old daughter. They both had a really good time. Tracy came again this past Sunday. She, however, could only stay for RS. We are going to have dinner with her and her daughter tonight with our ward mission leader and his family. Sister Long and Tracy have connected really well. It will be a fun night. Tracy has a lot of questions and we hope to be able to answer her questions. She loves the ward and is always saying how warm and welcoming everyone is. We pray and hope that everything will go well tonight and that Tracy and Coco (they are Chinese, but speak really good English) will want to take the missionary lessons.

 

We also gave a tour this past week with two Chinese high school kids. They are seniors and have been helping out the Chinese missionaries with their English class. They are doing this because they like it and plus it will look good on their applications for College. The tour went super well and the spirit was there. One of the boys, Victor asked a lot of good questions and you could tell that he was feeling the spirit. When we were in the Chapel it was so peaceful and quiet. Victor said that he could feel something and that he felt so much peace. He felt like he needed to whisper. It was really cool to see that and to hear that from him. We explained that what he was feeling was the Holy Ghost and than explained the role of the spirit. I haven't given a tour in a very long time, but this one was probably one of the best ones and it is all because the spirit was there and leading the way.

 

These few simple things have taught me a lot this past week. I have learned that it is important to always prepare yourself to have the spirit with you. If you take the time to study and prepare for the needs of others. If you do this then you don't need to worry. The spirit will fill your mind with the things that you need to share. This is what happened with me. I know that with out the spirit there is no way I could do this great and marvelous work. I know that God has created a plan for all of his children and I am here to prepare myself so that I can find those people that only I can touch. I am grateful for all of the spiritual experiences that I have been given and I am so grateful for what I will learn as I finish my mission strong. I love this gospel so much and I am so happy to he the Lord's missionary.

 

I love you all so much! Have a wonderful week!

 

Love Sister Ackley