I Love the Gospel

2.22.16

Hey there!

Hope you all are doing well! We had a pretty good week here. So first I wanted to tell you about this really cool friend we started teaching this past week. A few weeks ago we knock on this door and he said that Fridays were usually better for him so we came back later that week and he was not home and we were kind of sad but we just went along with our day. This past Friday we had a lot of our lessons and plans fall through so we decided we would go and try him again, he was home but no one else was so we asked if we could come back the next day and bring a friend with us. And we did exactly that. We brought a member with us and invited him to church and he said he would come. Then Sunday comes and we are waiting by the door and you probably see lots of missionaries doing and then we had to go and talk to some people which we did. And then went back to the door to see the member who came with us waiting at the door with us. She said, "My husband said 9 out of 10 times they do not actually come." We probably had pretty sad looking faces after she said that and then less than a minute later just a minute or 2 before the appointed hour to start he came!! It was a perfect sacrament for him to come too, all about faith and then the last hour was about searching for answers through our Heavenly Father. We now have another lesson with him tonight too. He is so excited to learn more and these are the times in missionary work that we live for, when people are excited to learn about Jesus Christ! And about how they can strengthen their faith in him and become better.

Hope you all are doing wonderful! We had a Zone conference this past week and it was pretty great. We learned lots of different ways as a mission we can do better in our finding efforts especially finding families that we can teach to prepare to be sealed for time and all eternity.

Also wanted to give a shout out to Sister Dew! Just a few more weeks til she enters the MTC!:) Pretty exciting! It is kind of weird to think about the MTC that feels like it was just yesterday but it also feels like it was forever ago. Time is such a weird thing when you are on a mission.

I love this gospel and the blessings that are associated with it! I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that because of Him and His Atonement we can be forgiven, we can be made Whole, we can get through anything that our Heavenly Father puts before us and we can get back home! I know that the gospel is a gift and we cannot take it for granted! As we experience blessings it brings we cannot help but have a desire to share it! Keep up the great work! I love you all!

Love Sister Mauck