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4.18.16

Hey there!

Hope You all had a lovely week! I sure did. This past week we got to watch a sweet baptism of a lady whom was being taught by some other sisters in our ward but she had asked us to sing at her baptism so My companion and I sang "Abide with me 'tis even tide" and it was a super cool experience with a very strong spirit at that service! :) Then the next day she got confirmed on a missionary Sunday where I and one of the Elders in the ward spoke and the 3 sets of missionaries in the ward sang, although a typical missionary song it was very sweet and brought the spirit into the sacrament meeting very strong, "Ill go where you want me to go." I was asked to speak on how I prepared to serve a mission and pointers I would give to those who are preparing. I did that but to start my talk I talked about how important it is to always be prepared and how you could relate that to the second coming. It was a really cool talk to prepare for and I learned a lot of things and realized a lot of different things that I have been able to learn on my mission. Not only spiritual things but how to deal with people, how to take care of a house(Kind of) but at least to live on my own. I guess the bill paying part will come when I go to college but nonetheless a mission really is for everyone and you can learn so many different things from it!

One experience I learned from this week and hope you all can too, happened while we were at an investigators house with a member of the church. She had a friend over and her friend was bandaging her up because our investigator had just had surgery but after we had been there for a few minutes she asked us what Mormons believe. She said that she had a handful of family that was members and friends too but no one had ever shared what we believed. Friends and family, Never be afraid to share what you believe, who Jesus Christ is and how he has helped you. If you are not sure how to go about it, pray and He will guide you as to what to say! Anyways we share the restoration with her and her friend that was investigating again and she loved it and cannot wait to learn more. She asked where she could get a Book of Mormon and we gave one to her and she said she would try to have the whole thing read in a week... and the pamphlets we gave her and look into doing things on family search.org She couldn't wait to read the Book of Mormon. There are people that are looking, and I know it!

We have a long transfer this transfer and it is 7 weeks and so transfers are next week, I cannot believe how fast it has really gone. And then the next one will be a normal transfer, 6 weeks and then my last transfer (I really cannot believe how fast that has gone) but will be 5 week to get it all back to normal. They had to do that because they just extended the MTC stay for English speaking back to 3 weeks, probably a good thing, maybe hard but good:)

Tonight we get to go and teach a family that are not members a family home evening and we are teaching it on the gospel of Jesus Christ and I am really excited to teach it. The mom is working on not smoking and the 7 year old daughter cannot wait to turn eight so she can be baptized:) Seriously the cutest thing ever! Moments like that are what I live for now:)

I hope you all have a good week and never be afraid of what you believe, share it with others so they can feel of that goodness! Love you all!

Love Sister Mauck