This has been another great week in Sandpoint. Our mini-missionary, Bro. Wood, left yesterday, but the news came Saturday night that we are getting another mini-missionary from the Spokane West stake. He will be with us for this whole week. I think that is a great program to help the priests know what missionary work is like and get them excited for when they have the opportunity to go themselves.
Once again, this was a good week. Tom and Heidi are progressing still and will get baptized when they are able to. Christina has been doing so much better this week. She went to a ward activity this last week and socialized with the ward members. That really helped and she is more optimistic about the gospel again. She was talking to Heidi and Heidi was bearing her testimony on how excited she was to be getting baptized and how great of a thing it will be when Christina gets baptized too.
We found a part member family that has some interest in meeting with us in the future. The Jones family is a family we have tried contacting on and off when we are in the area since I got here. We finally made contact with the husband, who is a member this last week. We had a great doorstep lesson with him and his wife. As we testified of the Book of Mormon, he told us he felt a desire to pick it up and read it again, so we pray he will do that. They are out of town this week, but they told us we could come back next week.
We took another part member family on a church tour this week which was awesome. Stan was baptized in November and his daughter is visiting from Ireland for 2 months. She was pretty interested in checking out the church. I was on exchanges during the tour, but heard that the spirit was super strong there. She came to church with him this week which she really enjoyed.
We were able to have President Boren, who is a counselor in the mission presidency to come to our zone meeting that we had this last week. He had a quote that really stuck out to me from President Benson I believe. It went something like, "When you put God first in your life, all other things in your life will either drop out, or be put into its proper place." I think about how true that is. It might not make sense on paper, but when God is #1 in our lives, everything works out. The happiest and most progressing investigators I have ever taught, have understood and lived that principle, and I have had to exercise that faith as a missionary as well. I may have said this before, but there are many things I have been asked to do in these last two years that have been very difficult, but when I put my trust in God and just do it, things just work out.
I love you all and hope you have a great week. Talk to you next week=)
Elder Stacey
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