I will be honest, I am a little scared about how fast the time is flying! The heat here is crazy, and I am obsessed with all the lizards running around, my last two companions have both said to me 'are you sure you don't want to be a scientist?'
Everyone keeps asking us how old we are...sweet young sister porter tells her age..19, and they all say wow so young, and then I said mine..22...and they say ohhh esta bien. no importa.....(thats okay, not important). its awkward.
Last week we went to visit a recent convert, while we were waiting for him his grandpa turns on the tv for us...awkward we try to not really watch it...but then the commercials end and its SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE..... it was even in English!!!! I was upset. Good thing 2 seconds later the member came out and turned off the the TV.
This week we decided it was time to drop talk one of our investigators, we asked inspired questions to really get down to the root of his concerns, we could see him softening up a bit and so then I decided to drop the bomb. I said "Samuel we have done all we can do to help you, this is a decision you have to make on your own, but we cant come visit you anymore."
He thought about it a bit and said "Okay I will get baptized on Sunday!" We felt he needed to go to church one more time so he is getting baptized this coming Sunday, and he isn't letting anything get in the way of his baptism! It is awesome!
Please pray that Reynaldo will see that he is ready for baptism! We don't understand why he is so content to get baptized on the 31st! He should have been baptized 2 weeks ago!
Lately I have been thinking a lot about change, the concept of change and how the Lord can literally change us, how He is making us into who we wants us to be. About a week ago I had a dream I was home and I was sitting across from one of my best friends (shout out to Nikki Rudd)
and I was looking at myself and there was this deep awful feeling in my gut, as I thought I have been gone for 18 months and I didn't change at all, "send me back I want to try again." I know and hope that this isn't the case because I can feel the change take place deep within my heart. But it caused me to work that much harder, to be that much more obedient, and to put that much more of my mind and heart into the work.
But what it really got me thinking about is that day when we will all stand face to face with our Savior, and with our Father in Heaven. These are the people who we made promises to, the people we made covenants with. Our Savior was our tutor, and our Father in Heaven knew that He would have to watch His children face trials and hardships, but it was all so that we could come back changed. When we are there do we want to look at ourselves and say 'I didn't change, let me go back, let me try again!"
Sister Anderson (who I miss so much) told us missionaries once "God is making you into something eternal, this isn't just for your mission, do NOT go back to being fishers."(referencing the disciples change from fishers to fishers of men.) How can we apply this into all of our experiences with the Lord. We feel Him so that we can be changed, we face trials so that we can be changed, we have joy so that we can be changed, because this is for eternity!. Do not go back to being fishers!
"If we, like clay are malleable in the hands of the Lord we will find happiness."
PS. speaking of change- I love this new Mormon message:
Hope on, Journey on.
With Love,
Sister Miranda Koutz
Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission
7951 SW 6th st #110
Fort Lauderdale FL 33324
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