Hey everyone! This week has been great!
This week I have had several conversations about prayers. Why is it that we can't always get a "yes" or a "no" answer right away? The "just wait" answers are no fun! In a way I like to compare this to a
cake. When we are receiving a "just wait" answer it's because the ingredients aren't quite in line yet! God has the ingredients all gathered, but He needs to put the ingredients in the batter at the proper time in order for the cookies to turnout right! Sometimes when we are waiting for the answers to prayers, God is still in the mixing processing. He has to wait until just the right time for the batter to be mixed to perfection, because of course His cake would be done perfectly. The hardest period of time is the "bake" period. God has to wait until the cake is not too early and not over done, otherwise it wouldn't be up to par. So when you're not receiving an answer to your prayer, God just hasn't finished baking your perfect cake! So in reality, when our answer is "just wait", we need to realize that he is actually saying, "hey it's ok. I've got it covered. Your cake is being baked. If I give it to you now all you'll have is a ton of ingredients with no recipe. Just let me handle it!"
Funny story for the week: sister Richardson and I were out tracting. As we were going along I saw a white rope on the ground,so I slyly looked at sister Richardson ad said, "hey look! It's a snake!" Sister
Richardson looks at it and she says, "whooaa!,cool! Although I think it's only the skin!!". She walks a little closer. "Hey.... That's just a rope! Aww Sister quinton!! Rude!!" Hmmm well I thought it was
funny:)
Another funny story: in this same neighborhood as the alleged "snake" we were about to head to our appointment, when we see a young guy walking down the street. We decided that we should probably talk to him. We started walking across th street, he sees us and starts quickly heading our way. As he's walking up to me, he says, "hey can I have a hug?" As he's saying this, he had his arms outstretched and was swooping in to hug me and I was panicking!! I threw my arms up and stammered, "umm. Uhh. WAIT!! Uhh" right before he was about hug me up he stops. Then with a smile says, "I'm totally kidding, I'm Mormon, I just wanted to see how you'd react!!" Phew. I was relieved!
This week we went to see a certain member of our ward twice. In our first visit, we came a little early and knocked some houses in a neighboring street, the. Headed over to our appointment. Second visit,
we went straight to her house and the first thing she told us is that two days ago they had found a Book of Mormon that someone had been burning. ...we had been there two days ago...we were so shocked that someone had gone out of their way to burn the book we had given them!!
This same ward member that we visited had some really intense mission stories. She has served her mission in Russia and as she was telling us some of the things that had happened to her my jaw just dropped! She'd been chased by drunk men, put in jail and was almost kidnapped. When I say almost, I mean that they literally had her and her companion in the kidnappers car and they had been driving for several hours into the woods. She was making her peace with God and she thought that that was going to die. How scary is that!
We had a couple of really cool spiritual experiences this week as well. We are teaching a man named Gus. His wife is a less active member. In our lesson I felt like I needed to give him a specific date
for him to be baptized. When I told him that date that he should be baptized on he paused. Then said, "you know...I feel like The Lord has been preparing me for 22 years for this. I feel an urgency in my body, like I need this and that we don't have much time." So cool!! In the closing prayer, I asked him if he would pray specifically to know if the date I had given him was right for him. So he starts his prayer, and right towards the end of it he said, "and Heavenly Father, the sisters think I should be baptized on the 21st...so is that the day for me?" As he said this I got warms chills down my spine. At the closing of his prayer, he had this really excited look on his face!
Another cool story is we have a great member of the ward named, janell. She is a member, but her husband is not. She's been teaching him the missionary discussions and reading scriptures with him every night for the past couple of months. He's had some things holding him back from meeting with us, but yesterday janell called us up and she was so excited! she told us that her husband had decided that now was the time to meet with us!!
This week I have had several conversations about prayers. Why is it that we can't always get a "yes" or a "no" answer right away? The "just wait" answers are no fun! In a way I like to compare this to a
cake. When we are receiving a "just wait" answer it's because the ingredients aren't quite in line yet! God has the ingredients all gathered, but He needs to put the ingredients in the batter at the proper time in order for the cookies to turnout right! Sometimes when we are waiting for the answers to prayers, God is still in the mixing processing. He has to wait until just the right time for the batter to be mixed to perfection, because of course His cake would be done perfectly. The hardest period of time is the "bake" period. God has to wait until the cake is not too early and not over done, otherwise it wouldn't be up to par. So when you're not receiving an answer to your prayer, God just hasn't finished baking your perfect cake! So in reality, when our answer is "just wait", we need to realize that he is actually saying, "hey it's ok. I've got it covered. Your cake is being baked. If I give it to you now all you'll have is a ton of ingredients with no recipe. Just let me handle it!"
Funny story for the week: sister Richardson and I were out tracting. As we were going along I saw a white rope on the ground,so I slyly looked at sister Richardson ad said, "hey look! It's a snake!" Sister
Richardson looks at it and she says, "whooaa!,cool! Although I think it's only the skin!!". She walks a little closer. "Hey.... That's just a rope! Aww Sister quinton!! Rude!!" Hmmm well I thought it was
funny:)
Another funny story: in this same neighborhood as the alleged "snake" we were about to head to our appointment, when we see a young guy walking down the street. We decided that we should probably talk to him. We started walking across th street, he sees us and starts quickly heading our way. As he's walking up to me, he says, "hey can I have a hug?" As he's saying this, he had his arms outstretched and was swooping in to hug me and I was panicking!! I threw my arms up and stammered, "umm. Uhh. WAIT!! Uhh" right before he was about hug me up he stops. Then with a smile says, "I'm totally kidding, I'm Mormon, I just wanted to see how you'd react!!" Phew. I was relieved!
This week we went to see a certain member of our ward twice. In our first visit, we came a little early and knocked some houses in a neighboring street, the. Headed over to our appointment. Second visit,
we went straight to her house and the first thing she told us is that two days ago they had found a Book of Mormon that someone had been burning. ...we had been there two days ago...we were so shocked that someone had gone out of their way to burn the book we had given them!!
This same ward member that we visited had some really intense mission stories. She has served her mission in Russia and as she was telling us some of the things that had happened to her my jaw just dropped! She'd been chased by drunk men, put in jail and was almost kidnapped. When I say almost, I mean that they literally had her and her companion in the kidnappers car and they had been driving for several hours into the woods. She was making her peace with God and she thought that that was going to die. How scary is that!
We had a couple of really cool spiritual experiences this week as well. We are teaching a man named Gus. His wife is a less active member. In our lesson I felt like I needed to give him a specific date
for him to be baptized. When I told him that date that he should be baptized on he paused. Then said, "you know...I feel like The Lord has been preparing me for 22 years for this. I feel an urgency in my body, like I need this and that we don't have much time." So cool!! In the closing prayer, I asked him if he would pray specifically to know if the date I had given him was right for him. So he starts his prayer, and right towards the end of it he said, "and Heavenly Father, the sisters think I should be baptized on the 21st...so is that the day for me?" As he said this I got warms chills down my spine. At the closing of his prayer, he had this really excited look on his face!
Another cool story is we have a great member of the ward named, janell. She is a member, but her husband is not. She's been teaching him the missionary discussions and reading scriptures with him every night for the past couple of months. He's had some things holding him back from meeting with us, but yesterday janell called us up and she was so excited! she told us that her husband had decided that now was the time to meet with us!!
This week has been so great!! Love you all! :)
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