Dear Mother,
Mom, I love your letters. I don't even need to be at home to know what is going on. They are very informative. I feel like i am not missing a thing. Thank you, it helps me to jsut focus on my mission and that's proabably why I haven't been homesick. sister kocaj is doing very well. We had another sister missionary named sister goddard come into our companionship. she is about to go home. her compaion got her appendix taken out and was put with a senior companoin. so sister goddard was put here. it is really great being in a threesome. it is so powerful. and it is good for sister kocaj to see two examples of missionaries and to get the support you need when you frist come into the field.
We are no longer teaching jackie. her boyfriend has dropped us for her. it is sad to see such amazing people and then through various circumstances see them turn away. but who knows what will happen in the future. It has given us the opportunity to really do some finding which i love more than anything. if ever i feel down at all all i have to do is to go out and testify to as many people as possible and i just beam. it is good for sister kocaj becuase new missionaries are always hesitant at first and this is giving her the opportunity to find and gain some concfidence.
Well, i am so excited for conference. i just can't stop thinking about it. I just know that something amazing will happen or be said. It always is. And it is good to be on a mission during this time of year. i lvoe being a missionary. welll, i lvoe you too.
love, your daughter
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
March 22, 2009
Dear Mom,
I love you mom. I am glad to hear about your calling and the family. This week has been a good week. We have 3 people dated for baptism. The first we met last sunday. His name is Ryan. And he is from zimbabwe. he is the most humble man I have ever met. He called us the next day to make sure we were coming. We did and the spirit was so strong we committed him to be baptized. the next lesson it was overpowing and all i said was how do you feel after watching the restoration dvd. he said he felt the spirit and i dated him for baptizm two weeks away. he is so amzing. we have seen him pretty much every day this past week and he keeps saying he is finding hidden treasures.
The other girl is named jackie. she is 19. we had taught her the first lesson and the next lesson she told us she had given up everything againsst the word of wisdom. we hadn't even taught her yet. then we pulled out some plan of salvation pictures and she taught us it. she just knew it. the spirit was so powerful that all i did was bear testimony of the reality of the restored gospel and she accepted an invittaion to be baptized on the 11th of april.
Today we went to clithero and downham and chatburn. it is where the early missionaries went and baptized hundreds. also, prophets and apostles before the restoration. The spirit was so strong i felt like I was in heaven. We are having an amazing week. I fasted long and hard for miracels to happen and they are. Mom, love you and I will talk to you next week.
love, your daughter
I love you mom. I am glad to hear about your calling and the family. This week has been a good week. We have 3 people dated for baptism. The first we met last sunday. His name is Ryan. And he is from zimbabwe. he is the most humble man I have ever met. He called us the next day to make sure we were coming. We did and the spirit was so strong we committed him to be baptized. the next lesson it was overpowing and all i said was how do you feel after watching the restoration dvd. he said he felt the spirit and i dated him for baptizm two weeks away. he is so amzing. we have seen him pretty much every day this past week and he keeps saying he is finding hidden treasures.
The other girl is named jackie. she is 19. we had taught her the first lesson and the next lesson she told us she had given up everything againsst the word of wisdom. we hadn't even taught her yet. then we pulled out some plan of salvation pictures and she taught us it. she just knew it. the spirit was so powerful that all i did was bear testimony of the reality of the restored gospel and she accepted an invittaion to be baptized on the 11th of april.
Today we went to clithero and downham and chatburn. it is where the early missionaries went and baptized hundreds. also, prophets and apostles before the restoration. The spirit was so strong i felt like I was in heaven. We are having an amazing week. I fasted long and hard for miracels to happen and they are. Mom, love you and I will talk to you next week.
love, your daughter
Monday, March 9, 2009
3.9.09
Letter From Rachel to her Mother Wednesday the 9th of March 2009
Dear Mother,
I just got your email. I am actually emailing right now. That was a cool email. I wish I could have been there. My mind is just now going crazy with a million thoughts. I have had some pretty unusaul things happen to me on my mission and I have the Lord has been very merciful to me with the amount of growth and knowledge that I have obtained through study, talking with prominent members of the church and personal revelation. And something that you said in your email jsut hit me so forcefully I almost started crying. But I will see waht happens. Mom I don't have long today. My computer is rubbish and I never have the time to write anybody. But I just want to share wtih you my testimony of this gospel. Mom, I know that god lives. He is my god and my father. I know more importantly that he loves and he trusts me and that is why he has sent me to england. to assist in carrying forth his work and gathering his elect. I have had much success here and it is not me. The Lord has been so merciful to me and has used me as an instrument in his hands to assist in thuis great gathering. I absolutley know that joseph smith saw what he said he did in that sacred grove in 1820. God and jesus christ did appear to him and restore what is the greatest message and work that this world has ever seen. I have the opportunity to bear my testimony each day, but I hold it to me closley it is the most precious thing I have. I will never forsake or abandon my lord. He has done so much for me and their is nothing that i woudl not suffer or go through in retrurn and for the blessing of being in his presence for eternity. That is the only thing i want, I want to go home. Mom, I would encourage you to do everything in your power to bring your family to the gospel. david and others. this is no small thing. If we do not do this we will not be wtih those people. they will not have eternal life. this life is so short. do not fear the advesary or being mocked or having someone be offended. they will bless your name for eternity as they in turn recieve the blessings of eternal life. mom I lvoe you and I admire and respect the woman that you are. you have always had strong faith. tell the family that i lvoe them and encourage them to do the same. i love you , love your daughter
Dear Mother,
I just got your email. I am actually emailing right now. That was a cool email. I wish I could have been there. My mind is just now going crazy with a million thoughts. I have had some pretty unusaul things happen to me on my mission and I have the Lord has been very merciful to me with the amount of growth and knowledge that I have obtained through study, talking with prominent members of the church and personal revelation. And something that you said in your email jsut hit me so forcefully I almost started crying. But I will see waht happens. Mom I don't have long today. My computer is rubbish and I never have the time to write anybody. But I just want to share wtih you my testimony of this gospel. Mom, I know that god lives. He is my god and my father. I know more importantly that he loves and he trusts me and that is why he has sent me to england. to assist in carrying forth his work and gathering his elect. I have had much success here and it is not me. The Lord has been so merciful to me and has used me as an instrument in his hands to assist in thuis great gathering. I absolutley know that joseph smith saw what he said he did in that sacred grove in 1820. God and jesus christ did appear to him and restore what is the greatest message and work that this world has ever seen. I have the opportunity to bear my testimony each day, but I hold it to me closley it is the most precious thing I have. I will never forsake or abandon my lord. He has done so much for me and their is nothing that i woudl not suffer or go through in retrurn and for the blessing of being in his presence for eternity. That is the only thing i want, I want to go home. Mom, I would encourage you to do everything in your power to bring your family to the gospel. david and others. this is no small thing. If we do not do this we will not be wtih those people. they will not have eternal life. this life is so short. do not fear the advesary or being mocked or having someone be offended. they will bless your name for eternity as they in turn recieve the blessings of eternal life. mom I lvoe you and I admire and respect the woman that you are. you have always had strong faith. tell the family that i lvoe them and encourage them to do the same. i love you , love your daughter
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