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Well just to start off I just have to tell you that the highlight of my day was HUANG JM AND XIE DX WERE BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!! And it was incredible!!!!!!!!!! It went soooo smooth and it was just wonderful!!!! I can't explain how much I love them!!! The Elder's helped baptize them. Huang JM was soooo sweet in her testimony. She just talked about how grateful she was for us. And how much we helped her. She told me one thing that really stood out to me, she said "No matter where you go, whoever you teach, and whether or not they get baptized, they are grateful for you. And if they get baptized they are even more grateful" It was really sweet. She's incredible... OH but did I ever tell you that they were a referral from BanQiao sisters? And do you know who are the Banqiao sisters? SIster DeWitt (my trainee)!! Sister DeWitt found her!!! :D So so awesome. I love her!
Oh we also had zone conference! So that was pretty cool. Elder and Sister Funk were there and it was super cool. Elder Funk talked a lot about what he talked about in MLC. But President and Sister Jergensen also had incredible lessons and I'm just so amazed by their ability to teach from the scriptures. I also had the opportunity to do a special musical number at zone conference. I sang with Sister Austad, and Elder Walters (who is like a legendary pianist), Sister Clawson (on violin), and Elder Thompson (on cello). We sang Beautiful Savior! Soooo incredible. I'm so grateful to have had the chance to sing on my mission!
This week was just full of great lessons and cool little miracles. We've really been trying to find new people but using all kinds of methods to find. We street contact, we also have been visiting LA and part member families, and we are also asking referrals from everyone we can! We now have two 9 year old investigator boys who are gonna get baptized:) Both in different families! So awesome!
OH MY GOODNESS I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL YOU ALL, SATURDAY I HAD 4 INVESTIGATORS BAPTIZED!!!!! So I don't know if I said much about Li JM but she was a member's friend in the zhong he second ward. We passed her off to the SongShan sisters because Li Jm moved to Neihu. Well she got baptized on Saturday morning!!! And we got to go!!! Then I get there and Sister Reinhard and Sister Kim were like "Hey did anyone tell you that Chen Yeye is getting baptized today at 3"? And of course I freaked out! Chen Yeye was the grandpa who is like 80 but that understood pretty well. And he really really wanted to get baptized but couldn't because of his living situation. Well I don't know what happened but I think because of health issues and stuff he was cleared to be baptized! Don't know how that worked out but he was baptized!!!!!!!! AHHHHHH and then Huang JM and Leo were baptized Saturday night!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness how incredible right???? Miracles!!
That was basically our week. We just teach a lot. We've dropped a couple investigators. But yea.
Our most progressing investigators right now are Wang JM. I found her on the street with my old companion, Sister Wang's little sister on exchanges. She's sooo awesome. She really wants to get baptized and is just golden. I love her :)
The other one is Qiu JM. Or Ruby. She selt contacted herself. She walked in the church last last week. She went to the Jinhua ward (the biggest chapel, by the temple). And she came because of a friend from Canada who had introduced the church to her. Well she said that she has been so happy since she's come to church, and without us telling her, she told her boss that she wasn't going to work on Sunday. And just like that, she isn't working on Sunday. She's been reading the BOM, and has a baptismal date, and everything!!! Incredible.
I have loved my time in 永和 so much. I love this place. I love the ward. I love my companion, the apartment. The location (it's only 20 min away from the mission office), it really just couldn't get any better. I am so grateful for this time that we have had success and have baptized. Sister Yee and I had 4 baptisms together! 5 counting Li JM (we taught her together before she moved to Neihu). And I just can't express how grateful I am. And now coming down to my last 6 weeks as a missionary, I'm excited to go somewhere else. I don't know where I'm going yet. I'm a little bummed to be in another place for only a transfer because 6 weeks isn't a long time to get to know the area, but I just hope and pray that we can baptize someone, or a family:) But whatever happens, I just am going to try my best. I want to live every last minute and every last second of being a missionary. I think my absolute favorite part of being a missionary is just having the confidence that I am doing exactly what God wants me to be doing. I am serving Him, and I am doing exactly what the Savior would be doing if He were here. He would be finding, and He would be teaching repentance, and baptizing converts :)
I just want to finish by sharing a scripture that I studied this week. I was looking for scriptures about the Atonement for a lesson. It's in 3 Nephi 27:14-15.
"14 And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil—
15 And for this cause have I been lifted up; therefore, according to the power of the Father I will draw all men unto me, that they may be judged according to their works."
Christ was lifted up upon the cross. He suffered that pain, so that we wouldn't have to. So that we would be lifted up from our burdens, and our grief, and our sorrow. We was lifted up so that He might draw all men unto Him, so that we could be lifted up to the Father. That is the joy of the Atonement. We come unto Jesus, to become free from out sorrows and pains and sins, and so that we can be clean and stand before the Father to be judged and rewarded. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I don't think I understand completely how great He is, or how amazing He is, but I know that what He did was real. I feel it, and I've seen it change and bless others lives. I know that this gospel is real. This is God's plan for us, and each of us have a unique and divine identity. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
I'll have a new companion and new area next week....wish me luck. Haha just kidding :)
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Love,
Sister Roberts
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