I feel that each week of being on a mission, I just have more and more opportunities to not only see Heavenly Father's hand in other's lives, but also I'm able to be more humbled in the fact that we are truly just "instruments in His hands" :)
Daniel was able to make his first covenant with the Lord, and was baptized this week and yesterday was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and received the gift of the Holy Ghost! Daniel also had the opportunity to bear his testimony during the baptismal services, and one thing he mentioned was that he never guessed that he would be there today 5 years ago, or even a few months ago. He knows that the Church has been restored, and he gained a testimony of the Book of Mormon after not being to stop thinking about the book, and started reading it through the night. Sister Deuel was also able to come to the baptism, since she was the one who started teaching him with me :) One amazing moment to me was when after the baptism, when we went to congratulate Daniel, was when we thanked me for not giving up on him, and how that even when he would hide when we went to teach his wife, he could feel the Spirit when we would come.
We also started teaching this girl named Thessaly, who's just so sweet and a super bright 10 year-old, who's parents moved here recently but aren't sure the process of having her baptized. The mom wants to come back, and so it's been really just amazing being able to start teaching the family! Thessaly loves to read, and not only read the chapter we gave her to read for when we would come back to her next appointment, but also read a bunch more of the Book of Mormon, and just is totally embracing the gospel. It really helps me to see that children are just so receptive to the spirit! We typically go to church with our investigators, and one neat thing was that when Kent went to the family ward for the first time yesterday, our Bishop was so excited to be able to meet him, that he quickly made it to introduce himself! The Stake presidency also happened to be in the ward that day, and so he got to meet a lot of different people!
"The trial of our faith will always involve staying true to simple, daily practices of faith"
Helaman 3:35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God.
This scripture sort of just became one of my favorites over the past week, and I just know that part of our progression in this life involves us yielding our hearts to Heavenly Father! Our life may not be in any way what we imagined it to be, but I know that when we turn our will over to God, things work out!
With love,
-Sister Cottrell
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