Thank you for the birthday wishes! They all made me so
happy! Saturday will be odd, but I will still feel your guys love!
This week was crazy we have set the goal to work harder on
helping our investigators come to church because they just aren't! So, we work
SUPER hard and we made plans for their trains: how they could afford the
trains, we arranged members to pick people us, and we were going to walk with a
couple. In total, we had complete "fool proof" plans for 8
investigators to come to church! We were so pumped! Annnnnnd one by one each
plan fell through and only one person made it to church. But we are still so
happy about the one! It was Fred. He is progressing so much. In fact, he is so solid,
and we have taught him basically everything (We are just waiting on permission
from Utah for his baptism) so we started using him as a Joint Teach for our
other investigator Steven! He bore the sweetest testimony on fasting. We taught
him about fasting a couple weeks earlier and he tried it for himself on
fast Sunday. He told us that he prayed throughout the entire 24 hours and
he felt the spirit. Then before he closed his fast, he opened up to God about
all of his inner struggles as he has to wait an undetermined amount of time for
his baptism and he was just overwhelmed with the deepest peaceful feeling. He
said that all of his concerns were put to rest and they were replaced with the
sweetest joy. After the lesson he thanked me for being here to teach him and it
made my heart soar.
Being on a mission has definitely helped me to grow a deeper
testimony, but even more than that, my eyes have been opened to how a testimony
of the restoration and the Gospel of Jesus Christ can bless other people's
lives. I see random people and I can tangibly feel the potential for stronger
family relationships, peace in this life, and happiness for eternity.
We got permission from President Brown to go to Salzburg,
Austria for P-day today! It was SOOOO worth it! We did a 3.5 hour "Sound
of Music" bike tour and it was HEAVEN! I just soaked in all of the
mountains and the beauty as our tour guide played the entire soundtrack and
showed us all of the famous movie scenes. Later we went into some Catacombs and
walked over The Lock Bridge (which has always been on my Bucket List). It was a
fantastic birthday celebration
Love you guys! I will send more pics next week!
- Sister Reay
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