This week was really hot! We are starting to get into the hot season and I have never sweat so much in my life but I love it. We moved houses this week which was super exciting our new house is really nice and it has an oven so we are way excited about that. It is just Sister Dy and I in the house but we have a good time. We got invited to eat dinner at a members house this week. They are from the international branch and they made us fetticini alfredo! SO GOOD. I haven't had cheese in a long time so delicious.
The work this week is moving along. We had Kim pray about a baptismal date this week and we are meeting with her today! So hopefully she will be getting baptized in the next few weeks. We got a really promising new investigator Sina who we are also excited about. Cool story- There is a member in our ward Thida. She has been a member for a little over a year now and is preparing to go on a mission and currently waiting for her call. She has been working on her family to come to church for a long time and her mom finally committed to start learning!!!!! We are so excited to start teaching her, this is such a huge blessing for Thida and she really hopes that her mom can get baptized before she leaves on her mission.
This week I was thinking a lot about this quote "Inviting the Lord to help us find ways to serve will allow the Spirit to open our eyes to see the needs around us, to see the one who needs us that day and to know how to minister to him or her." I want the Lord to always be able to count on me to lift those around me and find ways to serve them. As I was thinking about how I could better serve my companion and my investigators I thought a lot about the gift of discernment. This is something that I am constantly praying for because "Discernment is a light of protection in a world that grows increasingly dark... The gift of discernment opens to us vistas that stretch far beyond what can be seen with natural eyes or hear with natural ears. Discerning is seeing with spiritual eyes and feeling with the heart - seeing and feeling the falsehood of an idea or the goodness in another person. Discernment is hearing with spiritual ears and feeling with the heart - hearing and feeling the unspoken concern in a statement of the truthfulness of a testimony or doctrine." (Elder David A. Bednar)
I know that as we are quick to observe - promptly responding to spiritual impressions and the prophets counsel that we will be blessed with the gift of discernment that can help guide us through the world that we live in today. And help us to lift, inspire, edify and bless those that surround us.
Love you!!!
Sister Stratford
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