Dear Family and Friends,
This week was rather a tough one again, but a great learning experience. We have really struggled to find new investigators this week. Yesterday Sister Slade and I fasted that we might be able to find a new investigator who is prepared and ready for the Gospel. Our Zone Leaders, Elders Rencher and Combe invited us to fast for a specific investigator (age, gender, status in life) and we felt impressed to fast for a single woman around the ages of 40-50. We are confident that our paths will cross this week and that we will recognize her when she is put in our way.
Unfortunately, all or our baptisms fell through. We are hopeful though, that we can set new baptismal goals with our investigators once their concerns are addressed. Thankfully, our investigators are not looking to disprove the Gospel, but have a more full understanding. I am grateful for the opportunity that I have had to study the doctrine of become like God this week in response to one of our investigators questions. It has only strengthened my testimony that our Heavenly Father loves us. He wants us to have ALL the blessings that He has, and that means the opportunity to become like Him and doing all the things that He does. Becoming like Him doesn't change the fact that he is our Creator and Father and that He is our God. If anything, it makes Him more glorious and wonderful and emphasizes His mercy and love. He is willing to allow us, mere mortals for the time being, to become as wonderful as He is!
We had the opportunity to teach two lessons to an 18 year old girl, Kelsey, that is visiting some family friends from Arizona. She attended our Gospel Principles lesson last Sunday that was on baptism and she called us on Tuesday wanting to take the lessons. We invited her to be baptized and she accepted! Unfortunately, we will not be able to keep her, but we are excited for the missionaries in Arizona that will get to continue teaching her. She offered the prayer after our second lesson and it was so pure and heartfelt and she truly recognizes the blessings of the Gospel and is excited to learn more. She has been blessed to visit the Jensens, a remarkable family here in Oak Harbor, and feel the Spirit in their home. It was not an accident that she was able to come to Washington and start taking the lessons with the Jensen family. It has been a great building block for her testimony.
So, since I don't have too much more to tell you, I thought I would tell you my two favorite "Who Is It?" door step experiences for the week:
1) We knocked on a door tracting and the man at home said "Who is it?" Sister Slade responded, "It's the Sister Missionaries!" He then said, "We're not home!" We just laughed we walked away. Maybe next time we will try, "It's your best friends!" or be bold and tell them straight-up "We are servants of the Lord!"
2) We had an appointment with a less active family in our ward, and when we knocked on the door, the mom yelled "Who is it?" We responded, "The missionaries!" Inside, we hear, "Esteban! Put some pants on! The missionaries are here!"
I hope that this finds you well, and as always, I love you!
Sister Turley
PS--Some things I forgot last time: The Hancocks met my comp, Sister Slade at Conference in April in the Tabernacle. Small world! And her cousin, Micah, was in my freshman ward at BYU. Also in my freshman ward was the brother of Sister Loose, who just came in. And a girl from Cami's freshman ward, Sister Tuttle, is here serving in the WEM as well. Who knew?!
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