Miracles are all around us :)
Date: March12, 2012
Area: Flushing, Queens
Companion - Sister Lambert
Welp another week! How was your week?! First off I just want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARRETT!!!! You are going to be 15?!?!? How do you feel? Man I sure do feel old!! You need to stop growing up! Well Garrett I wish you the happiest birthday ever! I love you!!
So We had a Preach My gospel Bowl with the entire mission! And the winning district got to take the ENTIRE ZONE to the temple!! Oh man Hermana Lambert and I were SO excited!!!!! So we have been studying like CRAZY! Well....GUESS what!?! WE WON!! Our zone won and so we will be taking a trip to the temple tomorrow as a zone I CANT WAIT!! Also I get to go for my half way mark this Wednesday! I am excited to go to the temple but not so much about my half way....time sure goes by WAY too fast!! So temple twice this week! I am HAPPY!! :)
Hermana Lambert and I have been praying to recieve a good solid referral and the other day our prayers were answered. Hermana Lambert and I were coming home from an appointment when we recieved a medial refferal from Church Headquarters, so we were really excited! So we immediately contacted it. We called and it was a father who had two daughters who really wanted a Book of Mormon. We were SO excited! So the next day we were going to go over there, however they called us to reschedule for Saturday. So then went on Saturday at 4 Oclock. When we got to their apartment we were welcomed inside. We then waited as he went to get his two daughters, Juliana and Alexandra, ages 11 & 13 The father Alex then proceeded to tell us that he as a member. My companion and I were shocked, for we had never seen him or heard of his family. He then told us that they have not been active in the church for quite some time now. We then asked the girls what made them want a Book of Mormon. They then told us that they were talking to their dad and he began talking about the Book of Mormon and then the girls just had that desire and wanted to know how they could become closer to their Heavenly Father. They told us that when their dad was talking about the Book of Mormon that the older girl Alexandra immediately got on the computer and went to Mormon.org and ordered her own personal copy of the Book of Mormon. She was so excited! She told her friend Vanessa how excited she was to get her new book!
The three girls (the Ayalya girls and her friend) sat on the couch as we began teaching them. You should have seen their faces when we handed each one of them their very own copy of the Book of Mormon. Little Juliana was crying she was so happy to be hearing from us and learning about the Book of Mormon. We were able to teach them the restoration....it was one of the most powerful lessons I have ever been in. The spirit was so strong, everyone felt it! We invited these girls to be baptized and they accepted! They are SO excited! The father was more than happy to have us over. In all of my mission I have never met girls such like angels. They are so intune with the spirit and they just want nothing more than to follow the example of our Savior Jesus Christ and to do what is right. The dad said that they could come to church on Sunday!
So Sunday we went to go and pick the girls up for church! They stayed all three hours, we were able to go to young womens with them and they loved it! It sure made me miss Young Womens and made me reflect upon the days....ha when I was in Young Womens. If any of my young womens leaders from the past are reading this email, I just wanted to say THANK YOU, thank you for everything that you taught me in Young Womens. To all those who have taken time to teach me to have Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge,Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity and Virtue! I am eternally grateful! I know that it has been a part to mold me in to the person that I am today. To the daughter of our Loving Heavenly Father. I hope to someday be a young womens leader and to help those girls as you have helped me.
So Sunday night the girls came with us and we went to Woodside to go to the musical fireside that the Elders and Sisters from Woodside put on. It reminded me a LOT of when LIGHT would put on firesides! It was incredible!! It was all about the "Reflections of Christ" and it was all about Christ life. Halfway during the fireside I turned around, and to my surprize I was looking at AMANDA and DEREK WALKER walk in! oh man I about had a HEART attack ( as my companion tells me) haha they came and sat down right next to me!
Shout out- AMANDA WALKER I LOVE YOU! I am so grateful for you in my life and am so blessed to have you as my friend! You have helped me in everything and always been there for me! I love you!!!
Well family! I love you! You are all in my prayers! Remember that God Loves each and every one of us. And that he is just waiting for us with open arms, waiting for us to come unto him. To have faith in him, to repent and to follow his example! He loves us so much and sees our potential. May we all look for that potential in every one us the people that we meet and come across and just show our love for them!
Mucho Love,
Hermana Gray
Let Him Share Your Burden
"Turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load."
Donald L. Hallstrom, "Turn to the Lord," Ensign, May 2010, 80
Topics: Grace, Jesus Christ, Adversity
So We had a Preach My gospel Bowl with the entire mission! And the winning district got to take the ENTIRE ZONE to the temple!! Oh man Hermana Lambert and I were SO excited!!!!! So we have been studying like CRAZY! Well....GUESS what!?! WE WON!! Our zone won and so we will be taking a trip to the temple tomorrow as a zone I CANT WAIT!! Also I get to go for my half way mark this Wednesday! I am excited to go to the temple but not so much about my half way....time sure goes by WAY too fast!! So temple twice this week! I am HAPPY!! :)
Hermana Lambert and I have been praying to recieve a good solid referral and the other day our prayers were answered. Hermana Lambert and I were coming home from an appointment when we recieved a medial refferal from Church Headquarters, so we were really excited! So we immediately contacted it. We called and it was a father who had two daughters who really wanted a Book of Mormon. We were SO excited! So the next day we were going to go over there, however they called us to reschedule for Saturday. So then went on Saturday at 4 Oclock. When we got to their apartment we were welcomed inside. We then waited as he went to get his two daughters, Juliana and Alexandra, ages 11 & 13 The father Alex then proceeded to tell us that he as a member. My companion and I were shocked, for we had never seen him or heard of his family. He then told us that they have not been active in the church for quite some time now. We then asked the girls what made them want a Book of Mormon. They then told us that they were talking to their dad and he began talking about the Book of Mormon and then the girls just had that desire and wanted to know how they could become closer to their Heavenly Father. They told us that when their dad was talking about the Book of Mormon that the older girl Alexandra immediately got on the computer and went to Mormon.org and ordered her own personal copy of the Book of Mormon. She was so excited! She told her friend Vanessa how excited she was to get her new book!
The three girls (the Ayalya girls and her friend) sat on the couch as we began teaching them. You should have seen their faces when we handed each one of them their very own copy of the Book of Mormon. Little Juliana was crying she was so happy to be hearing from us and learning about the Book of Mormon. We were able to teach them the restoration....it was one of the most powerful lessons I have ever been in. The spirit was so strong, everyone felt it! We invited these girls to be baptized and they accepted! They are SO excited! The father was more than happy to have us over. In all of my mission I have never met girls such like angels. They are so intune with the spirit and they just want nothing more than to follow the example of our Savior Jesus Christ and to do what is right. The dad said that they could come to church on Sunday!
So Sunday we went to go and pick the girls up for church! They stayed all three hours, we were able to go to young womens with them and they loved it! It sure made me miss Young Womens and made me reflect upon the days....ha when I was in Young Womens. If any of my young womens leaders from the past are reading this email, I just wanted to say THANK YOU, thank you for everything that you taught me in Young Womens. To all those who have taken time to teach me to have Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge,Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity and Virtue! I am eternally grateful! I know that it has been a part to mold me in to the person that I am today. To the daughter of our Loving Heavenly Father. I hope to someday be a young womens leader and to help those girls as you have helped me.
So Sunday night the girls came with us and we went to Woodside to go to the musical fireside that the Elders and Sisters from Woodside put on. It reminded me a LOT of when LIGHT would put on firesides! It was incredible!! It was all about the "Reflections of Christ" and it was all about Christ life. Halfway during the fireside I turned around, and to my surprize I was looking at AMANDA and DEREK WALKER walk in! oh man I about had a HEART attack ( as my companion tells me) haha they came and sat down right next to me!
Shout out- AMANDA WALKER I LOVE YOU! I am so grateful for you in my life and am so blessed to have you as my friend! You have helped me in everything and always been there for me! I love you!!!
Well family! I love you! You are all in my prayers! Remember that God Loves each and every one of us. And that he is just waiting for us with open arms, waiting for us to come unto him. To have faith in him, to repent and to follow his example! He loves us so much and sees our potential. May we all look for that potential in every one us the people that we meet and come across and just show our love for them!
Mucho Love,
Hermana Gray
Let Him Share Your Burden
"Turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load."
Donald L. Hallstrom, "Turn to the Lord," Ensign, May 2010, 80
Topics: Grace, Jesus Christ, Adversity
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