Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving because it is such a wonderful time to reflect on all of your wonderful blessing. I just have to say that I am so thankful for all of you. For your support while I am out here, for your desire to help me with any and everything. I truly do love you.
This week has been an interesting one if I do say so. Tuesday and Wednesday were jam packed with lessons because of the Holiday. So we were teaching a lot those first couple of days. Our investigators are still just chugging along. I think they are all doing great.
Thursday we went out to do missionary work. There was only one slight problem with this… we are on campus. Campus was closed and literally NO ONE was on campus… So we decided to be creative. We got sidewalk chalk and walked to campus talking to the few souls on campus we got to play with SIDEWALK Chalk! It was great. All over campus we wrote down things like, “Want to Serve, Help #Light the World.” “In a world full of darkness help bring out the LIGHT!” and “Because I have been given much I too must give. #Light the world”.
Funny story of the week. Most of you know how much I truly enjoy Chemistry. Every-time I am here on campus and we walk by or through the chemistry building I say, "I HATE CHEMISTRY!" (The funniest part is I will probably be taking more classes when I get home. Yay for me) Anyway, usually after we leave the building we start playing the periodic table game. I ask them an element and they tell me what it is. We were playing this week and I asked, what is O in the periodic table, and Sister Eisert yells, "WATER!" Oh it was so funny, Sister Larsen and I busted up laughing. In case you are wondering water is H2O. It gave us a good laugh.
Our investigators overall are doing pretty great. We have decided to move Wiley's baptism to this next weekend because of the holiday. We are so excited for them and are praying for many more miracles this holiday season.
We had a surprise baptism this weekend though. It is one of the elders investigators Savannah. She is so cute and great. We were so happy for her. She had such an amazing experience. She was feeling very nervous, but her whole family came to support her and after the baptism they took two copies of the Book of Mormon and are wanting to read them. She came right up to us after and gave us each big hugs.
Yesterday church was just amazing. It felt like the whole thing was just centered around Savannah. The whole branch was just lifted up. There was a lot of talk about blessing and things we are thankful for. As I was study yesterday I ran across something really cool. It started with at church, President Volz was talking about the gift of charity. He was quoting the scripture that says, "If ye have not charity, ye are nothing." That started to make me think. As I was doing my personal studies later I was studying Christ-like attributes. I came across a scripture in Moroni 8 that talks about the first principles and ordinance of the gospel and these attributes. I decided that in order to truly live by the first principles and ordinances of the gospel we have to be applying different Christ-like attributes. That they truly work together so that we can become like our Savior.
This week is also transfer week! So I will be emailing on Saturday instead of Monday.
I love you all and hope that you start on Light the World on Friday. It seems so fantastic. I can't wait for it to officially begin. I love you!
Love Always,
Sister Milar
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