So this week went by really quickly. And we had the most amazing miracle happen! On Tuesday I think, we were going to visit a less active from the ward. While we were on our way there, Sister Huang remembered that a bus contact she found a few weeks ago lived near the area we were in, and she suggested we call her to see if we could stop by. The less active wasn't home, so we stopped by our potential, who was a 16 year old girl. Both she and her mom listened to the first lesson right then and they both agreed to be baptized if they came to know the gospel was true! It was truly amazing. We have met with them twice since then. We can already tell that their progression will be slow, because they are confused a bit about which Christian church is the true church, but we are going to try to just serve them and let them know that we love them and that Heavenly Father loves them too. It was just so wonderful, they are both so great!
(By the way, in the previous paragraph, both the words "mom" and "baptized" have little red lines underneath them telling me I spelled them wrong. It's supposed to be "mum" and "baptised". Oh British English.)
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| This is a picture drawn by Jevara, the little member whose house we visit every week to do FHE with her and her brother and mom. Her mom is Lithuanian and so sweet. And i'm teaching Jevara a bit of piano every week as well, which is fun. It says to Sister Larson and Sister Hwong. Eh, she got close on the spelling. :) It's a picture of a princess sister missionary, haha! |
Anyways, other than that we are continuing to teach Ting Ting, who is still so fun and progressing so well! She is truly one of our miracles as well. She will be baptised next Saturday on the 14th! So excited! She is so great with keeping commitments and being willing to come to church. She sat through Stake Conference with us on Sunday, even though she'd stayed up most of the night before studying for exams.
As for the spiritual thought of the week, I wanted to share a quote from conference about courage:
"Everyday courage has few witnesses, but yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name." It was in President Monson's talk, and I thought that it was really remarkable. It is easy to want to blend in with the crowd and be accepted by the world, and it is much harder to stay true to your belief. But I've learned that every little act of courage makes you a little more confident, and every action done in faith will strengthen your testimony and deepen your conversion. "Be not afraid, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest."
I love you all! Have a marvelous week!
Love,
Sister Larson
Bonus story from a personal letter:
Quick funny story: so here in Britain they have another name for cilantro. They call it coriander. So I was telling Sis. Huang that, and she was like "They call it coriantumr?" And I was like, "No, coriander!" But it was funny. So now you can call cilantro Coriantumr, in my honor. Honour, sorry spell check. The other day I said car park of my own free will! I was horrified. I'm speaking British! :)
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