On Tuesday mornings, our district does service at a Nature
Center. This week we went, and after being there for awhile we decided to go
walk the trails and pick up trash because we hadn't done that in a long time.
As we were walking I found this really long trail of fire ants carrying leaves.
I was following and watching this trail, and all of a sudden I looked over and
there was a snake a couple inches from my foot. I bright, black, red, and
yellow striped one. It was scary looking. Anyway, I jumped really high and ran
a few feet. Sis. Colton said that I made a noise that sounded like Scooby-Doo.
It was pretty funny. That has been our story for this week.
Megan is getting baptized on Friday! We are very excited
about that! Tim isn't getting baptized this week. He isn't quite ready yet. He
still has some lessons left and stuff, but he will get baptized in a month or
so. Megan is excited about her baptism and its going to be great.
This weekend we started teaching a girl named Sarah. She is
the sister of a lady who was baptized last year. She said that she just found
God, and wants to learn more. So we met with her and answered some of her
questions and gave her a Book of Mormon, and then the next day taught her the
Restoration. Her sister is very excited about all of this. Sarah came to church
yesterday and told Sis. Colton that she was really glad she came and she really
liked it. We're glad she came, too.
We did more service this week for members, nonmembers, and
inactive members. It was great. On Wednesday, we helped a potential
investigator with her yard. She is an elderly, single lady (never been married)
and is the neighbor of one of our members. We met her at dinner at their house
about a month ago. Her name is Mary Ellen. She is hilarious and really nice.
She loves it when we come over. She really appreciated our help with her yard.
We ended up stopping by again on Friday night, and she ended up telling us
about how she feels like God hates her and He is punishing her and has just
left her all together. He doesn't have any hand in her life anymore. It was so
sad. PLEASE never forget that God loves you perfectly and that He will
never leave your side! He will always be guiding your life with His
hand. Anyway, it broke our hearts and Sis. Colton started crying a little
bit. She says that she likes her church and isn't going to get baptized into
ours, but goodness, she needs the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. She has so
many questions and is confused. We assured her that God loves her very much and
that He will never leave her alone. And talked about the Atonement and taught a
brief restoration lesson. She was really touched by what we had to say.
I hope everyone had a great Easter! It was so great to be
able to focus so much on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful for His
sacrifice. He loves us so much. He suffered all that He did because He knew
that we were all worth it. He knows how great of a potential we have as sons
and daughters of God.
Love,
Sister Sylvester
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