Wow, this week went by so fast! It was such a good week though! A lot of great things happened!
Our
investigator passed her baptismal interview!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so
excited!!!!!!! She really is quite an amazing person and I can't wait
for her to get baptized!!! It's happening this Saturday!
I've
been learning a lot about receiving revelation through prayer. With the
technology that's come in, we've also received access to a completely
new chapter 8 in Preach my Gospel. They completely rewrote the chapter
and changed how we do weekly planning. Now we plan for each person
individually. This week while doing our weekly planning we had a cool
experience. Here we cover both the Nanaimo ward and the Qualicum branch.
There are 2 sets of missionaries in the Nanaimo ward (us and then the
elders) but only us sisters cover Qualicum. We were only teaching one
person in Qualicum, a man whom I will call Chris. He is amazing and
really searching for the truth. We are also working with his x-wife in
Nanaimo whom I will call Sophia. They have a 2 year old daughter who is
really adorable. Sophia is a less active member and is so kind and
inviting. As we've met with both Chris and Sophia I have just felt
Heavenly Father's love for them so strongly. To begin our weekly
planning process we said a prayer for Chris, so we could seek Heavenly
Father's guidance on what is best for this person. After praying for him
there is a series of questions we ask to guide us in the planning
process. One of the questions is "what do you feel Heavenly Father wants
to have happen next with this person?" All of a sudden we both just
realized that Chris needs the elders. He hasn't been progressing lately
and the spirit just whispered to us that if the elders taught him, he
would receive the help he needed and that as we continued to work with
Sophia all things would work out in the end. So we called the APs and
they told us that we could pass Chris to the elders if we also gave all
of Qualicum to the elders. We felt the confirmation from the spirit that
it was what we needed to do. It was kind of sad to turn over this
little branch to the elders, but as we've been setting up everything for
the switch, I know it's what God needs. This little branch has so much
potential. I'm just grateful that the elders will be able to keep us
updated on the progress of this area. Haha I've really come to
understand the phrase "if you love something, let it go." I'm excited to
see what God has in store for Qualicum. And for Chris.
Our
decision to give up Qualicum happened right after MLC, and the theme of
MLC was submitting our will to God. Sometimes submitting our will to God
can be so hard. I used to think that it would be easy, because I have a
strong desire to please God. However, it's not as easy as it seems.
Submitting our will to God is a process of becoming. Overcoming the
natural man and becoming more like Christ. Christ was the perfect
example for us, who in the garden of Gethsemane said "Father if thou be
willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine be
done"
It was so good to go to MLC this week. As always, I
learned so much. There was a musical number of a song called "thy will
be done" and President Wong made them sing it 3 times through out the
meeting. It was really good though, so I'm not complaining. Happy
Mothers day to all the mothers out there!
Have a good week!
Sister Bloomfield
