Blessed to be in Centralia!

May 25, 2015

Family!

We've had such an amazing week it's unreal. We feel very, VERY blessed!

Have I told you about the P's yet?

Sister P. is a member of the ward, recently moved in, and we just started teaching her husband, R.! I love R. He was ready to be baptized when we met him! He told us on Sunday after church, "I think I'm finding the thing that was missing in my life." Golden. God is truly leading us to prepared people! We were able to teach the Restoration to him this week, and it was one of the most powerful lessons I've been in! When we shared Joseph Smith's testimony of the First Vision, more than one of the people in the room were crying! It's so wonderful to see Sister P. so happy because she gets to share the truth with someone she loves so much. We love love teaching him.

Saturday was incredible! We had a mission "finding" day where the entire mission prayed to be led to those who were prepared for the gospel. We set a goal to find 2 new investigators that day, and were able to find 3! One of them was the father of a part-member family, the S's! We've been teaching his two teenage daughters, and we've been trying to teach him, but every time we would start a lesson he would disappear, even though we invited him to listen. But this time, between us praying our hearts out and the spirit working on him, something made him want to listen! It was perfect--The message we shared was about families being together forever through God's plan of happiness. When we were explaining the missionary work that happens in the spirit world, you could tell he felt something. He asked us about one of his dear friends who had recently passed away, who had not been baptized or taken the time to learn about Christ. We were able to testify that yes--he was now learning about the gospel in the spirit world, and he would be given the chance to accept it! I love the plain and precious truths of this gospel. They are what bring the joy to missionary work!

I'm out of time for now, got to go on exchanges with Sister Sperry!

Next Monday I won't be emailing either, P day is moved to Tuesday because of another mission conference we are having! I can hardly believe it, but Elder D Todd Christofferson is coming to the mission! We are seriously thrilled to have 2 apostles coming to the mission within just a couple months!


Sister Petrie

Also, J. from Danville got baptized this week.
There are no words to express how much I love them!