TEMPLE WEEK!

 LOVE THE TEMPLE!

The rain came down and in ten minutes it was flooding! luckily we had our rain boots when the flash flood hit!

6/02/14

Hola familia!!

What another wonderful week of miracles!! I could list a million reasons for why I love serving in the Texas Houston Mission.. one of those reasons... THE TEMPLE! We weren't able to go last transfer because of the cleaning schedule, so it had been 3 long months since we had attended. I am so grateful for the true peace and love that we feel when we are there.

I think last night from 7:30-9:30 was the most miracle filled of the whole week! Well... that's debateable, but it was definitely up there. Earlier on in the week we had tried to contact one of our potential investigators, and instead met her son who said he had looked into a lot of different doctrines, but he just felt confused, so he said he would love to meet with us! Well our appointment was at 7 but he wasn't there, but his mom called him and he asked us to please please wait, so we did and meanwhile his mother fed us quesadillas and we talked about her about the restoration and she really seemed interested! When he got home we had such an incredible lesson and the apostasy and restoration were so powerful for him! That lots of those different doctrines that he has studied do have great parts of the truth, but no one had the FULLNESS, that's why it had to be restored!! He is so excited to read and very determined to pray to know the truth. It was an incredible lesson, but because we started sort of late, it went kind of long and we showed up to our 8:00 appointment at... 8:40... It was also with a potential investigator that we had met in the street the week before. Well we got there and she gladly welcomed us in! She said she was so worried that we weren't going to come! She also said that she had gone to lots of different churches but just never felt like they were quite right. We taught the restoration and she felt so strongly about the importance of having a living prophet because there is so much confusion now!! Both of them excitedly committed to be baptized by someone who has the authority when they know that it is true! Aye. This is the Lord's work. There are soooo many prepared people! We just have to trust that the Lord will put them in our paths and OPEN OUR MOUTHS!! But I love what President shared in his letter this past week, it was a quote from Elder David A. Bednar that said "The future growth of the Church will not happen through just knocking on strangers' doors.  It will happen when the members, along with our missionaries, filled with the love of God and Christ discern needs and respond to those needs in the spirit of charitable service". I know that if we are truly seeking to develop Christlike love for all of God's children and to serve him, even more will be prepared and ready to receive the fullness of these blessings. We aren't here building up a church, we are here helping God's children receive peace in this life and eternal salvation in the next! President shared that if we "strive to increase our capacity to love in order to be more effective instruments in God's hands". I love being a missionary and I love that missionary work doesn't stop at 18 months. Maybe I won't be knocking on strangers doors at 8:40.. but It's a lifetime calling as a disciple of Christ.

I love you all so much! Have a wonderful week! Happy hurricane season :)

los quiero,

Hermana Draper