hey everyone! t
his week has been crazy i have absolutely NO idea where the time has gone so here goes the email....
Not a ton of things to announce today but i had a super fun week! had lots of lessons with investigators and had the priveledge to have my first investigator get interviewed for baptism.... and he passed! Andy Bastien will be baptized this saturday at 10am at the North Stake Centre in Edmonton and of course you are all invited! lol :D i'm very excited and andy is so wonderful and so ready he's practically a member already i swear it!
Lots of birthdays this week which was fun! Andy and Kevin our two investigators were celebrating birthdays so we made them crepes with nutella, peanut butter and fruit and ate them while having our usual morning lessons. it's a great way to start off the day! for andy i made him wear a birthday hat, we sang and had a candle in his crepe it was hilarious! I'll attach some pictures...
Canada day was friday and we had some lessons set up but because of the no proselyting rule on holidays me and sister hayes hit the parties! We first went to St. Albert and went to their celebration in the park. there was entertainment, watermelon, tatoos, baloons, tanks and cherry picker machines you could go up in! haha good times.... we then went and stopped by a free bbq and it was so funny...... we were standing in line when we realized we didn't really fit in with the homeless crowd but we enjoyed the burgers and hot dogs and chatted with the people :D We then spent the rest of the afternoon down at the edmonton legislature building because it was open to the public! so we got to go all around inside and all the fountains out front were just full of little kids swimming and playing. the weather was perfect and overall i had a blast! lots of love for my home country :D
Well! we spent a lot of our time finding also this week and i had a really intense experience that is hard to share over email but in short it really affected me to the point that when i was sittign in fast and testimony meeting this sunday i couldn't help but get up. i felt so strongly to share my testimony of the book of mormon.... a lady we had tracted into after a while of chatting looked at me straight in the eye and said to me, after i had bore my testimony of having a prophet, "i am so sad that a young girl like you would blindly follow a man's interpretation of the scriptures, you need to read the verses for yourself and interpret them for yourself to know what they say and follow your own spirit". i was shocked! and hurt..... had my testimony come off as fake or brainwahsed? i litterally write this letter today to tell everyone who reads it that i know PERSONALLY that the book of mormon and the bible are the word of God. i have ready EVERY verse of scripture, i have prayed, studied and read them again and i can bare witness that the book of mormon is the book in which we can be the closest to God and Jesus Christ. If there is any thing going wrong in your life, questions, concerns, trials, unrest, turn to the book of mormon and in it you will receive peace, direction and confidence. i love this work, i love being a missionary and i love seeing the way people's hearts change and turn towards christ as they read from the book of mormon. i love you all and thank you for all the birthday wishes! i'm excited to turn 22 tomorrow... craziness!!!
peace and blessings ( haha)
with love, sister wotherspoon
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