Sunday, September 16, 2012

Here I am again, another week past.  I realized after posting last week that I should have started with a gigantic THANK YOU to all who called over the weekend...it was SO nice to be able to hear your voices and to know how things are going for you.  So this time I will start with a big THANK YOU to those who have called this week...what a difference it makes in my attitude for the week ahead:)!

This week we have 70+ missionaries being transferred tomorrow - north to south, east to west - from Salem to Yreka, California.  As President Young said, this is going to be awesome - the best transfer ever!  Well, that is Monday - Dad & Brother Wells and President Watts will be gone most of the day driving vans, trucks and trailers, while the "girls" hold down the office & prepare for Tuesday.  On Tuesday we have 20 new missionaries arriving with all the usual arrival procedures which take the majority of the day; bed will feel really good on Tuesday night!  Wednesday the departing missionaries will go to the temple...there is a chance we may go to, but maybe not.  It will be a full and busy week at the office...

Friday night the Relief Society in the ward we attend is having a crafts night & dinner...hoping to have energy left for that:).  That is about all I can think of at the moment....

NOPE...I want to add another e-mail from our Prineville Senior Sister Wyman:  Here is what she said:

"I felt I should send this to the OEM office  this morning.  

"As we help prepare others for baptism later this month we felt a humble desire to share our testimony to our beloved fellow missionaries of the OEM.
At first we thought that we had to convince people to accept being taught and baptized.  That was truly intimidating!    We know we are inadequate!
Then, last fall we read this inspirational promise from President Henry B. Eyring and it totally changed our mission:

"'The Lord trusts His true disciples.  He sends prepared people to His prepared servants.  You have had the experience, as have I, of meeting people    where you were sure the meeting could not have been by chance.'

"(And on finding investigators he said: ) 'The Lord will lead you to them or He will lead them to you.'

"Elder Eyring's words made us realize that the Lord has already done the hard part.   Now all we have to do is live worthy of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, and simply believe all of the promises the Lord gives us in His scriptures.  We testify that the field truly is white and the elect are all around us, just waiting for our message of eternal life.  If you come across someone who turns you away, they are simply not yet prepared.  Just keep searching for those who are."

Sister and Elder Wyman
La Pine Ward

That's enough for now:)!