Because I Have Been Given Much...: Week 78 Nothing but Blessings!

Where to start where to start..

Holy Okie smokers! (sorry, that's probably not too appropriate, everyone smokes here though)

This week has been so incredible! We have Teria who is getting baptized on Saturday and we're SO excited. Be praying for Teria this week. :)

We then received another miracle with the Purcell family. This less active sister moved in with her active sister in our ward and she has two children who want to be baptized! We set baptismal dates with them yesterday. They're so cute and excited.

Thomas came up to us yesterday when we were going over for a lesson, an investigator we have who is catholic and Hispanic but speaks fluent English, had a huge grin on his face. "Sisters, I did what you challenged me to do. I talked to my manager and asked for every Sunday off so that I could go to church, and he said yes! You can expect me there every Sunday"! Oh goodness. He is the happiest most humble 25'ish hispanic man I know. What a blessing to be a part of his life at this time with him. He is getting baptized on the 27th of Aug but we feel like it could be moved up. He needs to stop drinking and smoking. He knows he needs to though..so that's where it starts.

Enid is incredible. There are a great deal of Marsheilles up here (since the islands are sinking) they all congregate to certain spots in the US all together. For the most part they're all family. They attend a branch after our ward meets and if we make a Marseilles contact we send it over to the four Marseilles elders.

We also serve on an air force base here. We're not on it as much as we were in Ft. Sill or teaching but it's still neat. There was a HUGE airshow yesterday that they only hold once every couple of years. The Thunderbirds came and performed (exactly like the BLUE ANGELS father! Was it "A kind of magic" yesterday? Yes. yes it was ;) ) Ha Aaaaanyways. We went for a quick minute but the proselyting wasn't as good an opportunity as we first thought so we left. But you could see the stunts from the planes all throughout Enid. SO neat. I'm sorry this is a rather apostate email, but I can't help but feel like I'm living in Top Gun every day for a minute. There are SO many soldiers in their air force jumpsuits with aviators, driving around. (some on motorcycles..perhaps) It's rather funny.

So now to bring the spirit back, just a thought for the day. We were listening to "His Grace is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox the other day with some recent converts. In it he states that he knows that it'll be Christ at that judgement bar, pleading for us to apply His Atonement and choose celestial glory. In Mosiah 26: 26-27 It says "And then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, that I am their Redeemer; but they would not be redeemed.

And then I will confess unto them that I never knew them.."

Does that not just break your heart a little? I know that Christ is more than with us every step of the way out here. He IS the reason that we can take steps forward here, and it breaks His heart when we choose not to see how much those steps of humility and progression with his Atonement will make us happy. I want to commit all of us to be more committed to that wonderful messenger, the Holy Ghost and his promptings. It's truly those little things that will bring us lasting happiness and take us home.

Love you all!

SIster Call