Dear all,
This week I hit my 1/2 way point in the mission. It's pretty crazy! On
Thursday we had another lesson with Debbie who was our tracting
miracle from last week! We taught the plan of salvation and she told
us that she wanted to feel that peace all of the time. We testified of
the Spirit and the love Heavenly Father had for her. She got emotional
when we talked about living with our families forever and seeing loved
ones again because her cousin had just passed away the week before.
She works at a summer camp for kids that have disabilities and they go
do fun activities. It's just like the ARC of tri cities back home. She
wasn't able to come to church this week, but hopefully next week she
can come.
On Friday we finally got to have our interviews with President and
Sister Johnson! I had mine at the very beginning of last transfer and
the very end of this transfer, so it had been a long time. I love my
mission President and his wife. They are incredible people. Our
interviews were at the stake center which is in Annapolis and so
trying to get home over the Bay bridge on a Friday night made a 30
minute drive turn into a two hour drive home. Speaking of Annapolis;
every week for our district meeting we drive over to Annapolis and to
get here we have to drive right across the water from the Naval
Academy. It is such a pretty view looking over the water.
On Saturday we traveled to Easton for the day to visit people and
tract. We first stopped at Joyce's house. She is someone who requested
a copy of the Book of Mormon online at Mormon.org a couple of weeks
ago. We walked in and she was sitting on the couch pretty sad. She
told us that her boyfriend had a huge seizure that morning and had
died. We had planned on teaching the Plan of Salvation when we went
over there and she said she still would like to hear what we were
coming to talk about. I really felt the Spirit sitting there with her.
While we were in Easton, we got a text saying that both speakers
cancelled and so we were going to give talks the next day. We got back
late that night and had branch council first thing in the morning so I
didn't feel very prepared for it. Our topic was on obedience and so
luckily there was a lot we could talk on. But I enjoyed giving it.
This week is Elder Boren's 70th birthday and so all of the branch hid
in the kitchen to surprise him at the end of church. We told elder
Boren that we "had a problem with our car and needed him to look at
it" and then came back inside for the surprise. He loved it.
Something that sister Rees and I decided to do two weeks ago was to
memorize The Living Christ. We finally finished this week and it has
been a really great experience for the both of us. At first I was
memorizing it just to memorize it, but once I started really focusing
on the meaning and what it was testifying of, it was a lot more
powerful and easier to memorize. My two favorite paragraphs are the
first and last.
"As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ two millennia ago, we
offer our testimony of the reality of His matchless life and the
infinite virtue of His great atoning sacrifice. None other has had so
profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon
the earth.
We bear testimony, as His duly ordained Apostles--that Jesus is the
Living Christ, the immortal Son of God. He is the great King Immanuel,
who stands today on the right hand of His Father. He is the light, the
life, and the hope of the world. His way is the path that leads to
happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come. God be
thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son". I am so grateful
for our Savior and the example and life that He gave to us so freely.
Have a great week!!!
Love Sister Haertling
This week I hit my 1/2 way point in the mission. It's pretty crazy! On
Thursday we had another lesson with Debbie who was our tracting
miracle from last week! We taught the plan of salvation and she told
us that she wanted to feel that peace all of the time. We testified of
the Spirit and the love Heavenly Father had for her. She got emotional
when we talked about living with our families forever and seeing loved
ones again because her cousin had just passed away the week before.
She works at a summer camp for kids that have disabilities and they go
do fun activities. It's just like the ARC of tri cities back home. She
wasn't able to come to church this week, but hopefully next week she
can come.
On Friday we finally got to have our interviews with President and
Sister Johnson! I had mine at the very beginning of last transfer and
the very end of this transfer, so it had been a long time. I love my
mission President and his wife. They are incredible people. Our
interviews were at the stake center which is in Annapolis and so
trying to get home over the Bay bridge on a Friday night made a 30
minute drive turn into a two hour drive home. Speaking of Annapolis;
every week for our district meeting we drive over to Annapolis and to
get here we have to drive right across the water from the Naval
Academy. It is such a pretty view looking over the water.
On Saturday we traveled to Easton for the day to visit people and
tract. We first stopped at Joyce's house. She is someone who requested
a copy of the Book of Mormon online at Mormon.org a couple of weeks
ago. We walked in and she was sitting on the couch pretty sad. She
told us that her boyfriend had a huge seizure that morning and had
died. We had planned on teaching the Plan of Salvation when we went
over there and she said she still would like to hear what we were
coming to talk about. I really felt the Spirit sitting there with her.
While we were in Easton, we got a text saying that both speakers
cancelled and so we were going to give talks the next day. We got back
late that night and had branch council first thing in the morning so I
didn't feel very prepared for it. Our topic was on obedience and so
luckily there was a lot we could talk on. But I enjoyed giving it.
This week is Elder Boren's 70th birthday and so all of the branch hid
in the kitchen to surprise him at the end of church. We told elder
Boren that we "had a problem with our car and needed him to look at
it" and then came back inside for the surprise. He loved it.
Something that sister Rees and I decided to do two weeks ago was to
memorize The Living Christ. We finally finished this week and it has
been a really great experience for the both of us. At first I was
memorizing it just to memorize it, but once I started really focusing
on the meaning and what it was testifying of, it was a lot more
powerful and easier to memorize. My two favorite paragraphs are the
first and last.
"As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ two millennia ago, we
offer our testimony of the reality of His matchless life and the
infinite virtue of His great atoning sacrifice. None other has had so
profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon
the earth.
We bear testimony, as His duly ordained Apostles--that Jesus is the
Living Christ, the immortal Son of God. He is the great King Immanuel,
who stands today on the right hand of His Father. He is the light, the
life, and the hope of the world. His way is the path that leads to
happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come. God be
thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son". I am so grateful
for our Savior and the example and life that He gave to us so freely.
Have a great week!!!
Love Sister Haertling
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