Woot Familia do I have exciting news for you!Sister Jenkins and I get to have another transfer together, woot to the woot! Tee hee we were both praying for it but it was funny because we both felt like if someone was going to get transferred it would be me but guess what? EVEN BETTER!!! WE are training a Newbie Sister!!!! Yaahoooo we are going to be a trio! Ha ha, crazy eh? It cracks me up to imagine it, the three of us riding our bikes everywhere (oh which by the way we got this week, yay). Oh and I guess I never explained Mom and Pops, we switch off with the car every other week with the elders, so one week we're on car and the next bike. She should be here already and we will be picking her up tomorrow, I am super excited if you couldn't tell. What a tender mercy from the Lord! Sister Jenkins and I just adore and love each other, we seriously have an awesome companionship and relationship and are just really unified and we have seen it progress our work like crazy, we hardly know what to do with ourselves. It is such a blessing and an honor to get to train with her and have another missionary so that way we can do splits and get twice as much work done.Other great news I forgot to mention was we got to meet President Cusick and his family last week and they are amazing. Oh and before I share more about that, fantastic news! Robert and Chrissy are doing so much better, they have been to every church activity we have invited them to and supported the YW's auction to raise money for Girls Camp more then anyone else at the activity and they have been to church 2 weeks in a row now and brought more appropriate food (ha ha) - I'm so proud of them. They had a difficult situation where they had Child Protective Services called on them but luckily were able to keep the kids and Chrissy now has a warning that if they ever catch her drunk again when they check up randomly then she will be taken away and put into rehab. When we talked with Chrissy, she called it her rude awakening but she knows it's what she needs. She really does love us so much and kept reassuring Sister Jenkins and I (even when she was drunk) that we are making a difference and to not think that we're wasting our time. She says that she can feel our spirits and that she can feel our happiness and that it definitely makes a difference and has an influence on their family. We testified that she can have it to and will if she puts forth the effort of scriptures and prayers. They are doing so much better. And Robert has such a strong testimony, he's already a missionary and has been sharing it with his neighbors and friends. They are amazing, we just pray that they will make the decision to be married so they can make the steps to baptism. As tough as it has been it is beautiful to see the spirit of God changing their lives. Slowly but surely! :)Oh and another tender mercy that just testify's of the amazing difference member's make! I love our branch, they are getting a lot more involved and finally stepping it up. Although they have always been super sweet to us when after our first baptism we found a note in our mail box that said, "Gulfport Branch loves her Sisters." We don't know who it was from but it really helped lift our spirits. Anywho, the cool tender mercy is Christine Pitt's is getting baptized this Sunday. She is one of our member's girlfriend and he told her that he was only going to marry someone in the temple and so she took time on her own and started looking up stuff and loved it and asked to meet with the missionaries. So we met her about 2 weeks ago with her boyfriend and the 2nd week she wanted to be baptized. It is amazing what members can do because when we weren't teaching her, she was learning more with Peter about the church. I can also reassure you all that she has found out for herself and not for Peter. She's the most golden investigator we've had. Well, Sister Sloat was amazing as well, but she already knew it was all true before we even met with her, ha ha. Christine read every pamphlet 3 times and more, she read up to 1 Nep 17 and decided to re-read what she already read, and she read the Gospel Principles book Peter gave her. She is stellar and we were going to have her baptism on July 20th and she asked to move it to the 14th. She is, as President Cusick described her (after he interviewed her), "an absolute angel." She is in her 40s or 50s and is very soft spoken, and just so sweet and gentle that the description of angel fits her perfectly. I have been stunned with her, she just is the perfect example of someone striving to be a celestial being.I can't wait for her baptism this week and it truly is a night and day's difference of finding an investigator on our own and teaching them for months and they know it's all true but for some reason won't pick a baptismal date and they don't have any fears compared to an investigator who hears a small portion about the gospel through a friend and then meets with us with and their friend and in the 2nd week asks their friend when they can get baptized. Please find an opportunity to have your friends over to meet the missionaries!!! It is what is moving the work forward and if you have fears call the missionaries and ask them to help you create a mission plan to overcome any concerns. The nice part is members have the easiest part, you do the friend-shipping and us missionaries do the teaching and little do you realize you already have done most of the teaching by your love and example to your friend! There are some awesome quotes I would ask you all to read in Preach my gospel, page 12 and 13. IT is SO COOL! read read! From our prophets.
Ok, I'm running out of time and will get off my soap box :) Oh one more thing READ YOUR SCRIPTURES AND SAY YOUR PRAYERS. It is crucial and essential that we take time for those daily and not many people realize, praying and reading your scriptures are commandments of God. Ok I'll stop, I love you all!Oh and some nice thoughts from President Cusick, he talked about the vision of the south that President Kimball had and I don't have the whole quote but look it up, it really got me pumped up and grateful to be serving here in the south and the excitment to look forward to, of having in the future as many temples here as in Utah. I pray and hope to see it before I come home. Also a beautiful theme that President Cusick had was understanding our potential and what we can become. His vision is... "My calling is too look into the future and see the mission not as it is...but as it can become." May we all see the Lord's vision and take time to see it, read your scriptures!!! :D So, who is in charge, the Lord is!!! Oh and he had 3 nice thoughts about companionship unity:
1. What do I love about my companion?
2. What have I learned today?
3. What am I willing to change? Oh and 3 Nep. 7:16-26.
Well, I love you all so much and thank you so much for the birthday package and love :) It was a great birthday and sweet Sister Jenkins made me breakfast and made enough to last the whole day, it was delightful.I love you all and oh mama the scripture I'm pondering today....hmmm, I will get back to you on that! Ha ha, hopefully through snail mail, I love that question, What scripture are you pondering today?! I'll bring a scripture next email if you will?Love you, love you lovvvveeee you!Sister Tasha Cosette Bush
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