Hello friends and family from the very icy Spencer, Iowa. Hope you are all doing amazing and enjoying the new month of March. March is a great month. Not only does it have my favorite holiday, but it also is my mom's birthday. Plus, this year we get Easter in March as well. Many wonderful things to look forward to this month. So this past week was an amazing week. There were so many awesome/crazy experiences it would be impossible to tell them all to you. One cool thing though is that we are teaching a new investigator named Amanda. She is the upstairs neighbor of a young family in our ward named the Schmids. Sis, Schmid just starting talking to Amanda one day and they were getting to know each other. The subject of religion came up and Amanda said she didn't know much about the Bible or about Christ. Well they started talking and reading the Bible together and she was really learning a lot. Sis. Schmid told her about us, and invited us over to teach her. The first lesson we had with her she talked about how she has never been baptized, and that she wants to be. It was really awesome. The next lesson we took her on a tour of the church, and watched the Restoration video. She said she could really relate to Joseph Smith, and that she believed what happened to him was true. It was really awesome. On Sunday we had a great stake conference that was broadcast from Salt Lake City to all of the stakes in nine states across the mid-west. Elder Oaks and other general authorities spoke, and it was really amazing. It was like a little taste of what is coming with conference.
So spiritual thought this week is about true faith. Last night we watched a CES fireside devotional with the YSA's and Elder Bednar spoke. First of all, he is probably my favorite current apostle, so I was very excited to hear him speak. He spoke about trials and about true faith. He talked about a young man who had just barely been married three weeks earlier and was told he had bone cancer. As he was going through this trial, Elder Bednar stopped and visited him. The man asked him to give him a blessing. Elder Bednar said he would, but first he asked him a question. He said, "Do you have the faith not to be healed? If it is the Lord's will to transfer you to the spirit world, will you accept that?" What a hard question to ask. This young man wrote about how he learned then what true faith was. True faith is believing and knowing that Heavenly Father does have the power to do anything, including healing this young man. Although we have the belief that He can do that, true faith is manifest when we accept the Lord's will for us. What an eye opening realization for me. Although we will not all have the same trials as this young man, let us all learn to learn of the power of the Lord and learn to submit to His will, knowing that all things will work together for our good. I love you all, and hope you have an amazing week.
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