What a wonderful week leading up to the Easter celebration of our Lord and Savior's sacrifice and resurrection. It was a wonderful time of learning and teaching once again. We got in contact again with [a woman] who Sister Benjamin and I had found about a month ago. She had set a baptism date and then after a couple of lessons wasn't home for our appointments. This last week we stopped by and she let us right in. She told us she had been thinking about us and felt bad for not contacting us. She has been going through some tough stuff and just got overwhelmed. But we had a great couple of lessons this week, and then she came to church on Sunday! She looked so happy and really clicked with one of the members! I'm excited for her!
Transfer news also came this last Friday! Sister Sellers and Elder Jones [the district leader] are leaving to Mississippi. . . . Everyone else in our district is staying. We are sad to see them go, but they will do well in their new areas. I've loved living as 4 sisters in an apartment. Sister Sellers is amazing and has taught me a ton. She also blessed me with her services by trimming up my hair a couple inches last night before she left early this morning. We sisters will miss her! We are, however, excited for the sister coming in, Sister Anderson! I've never met her, but I've heard great things about her, so it will be fun to get to know her! Our new District Leader is actually one of our Elders already here, Elder Joseph. So he will just be switching areas within the ward and will now be serving as our District Leader. Now his old companion, Elder Muhile (moo-hee-lay), is going to be training a brand new missionary! So we will have two missionaries in our district and ward being trained! (Sister Boehula and Elder Muhile's companion) I'm super excited for this upcoming transfer! Gladys Knight is coming a week from Thursday (May 1st), and so many people are coming! I know that she, her husband, and her choir are going to change so many hearts and lives of the people living here in Shreveport. Over 2200 people have said they are coming. I'm so excited to see it all pan out! It's going to be a crazy time (kind of like being a hostess at Rodizio Grill on BYU graduation Day (; ), but it is going to be amazing! At the event they will be handing out papers for the people to request more information/a missionary visit. They want us to contact all of them within a week...wow. :) Like I said, it will be crazy, but it will be so amazing!
The last couple of weeks we've also been teaching a man [and the couple we've been teaching]. We've also received so many referrals! I think it's prep for the Gladys Knight Devotional coming up! [The couple we're teaching is] doing well. Sister Boehula and I felt prompted to let them have a few days to really pray, ponder, and read the Book of Mormon. So we told them Sunday and are giving them their own time until Thursday when we will visit them again. It was so hard to do that! I actually shed a few tears as I bore testimony and just listened to them. It felt like I was saying good-bye or something, even though it's just a few days. I guess it feels like a lot when you're used to seeing them 4 times a week. I know that this personal time for them is important though, as it is for each of us. It hit me the other day that in order to place ourselves under the guiding influence of the Holy Spirit, we need to give ourselves personal time with the Lord - to pray, ponder, and read. That alone time with the Lord is crucial for our growth and our conversion. It is a must for our understanding.
Easter Sunday was a beautiful day and we enjoyed a lot of time to study and ponder on the Lord Jesus Christ. We were blessed to be fed by two member families, and also to see the special experience of the Elders giving the sacrament in someone's home. This sweet, strong sister in our ward is basically home bound because of medical challenges, but she has one of the strongest spirits I know! It was such a blessing to see the simplicity and power of the atonement in the personal administration of the sacrament to this wonderful and mighty woman of the Lord. I am so grateful for her example. I am grateful for the power of the Savior, our Savior and brother Jesus Christ. I love Him and know that He is risen! He lived and died for us, and now ask that we live for Him too. I know Him, and come to know Him a little bit better every day. I look forward to the day when I can see Him again and let Him know face to face how much I love Him!
Know Him. Love Him. Seek to have His love in your heart and you will have joy! He loves you! May you all have a very joyful week! Love you all!
P.S. Here is a picture of our District Easter Sunday, yes some of us can be goof balls at times :)
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