September 28, 2015

It's been a pretty uneventful week, sadly. I feel like it's been very very busy, but I look back on the week and realize that there isn't anything terribly exciting to report on. Oh! Okay. Three things, I guess. 

1) we had another great lesson with our investigator, Paul. He seems to want to know everything about everything, but isn't exactly looking in the right places. He read about Mormonism on Wikipedia, printed out the whole article, made notes and hi lighted things, and then brought it to the lesson to ask a million questions. He's smart enough to know what anti looks like, but he did become interested in some deep doctrine type things. Such as: Do Mormons believe in a Heavenly Mother? and, Do you believe God created the universe from nothing or that He organized matter that was already there? It was an interesting discussion, and poor Sister Alcántara got a little lost (her English is seriously amazing, but if you read straight from Wikipedia, you get lots of big words that she was unfamiliar with), but it was nothing crazy. We taught about the commandments of prayer and scripture study, and Paul loved when we taught that prayer should be a two way conversation. Sister Alcántara bore her testimony of prayer, and  it really seemed to touch with him. 

2) On Thursday, Sister Alcántara woke up with a rash all over one leg. We called our missionary medical person, Sister Ito, and she told us to go to the urgent care. We got ready for the day and did studies, and by the end of all that, the rash was almost gone, so we didn't go to the urgent care. On Friday night, it returned with a vengeance, appearing on both legs, both arms, and her stomach. We called Sister Ito again, and she told us that the only urgent care open at that time of night (almost 9:30 pm) near us was in Manassas. So we left the apartment in a rush, running into our ward mission leader on the way (he was confused at why we were leaving at curfew) and drove to Manassas. The doctor gave her some anti itch cream and anti itch pills, and both of those helped her a ton. We made it home at 11. We were SO TIRED. Sister Alcántara had been thinking about what could have caused it, and she's pretty sure she is allergic to chocolate. Sad, right? 

3) Last night was something called the "why I believe fireside." Terryl and Fiona Givens (authors of The Crucible of Doubt and The God Who Weeps) were the guest speakers. It was amazing!! All the missionaries and the youth in the stake sang at the beginning in a choir, and it was really great. I loved singing in the choir. The fireside itself was just incredible. I don't even know where to start to explain it. It was just such a wonderful reminder and testimony to me that Heavenly Father knows and loves each one of us very personally and that He Is very close to us.

Anyway, that's about it for this week. I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful week. The Church is true. I know it because I asked God. He knows all things and He is my Father, so He answered me, and I know this is the true Church. It is Christ's Church.

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

 Moroni 10:4-5

Sister Taylor