Dear Family and Friends,
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| On Mt. Skilak hiking a few weeks ago!! |
This week has been getting colder- we had our first snow in Kenai- even
though we were up in Nikiski when it happened and it was more of just rain up
there, but our first frost happened yesterday, so the snow is coming- it is
sticking to the grass in Anchorage we hear. There is a member who calls us "Girl
Team." We love it. We are also getting so excited for all the Holidays!
Something I though of this week is that Halloween seems to be a missionary
holiday- everyone is going from door to door, we just have something greater to
offer than candy.
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| The Temperature is going DOWN! |
Someone we met this week in our ward has a farm, and while he was going
back to show us the horses, steer, etc, we noticed that they had a REINDEER! It
was so awesome-- the reindeer was nervous around people, but calmed down just
enough for us to pet it a little bit and take a picture. We have been able to go
back and do a bit of service for them- first time we met him though, he was
sharing with us how his wife makes glass and they make it from scotch and we
were about to say a prayer with him when he asked us to wait a second and ran
way across his farm and said "I can't have a bottle of scotch in my hand while
we're praying, that's sacreligious!"
So Sister Burbank and I are working on getting a few words out of our
vocabularies and so we started a friendly competition a week and a half ago that
ends as soon as we get off of these computers. We had a list of words (which
aren't necessarily bad, but we didn't want to say them anymore, so this was just
to make us aware of when we would say them) and whenever we said one of them we
get a tally- and whoever gets the most tallys buys coldstone! We will head there
soon- at first I was winning, but now she is- I think I'm buying!
Are you preparing for General Conference??!?!?? We are so excited here. I
am so glad that the Lord inspires his chosen servants with words we need today.
I see them working in my life every day. (for more info, go to www.lds.org and look under general conference)
Last night the full moon was out along with the Northern lights- I have to
say- it is interesting that the days are light and the nights are dark again,
but right now i am just enjoying it until that changes to being dark for most of
the day.
Heavenly Father has really been blessing us with some potential people who
want to hear the Gospel. I have noticed that this is the harvest of seeds that
have been planted by various people that we are recognizing. One man gave us a
call one night and said that he had read the book of Mormon and knew that it was
true and wanted to learn more. He sounded so happy and ecstatic. i had never met
him before, but the missionaries had invited him a time back to do so and he
accepted. Another woman is welcoming and had been tracted into and wants to read
it. We also have noticed a woman who is less active wants her children baptized
and is coming back because her neighbor invited her and she is excited about it
although other obstacles lie in her path. We also went over to a members home
and her sons girlfriend was visiting and wanted to know more about the church-
she asks this sister questions and then she began to ask us and where she was in
process of moving to Homer she asked for the missionaries number and took down
the times for general conference and accepted a Book of Mormon. We are excited
for her ( she also showed us a new crochet stitch that she gave me one of her
headbands so i could learn to do that one day- it was so nice of her-it is
called the crocodile stitch). Either way, I have been noticing a pattern of
seeking recently that has been apparent in many aspects. The Gospel is meant to
bring happiness- to make bad people good, and good people better- to improve and
to remember that it is because of our Savior that we are able to do so.
Opposition comes to all those who have already decided to follow their Heavenly
Father (for example, Nephi- 1 Nephi 3:7 "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.")-- as we follow and make those difficult
decisions, he strengthens and fortifies us.
It is interesting as I read this morning in 1 Nephi to recognize the
conversion to the Lord of Lehi (1 Nephi 1), Nephi (1 Nephi 2:16-17), Sam (1
Nephi 2:18), and Sariah (1 Nephi 4:7-8). It is all by the Power of the Holy
Ghost, as we can receive it as well. Even Laman and Lemuel received that
confirmation, but they did not honor it in the end. It must have grieved their
father, and also their father in Heaven to have seen that turning away and to
have felt that persecution and I can imagine Lehi, in 1 Nephi 2:11-15 and as he
"dwelt in a tent" I can just see the sorrow he must have felt, even enough to go
into the tent and take that time for himself.
Well, the work is wonderful, as always-- never easy, but it is always worth
it. Love you all!
Love,
Sister Wuehler
ism: Termination Dust- otherwise known as snow, which we got our first of this last week, earlier than expected.
Scriptures:
Alma 26:7
But behold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the aharvest, and they are his; and he will braise them up at the last day.Moroni 7:13,19, 22, 25, 26, 33, 37 (lay hold upon every good thing)
13 But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do agood continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and benticeth to do cgood, and to love God, and to serve him, is dinspired of God.
19 Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the alight of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a bchild of Christ.
22 For behold, God aknowing all things, being from beverlasting to everlasting, behold, he sent cangels to minister unto the children of men, to make manifest concerning the coming of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good thing.
25 Wherefore, by the ministering of aangels, and by every word which proceeded forth out of the mouth of God, men began to exercise faith in Christ; and thus by faith, they did lay hold upon every good thing; and thus it was until the coming of Christ.
26 And after that he came men also were asaved by faith in his name; and by faith, they become the bsons of God. And as surely as Christ liveth he spake these words unto our fathers, saying: cWhatsoever thing ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is good, in faith believing that ye shall receive, behold, it shall be done unto you.
1 Nephi 3:7
"I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."
Some of the funny billboards we have seen:
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