Dear Family and Friends,
We started out the week last p-day with soccer with the sun high in the sky- later that night it poured if I remember right. There have been fires all over and right now there is a big one down Chena Hot Springs road that is far out but you can see the smoke.
We had a good experience this week with a sister who needed to talk to us during FHE. We walked in o the building and sat down for a moment and she came up to us and you could tell she was crying. She said, "Sisters I need to talk to you and you are going to listen and give me advice." Seeing as recently she's made some huge changes in her life and just needed to have someone there to listen made it really neat that we planned to go to FHE because we don't normally go and were just outside waiting for the lesson to end when she came out. It's awesome to see the effect of the spirit as the day is planned.
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| Me, Sister Claspell, Sister Burbank, and Sister Hart |
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| Sister Hart and Me |
We picked up Sister Claspell and Sister Burbank at the airport for exchanges after FHE and had them with us for the next day. We also got to sand and paint a house for a family who is trying to sell their house soon; and later that night there was a family who needed to move a 2000 lb shed that we had all the missionaries who could come go to that. The mosquitos were everywhere but the Elders picked up the shed and carried across the yard as the Sisters took the cinder blocks as fast as we could to stack them up. Sis. Claspell got to tell me about an experience she had last time we went on exchanges--Back when she was in Beach Lake about 6 or so months ago. We had planned for that day to visit some people, but decided one of the best uses of our time would be to sticky note some people and families doors. So in talking about who we would bring these notes with scriptures and quotes on them, we figured out how many sets we needed to make. We started to put them up and tried to do it anonymously, and most of the time it worked. We had one last set left we had made extra and Sister Claspell talked about this lady who she thought we should put it on her door. So we decided to do that and as we were putting it on her door, she pulled up and found it was us and I got to meet her- and really, how can a red head ever really hide! haha... So she decided later to take those notes and read them the next morning so she could get to sleep. Come to find out she had been going through a lot and that next night something came up that made (it so) she was able to use every one of those scriptures to help her and they've become some of her favorite scriptures! I hadn't heard that so it was exciting to be able to hear her reaction and then hear about the experience she had and that we were able to get those scriptures to her to help her without really knowing that it would be that important right at that time.
On the 4th we delivered brownies to as many people as we could and went to Pioneer Park to see if we could meet some new people. It seemed like all of Fairbanks was there! Weren't able to catch a lot of people that day though, but we kept pushing through to try.
We got permission this week to do studies on Saturday with a couple of our branch missionaries who had asked to be a part of it for the morning. They dressed up like Sister Missionaries and had their own personal study, then joined us in companion study. From there we went to a lesson with (an)investigator who is dating one of the bus drivers and taught her about the plan of salvation and started with the first half- she was way more comfortable this week and seemed to really love the lesson! Really exciting! We had had other lessons cancel for later that day but that made it all worth it to have such a great lesson and to know she could feel the spirit.
We had a branch activity at Chena Lakes out at the edge of North Pole and had a barbeque- we had invited a couple people so we went for our lunch hour. Later as we were there a man came down the river in his boat and hit a sandbar and was beached and couldn't move. A few of the guys from the branch got to go down and help, but it was making progress very slow. We wanted to give him a pass along card but had no way to get it down to him. Later, more guys went down and just as we had to leave we gave one of the pass along cards to one of them heading out to help to give to the man even though we feasibly couldn't.
One thing that has been incredibly clear to me this week is that God uses simple materials to do great things. I don't know how time has gone by so fast but I have seen how he has made me a way he works through to help others, even in the smallest things, I have seen great things. Since I can't see the whole picture, that is why we are always told not to be discouraged. There is not one of us who during the situation can see the end from the beginning, but he knows us so well that he knows what we need, and he knows who we need, and so on. He really does micromanage those details, and he knows the contrasts that can paint the picture that will fit our lives.
To be honest, most of this week has been really really hard, but I have seen a ton of good. Hope this week goes great! Have a good one! Love you!
Love,
Sister Wuehler
Scriptures:
Alma 26:2-4,7,11,16,17,
2 And now, I ask, what great blessings has he bestowed upon us? Can ye tell?
3 Behold, I answer for you; for our brethren, the Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how amany of them are brought to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made binstruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work.
16 Therefore, let us aglory, yea, we will bglory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his cmercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel.
17 Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and apolluted state?
Alma 56:47
47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the aliberty of their bfathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their cmothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
Matthew 13:10-13
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in a parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the a mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
3 Nephi 5:13
13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been acalled of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.
ism: Yesterday we saw a dog that was the size of a football with what sounded like a broken voice box who tried to chase us off and growl at us. i think his bark was worse than his bite but i would Rather not find out.
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