Is It Really March??

Hello Hello Hello!

How is everyone doing? Oh man the time is just flying by. I feel like I literally just emailing yesterday. I don't know if missionary time is exceptionally fast or what but I can't believe it. This was a pretty good week. We have seen so many miracles and my testimony of prayer, exact obedience and patience have really grown a lot this week! We have also had a lot of laughs. Training a new missionary really does try you but it's such a great experience because I have been able to feel the reality of Heavenly Father's helping hand in all things as I rely on him more and more through prayer and fasting. I can't even describe how much I love being a missionary. It is the very best thing I have ever done in my life and I know the things I have done the last 7 months have changed me into such a better person and will affect everything in my future for the positive. I have learned SO MUCH! This week I will just copy and paste part of my letter to the mission president because I'm a little short on time.: "The Lord has shown us a lot of miracles this week and we were able to find some amazing new investigators. I think my testimony has really grown on trying to be more exactly obedient. One thing I noticed this week was that as we strived to be exactly obedient to the schedule (especially eating 5-6 dinner) the Lord provided so many opportunities to find new investigators and families! I know that these people truly are a blessing because if we had not been actively trying to following the dinner 5-6 rule, we would not have found then because they are only home the other times! ah It was so cool. Testimony strengthened talaga. Another really amazing thing I learned this week was the reality of the power of prayer. I think sometimes I forget how powerful our prayers really are and I miss out on the blessings of prayer because I'm not as sincere as I should be. This week, one night we were working with a member and I felt so overwhelmed because we had so many appointments and things to do but everything was just falling apart and my Tagalog seemed to be completely caught on my tongue and so hard. I felt like I couldn't deal with everything so I asked if we could stop and pray off to the side of the road. I prayed for help and courage and the strength to do what he wanted us to do and for the spirit to lead us where to go. After that I strongly felt the Lord strengthening me and my mind was clear about what we should do. I thought of a family who was less active who Sister Mccoard and I used to teach when I was in training. I knew the mom was not a fan of the missionaries and had told her kids to ask us to not come back before. But this voice kept telling me to go to them. So we headed there and I saw the little girl outside. I asked if her mom were home and she said yes and I asked if I could talk to her. We ended up talking to her mom and she invited us all into their home. Even though she was so tired and preparing to leave for manila for work in the morning, she talked to us for a while and let us share a message with her and the family. It was totally by the spirit because we hadn't planned for them but I felt prompted to share about the atonement and it was such a great lesson. The spirit was so strong and the mom really opened up to us about the problems she was having and her desire to come back into the church. She said normally she didn't like the missionaries coming before but that night she felt she should let us in and she thanked us for our message and for bringing the spirit in her home again. It was such a neat experience for me to see that if I will simply seek the Lord's guidance and follow his will, he will make sure we are where we need to be with his children who need us the very most at that time. "

I love you all very much! Take care! Thank you so much, I love hearing all about your lives and experiences. One thing I really love doing in lessons is sharing powerful real life experiences about the principles of the gospel. If you have any personally experiences about prayer, gospel blessing family, repentance, feeling god's love, or anything like that I would love to read about them! I will share them with my investigators and less active members who may be struggling with those same things! I know that as we share our testimonies about Christ and his gospel, that testimony grows and the Lord gives us ever more wonderful experiences! So even if you don't tell me, this week I challenge you all to share your testimony of something in the gospel to someone. It doesn't have to be some big awkward thing. Just share. I know the Lord will bless your life and theirs for it. 

Mahal ko kayo lahat!

Sister Turner:)