(Sister Cummings)
Hello everyone!! Yet again we are doing our emails on a Tuesday due to our having a zone conference yesterday. As the conference was in Montreal we had chosen to take the metro into the city to save up on kilometres. It was quite a moment when I realized about exactly a year ago this was the only mode of transport that I had had. I am very grateful for the opportunity to have a car now but sometimes in our cars we forget how big the world is. Particularly Montreal. We felt the spirit so strongly as we talked about the Sabbath.
Hello everyone!! Yet again we are doing our emails on a Tuesday due to our having a zone conference yesterday. As the conference was in Montreal we had chosen to take the metro into the city to save up on kilometres. It was quite a moment when I realized about exactly a year ago this was the only mode of transport that I had had. I am very grateful for the opportunity to have a car now but sometimes in our cars we forget how big the world is. Particularly Montreal. We felt the spirit so strongly as we talked about the Sabbath.
It was an important moment in the training where we
discussed the importance of a vision, and how having a vision helps us to fix
goals. Such as when we understand the importance of the sacrament we come to
realize the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy.
I would love to explain more of I learned but I sadly do not
have time to give all the details, but I would love to share the application of
this concept.
This week one of our investigators attended church for the
first time. Vanessa is what most missionaries call golden, but what we in Laval
like to call Soifers. Soif in French means thirsty and when studying how there
are those thirsting after righteousness and truth this frangle phone word was
formed. She has been studying religions for seven years with all branches of
religion. Branching from Muslim even to Jehovahs Witness. Our lessons with her
have been really edifying and miraculous and when she was finally able to
attend church we were so excited. As was she.
After an amazing sacrament meeting and gospel principles
class we took a few minutes before the third hour of church to prepare her for
the combined meeting discussing the soon to be rededicated Montreal Temple. We
gave her a crash course on temples and showed a picture of a couple. When she
saw them she immediately described everyone of them as a white castle where
princes and princesses lived. When we told her that marriages were taken place
there her eyes lit up. The meeting gave an even better lesson on what a temple
was and focused on many aspects of the open house.
After church we met with Vanessa. And one of her first
things she asked was when could she be baptized because she wanted to be able
to enter the temple and receive the blessings from there. Once she realized
that the vision we were helping her have was focused on receiving the covenants
of the temple she immediately wanted to be baptized. We set a baptismal date
and on the way back to our car did a happy dance. This NEVER happens. Well it
never happens by our own works, only by God was this moment able to take place.
I am so happy to be a missionary here and to be able to
teach people of the gospel. Which teaching helps me to learn more of how much
God loves us. My testimony has grown so much and I cannot imagine a life
without my mission. Particularly the principles I am learning from partaking in
this labor of love.
I hope you all have a wonderful week and I ask that you may
keep Vanessa in your prayers that she may be able to be baptized October 10th.
I love you!
Sister Cummings
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