Dear Mom,
I am being transferred somewhere
outside of the Cleveland Stake. I have no idea where I am headed, but you will
all find out next week probably. Sister
Kunz will be staying here waiting for someone else to come in and join her, and
continue to build up this place of miracles.
We have had a really awesome week! I love
General Conference because we always see miracles as missionaries. We saw
exactly what you saw, with the voice over language thing. I loved the talk by
Elder Jorg Klebingat. I don't know that it could have been said more plainly. I
consequences. Another theme I saw was
the need for our own personal
conversion. Everyone emphasized the
need to continually strengthen
and fortify ourselves not just for
what is to come in the future, but
what is happening all around us right
now. Prayer, scripture study,
family home evening, and temple
attendance are so crucial. I also
loved Elder Anderson's quote about
how spiritual questions deserve
spiritual answers. If we really must
know something, we have to ask
God directly, and seek His word for
our answers.
I love serving in this ward. We have
seen success in different ways
than what I saw in St. Marys or in
Alliance. We have seen individuals
change in ways that no one has yet
seen before. On Sunday, we received a surprise phone call from Bishop G to
thank us for helping a
particular sister in our ward. We
have also worked really hard to see
miracles in finding. It is really
hard to find the way that Elder Teh
was talking about, but that is how
Sister Kunz and I have been
primarily working for the last two
transfers. We are finally starting
to see some of the fruits of our
finding efforts. Just last night we
had one of the most incredible
lessons with our new investigator,
C. She has been taught by the missionaries before,
and has a great relationship with many of the people in our ward already. She
knows that she needs something that we have to offer
because she feels the presence of the
Holy Ghost when she talks with
us or thinks about this. She is
willing to work and pray about it.
Last night, Sister Kunz and I pretty
much taught her all of the 5
lessons out of preach my gospel. Not
because we had planned that, but
because her questions lead to
everything we teach as missionaries. She
understood it all very well, and even
seemed to answer her own
questions about some older practices
in the church and was able to
accept it. She is willing to pray to
come to know if Christ really is
the Messiah and Savior, which she has
never had a testimony of before.
It was an incredible lesson!
There are so many wonderful things
happening here, and I can't wait to
see where else I am called to be
apart of different miracles. I know
the atonement is real, and that we
have the power to change. I know
that there is such a thing as peace
of conscious, and that we can have
confidence in our eternal salvation.
I love this gospel, and I love
being a missionary!
I love you!
Love,
Sister Bakker
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