October 7, 2014

October 7, 2014

Hey yall!!!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So... Let's see...

JAVIER WAS BAUPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He and his wife Brenda were married in the church. Just a small little thing with a member that is a lawyer. Then we had the bauptism and confirmation!!!! SO MANY of the members from the ward came!!! It was something so small and so simple, but SO SPECIAL and extraordinary!!!! I know that the Heavens were rejoicing!!!!! And Hna. Graham and I are SO THANKFUL to finally have a bauptism together after ALOT of fun weeks of

work!!! The Lord really does Bless us for our labors!!! First He gives us the strength to do the labors and then He Blesses us for the efforts we give in using that strength!!!! I know that this is His work, after every bauptism I really feel like I did nothing, that it was all just the Strength of the Lord and I know that that is true. Compared to the Strength of the Lord we are nothing, but to the Lord we are EVERYTHING!!!!

I am just SO THANKFUL for all the miracles I get to see each day being out

here on the front lines of the battles of Salvation!!!! I know the Lord

LOVES and protects EACH and EVERY ONE of His Missionaries, especially those

Missionaries who don't have just a plaque on the outside, but one that is

written on the Heart by the Spirit and that I know can be each and every

one of us, full time Missionary or not!!!

So Blanca is doing well!!!! She came to the wedding, bauptism and

confirmation of Javier!!! Brenda invited her!!! We hadn't even called her

yet, being so busy as always. And when we called to see if she could come

she said, "Yes! I really want to go! Because Brenda invited me when I saw

her at the kid's school today!" It was AWESOME!!!! It is SO MUCH better

when the invitation comes from a member, a friend and not just the

Missionaries alone!!! She came and it was WONDERFUL!!!!! Because she is

having a hard time recognizing her answer from the Spirit that this is the

true church. She grew up with parents who are pastors of a Evangelical church.

She is used to singing, clapping standing up and shouting at church and she

had the question of why church is quiet and as she put it, boring? Well,

this activity was the perfect thing to show her that we do have fun!!!!

There was dancing and everything afterward!! We didn't stay for that part,

but she told us later on the phone that her girls had been dancing and they

LOVED it!!!!! Then MIRACLE!!!! She couldn't come to either of the conference

sessions Saturday, but she was suppose to come Sunday morning. Well we were

waiting and waiting and she never showed up. I called her after the session

and she said she was really sorry, someone came over and she couldn't leave,

but that she was coming to the afternoon session. Well she ended up coming

in late not until 3:00p.m. But it was SO COOL, because she was watching it

with us in another room because we were watching in English because she

wanted to in English too, and she was there for the last talk by Elder

Bednar!!! PERFECT!!!! When he addressed at the beginning that this talk was

for all those who are not members of the church, you should of seen her

face, it was GREAT!!!! She certainly paid attention!!!! So if y'all could

please pray for her that she will receive an answer that would be

GREAT!!!!! We are going to teach her today in the house of Javier and

Brenda and we are going to try to put a date for her bauptism, for this

weekend!!!

So all is going well with Natali!!! She is preparing for this weekend!!!! Just

please keep praying hard for her and her family!!!!

And well I have a new name to add to the list today, I had wanted to

mention her before and I am not sure if I did... We are teaching this young

single mother of 4 kids, 3 girls ages 6, 5 and 4 and a little boy that is

only 3 months old. She has had a rough time and experience with guys in her

life. Her first husband she married when she was 18 beat her, so they

divorced. Then her second husband, the dad of the 3 girls passed away. And

then the dad of the little baby didn't mention until she was pregnant that

he is already married. She is one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL souls, daughters of God I have had the pleasure of meeting on my Mission!!!! We had a lesson, SO BEAUTIFUL with her yesterday, the Spirit was SO STRONG!!!! Like up there with my first

lesson I ever had with Sandra - strong!!! It was sadly interrupted by her

deceased husband's dad who entered the house and told us to get out. He said

some pretty bad things. I don't know what they were, I just know they were

bad because the Spirit stopped translating. But it is okay, we are going to visit

with her again today. She was really thankful for our visit and really

upset at the way he was talking to us. She apologized for him. But the cool

thing is, I didn't even feel discouraged by his words. I felt thankful that

we could be rejected, because it is moments like that that you really feel

who you are, what your purpose is as a Missionary and who you truly

represent. I know I am a Personal Representative of Jesus Christ. He too

was rejected, banished, yelled out and spat at. I am thankful that the Lord

gives us strength to face that in His name!!!! We are strong in Him!!!! We

are His, His disciples!!! And NOTHING can stop this work from going

forward!!!! So if y'all could please pray for her and her children that

would be GREAT!!!! It would be nice if you could take her name to the temple

to Mom!!!! We are hoping her father in law is really a King Lamoni's dad

situation and that he will have a change of heart!!! It is cool to feel

like I am working on being up there with the Book of Mormon Missionaries!!!!!

Well I know the Gospel is true!!!! I testify Christ lives and LOVES us!!!

That we can all return to our Heavenly Father if we follow him!!!! I gotta

go!!!!!! LOVE YOUALLL!~!!!!!!! Thanks for EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Tarah Ray Sherrod