Well hello there everybody who is not in the amazing
country of Canada!! :) Ok...that came out wrong...hello everybody :) I hope all
is well with you guys! I love you all and pray for you often!!
Well, what a week. I suppose I should start with how
AWESOME General Conferece was!!!!! What a blessing it is to be able to hear from
these incredible men twice a year!! My heart aches knowing that not everybody
watches it or will watch it. I wish that that was the ONLY thing on tv at the
time!! We watched it down at the church since Canada cannot get it on tv. It was
so awesome...and guess what? Noreen came and watched!!!! For about 5 years
missionaries have been trying to get her to come to the church. And she finally
came! Hooray!!!! We are meeting with her after this to see how she liked it. I
certainly hope she was able to get an answer about the Book of Mormon.
I could go on and on about specific talks that I liked
and different thigns, but that would just take up my entire email time! :) So I
guess I will just mention Elder Scott's talk and how much that impacted me.
Isn't it awesome how different talks affect different people in different ways?
Fascinating :) I had quite a few questions going into conference that I was
trying to get answers to. Well, Elder Scott happened to answer almost all of
them! He gave me so much comfort and strength just listening to him. How
grateful I am for modern day Apostles and Prophets!!!
So Sister Okano and I are trying something new that has
taken a lot of faith. We are teaching quite a few people at this time, and we
are very grateful for it. However, we are starting to realize that maybe we are
teaching some people who are not necessarily truth seekers. If we were to not
spend that time teaching them, then we would be able to have more time finding
others who ARE truth seekers. Well, we thought that the best way to do this
would be to be BOLD! SO we have been. We are bringing up baptism in every single
lesson, which makes it very simple for us to be able to find out through the
Spirit who are truth seekers and who are not. Yesterday Sister Okano was able to
be very bold with one of our investigators. She said "Patt, The Church of Jesus
Christ Of Latter-Day Saints is the only church on earth with the same Priesthood
authority that Jesus Christ had". Wow! Talk about following the Spirit! Although
Patt disagreed, we were able to decipher through some of the things she said and
we felt very strongly that we should put her in a reflecting pool. Later in the
lesson she gave us the name of her son who lives in Ontario, and told us he was
searching for truth at this time. So perhaps we were led to Patt just to get her
son's name so we could send missionaries there! How interesting how the Lord
works!
We visited Amanda again yesterday. Guess what? She
hasn't smoked in over a month!!! She is doing so amazing! AND she said she
talked to her boss and convinced her to hire another staff member so that she
could have Sundays off and come to church. UM....what just happened? Oh, a
miracle. That's right. The Lord is so amazing! The truth of the Gospel has such
an impact on people when they embrace its teachings!! I am so excited for
her!!!
We met up with a farmer, Allen last week. We were kind
of nervous because we have asked him a few times to meet with us, but he keeps
declining. The Spirit told us to keep trying, so we did. Finally he set up an
appointment. We get there and he is this huge first nations man with tatoos
everywhere and a lot of peircings. I will admit, I was a little nervous. But oh
how grateful I am for what the Spirit can do for us! He was probably the most
humble man I have ever spoken to. He has 4 children, all of which he loves so
dearly. The way he talks about them melts my heart everytime I think about it. I
was able to get just a small glimpse of how Heavenly Father felt about him. I
felt such a DEEP love for him when we left. I didn't want to leave because I
just wanted to stay there and continue talking to him. He thoroughly enjoyed
speaking with us and asked us to come back and teach him more about the church.
Gladly!! It just goes to show that prejudgements never do any good. I didn't
know I could have such an instant love for somebody in that manner, but the Lord
can do all things. We are meeting with him again
tomorrow!!
I just wish I could tell each of you every single thing
that I experience throughout the week. But unfortunately, time does not allow. I
just want each of you who are mission age to take this into consideration as you
prepare or consider going on a mission. I have one piece of advice for you -
GO!!! That's all. I hope that is clear enough for you. Please go on a mission if
you are thinking about it. The Lord so desperately needs people to spread His
Gospel. And He blesses you in incredible ways if we do so in this capacity.
I love how much my mission has taught me to be selfless. I did not realize
before my mission how selfish I was! I prayed for myself constantly without
thinking of others. Sometimes now I forget to pray for myself, besides repenting
for all the dumb things I have done :) It is incredible to be able to be so
devoted to helping others. I am SO worried about so many other people that I
just want Heavenly Father to help them!! I realize I certainly need His help to
teach them though. But I love having my prayers focused entirely on other
people. I feel like I get so much more out of them!!! What a
blessing!!
The challenge for this week is this - I challenge each
of you to watch or read at least 3 general conference talks this week. I also
challenge you to keep this up until next conference comes!! Before my mission, I
was able to listen to conference on my iPhone all throughout work. That is 8
hours of conference a day, and I could not be happier about it. I can honestly
say that that is one of the reasons I am here on a mission. We need to take
advantage of this incredible technology the Lord has provided for
us.
Well, I love each of you ever so much. I think of each
of you often and hope that all is going well wherever you are at this point in
your life. This Gospel is true. Jesus Christ's Gospel HAS been restored on the
earth through a living prophet, and will never again be taken away. I hope and
pray that each of you will do your part to come to this same knowledge. I love
you, and I will talk to you next week!!
Love,
Sister Biggs
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