Winslow Week Seventeen

Hello, friends!! This week just disappeared!! What's going on??

I had exchanges in Joseph City with a new sister, Sister Mahina, which was SO fun. She is a great sister! We got to have a lesson with someone who's getting baptized this Saturday and it was so great. His wife is already a member and their whole family is just doing amazing things and they're all so excited and it got me excited too! The gospel is so good!!

Honestly this week was such a blur though because it went by so fast!! One highlight was that we started teaching someone new named Kathy and Sister Clement BLEW MY MIND because she invited her to be baptized right then and there (our first lesson). That's the 3rd time she's done that though so I don't know why I'm even surprised. We are currently teaching 6 people and 5 of them are on date to be baptized. Sister Clement is just AMAZING because she's so bold and SO loving so it totally works. She boldly invites people to change their lives and and they accept because they feel her love and they know whatever she invites them to do will be for their benefit. She's amazing! Don't know how I lucked out so much to have her!! I know Winslow will be in great hands when I leave. :)

Like I said though, this week was a blur. We worked hard and saw miracles and laughed and cried a little too and it was just a good normal week as a missionary. I love being out here. Life is so good!!

In my studies the other day, I read Ether 6 in the Book of Mormon and let me just tell you. I LOVE THIS STORY!! Every single time I read it I learn something new. It's amazing. The Jaredites in this story just show so much faith. The Lord leads them out of their homeland with the promise to bring them somewhere better, but they have to cross an OCEAN to get there. So they build this barges that have no windows and are "tight like unto a dish" and then just jump into the ocean with the faith that God will get them safely to land. I love the wording it uses for this part when they get in the barges. It says they, "set forth into the sea, commending themselves to unto the Lord their God." How powerful is that? How can we follow their example? Sometimes the Lord asks us to leave behind things we know and leave behind places we're comfortable and has us jump into the ocean in a barge without windows, but if we have the faith to just put ourselves into His hands, He will lead us somewhere infinitely better than where we were before. We got to teach seminary on Friday and the section we covered was Doctrine and Covenants 111. In the last verse of that section, the Lord tells His people, "I will order all things for your good." He is arranging everything just right in our lives so that as long as we follow Him, we will be guided to the very best things. Not the easiest things, the things that will be best for us. The things that will get us to where we need to be and help us become the people we need to be. I am so grateful that that knowledge!!

God is so good--don't ever forget it!

Love,
Sister Bohman