Christlike Attributes

Once again this week has flown by so fast!! But it has been a fabulous week! This week we were able to find a ton of new investigators so we are super excited so see the progress with them! But nothing too crazy this week just lots of new people ha!

Update on José Fernando for those who have been following. We went to visit him several times this week but we never found him home. So on Friday we were finally able to visit him. And after a long good discussion with him, he decided that the church of Jesus Christ just wasn’t for him. So he will not be baptized this weekend. But on the bright side..... Lots of new investigators!!!!!

This week we focused a lot on strengthening our recent converts. Being born in the church, sometimes it’s hard for me to really realize what it’s like to be new in the church, but thanks to our converts and my comp, I sure am learning a lot :) We’ve been helping some of our converts re-find their testimonies and help them realize that they really do have a lot of faith and they really do have the strength to take on anything that comes their way. This week has been full of great learning experiences!

This week I have focused my studies a lot on the attributes of Christ. Sometimes I just get so caught up in the work that I don’t take the time to really see if I am really displaying that I am a representative of Jesus Christ. But it’s amazing to see what a little bit of studying can really do! Through my studies I have really come to love my Savior more. He is the perfect example for every one of us. This week I started out with studying about love and charity. Everything that Christ did, he did it out of love. He really loved every single person. And we should be the same. We should love every single person, despite their weaknesses. And once we learn to love everyone and be charitable, then we are able to work a little bit more on the other attributes of Christ. It’s something that we should always be working on. But by focusing on this every day we feel the spirit more and we truly are happier. I am so eternally grateful for my Savior and all of the amazing things I can learn from him.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful week this week! I would like to challenge you all to study a little bit about our Savior this week and think of ways you all can become more like him! I love you! And always remember, the Church is true!!!

Love
Sister Steadman

Weekly Update

Well another week has flown by! I can’t believe it’s Monday already! But here’s a little bit about this week :)

First off, our investigator José Fernando. Hess been really struggling to find an answer. So this week we really focused on the Holy Ghost and praying. So we marked Moroni 10 for him to read. When we arrived in the visit he said he had read and we were super happy! Then he went on talking about how people ate each other and i was like what?!?! Haha. We were so confused! Then I tried to remember all the war stories but all I could remember is when they would leave the bodies in the desert and the animals would eat the bodies. So we tried explaining that to him but he wasn’t satisfied. So then the three of us did a scripture search. And finally he found where he had read. Well when he went to read, he read Moroni 9:10..... Which says:

"And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery."

So then we went on to explain how the BOM teaches us things we should do and that we should not do... haha. So we went back to talking about feeling the spirit and receiving answers and he says he feels good every time he reads and prays. But now he is struggling to understand why he needs to be baptized again. So that is our challenge this week. To help him understand why he needs to be baptized again.

We spent a lot of this week contacting people and trying to find some new investigators. We found some really awesome people! One afternoon as we were teaching seminary, a woman walked in the church. So Sister Costancio talked to her as I continued to the give the lesson. And turns out that her "husband" knew the church when he was a kid but wasn’t too interested. But then she saw the plaque and saw that we teach English and she got super excited. So we went and visited her and her husband this week and we were super happy! So he knew the church when he had about 12 years. But he wasn’t too interested. But now he is really wanting to learn more and be baptized!!! Yay!!! But we’ve got a few things we’ve got do to do help him out first, like marriage and the word of wisdom. But at least he is willing to change! So we will see how things go this week :)

Well that’s it for about this week! I hope you have all had a wonderful week and I hope that this next week is even better! Keep reading the scriptures and saying your prayers :)

Love you all!
Sister Steadman

11 Months Down

Well as of today, my companion and I have officially completed 11 months! So crazy!!!! We are still trying to wrap our minds around the fact. But, time sure does pass by quickly.

But this week was good! Our focus this past week was to either mark a date for baptism with our investigators or drop them. And basically all of them got dropped, ha. But we have found some new investigators that I am super excited about! 

First off we have an investigator named Mabia. She is so funny! She’s this little lady who is probably 45 but she is so full of energy! I love it! This week we taught her a couple of times and she was reading the Book of Mormon and was praying as well. Yesterday we went and visited her with a member and we were just checking up to see if she was still reading a praying and she said she had been reading. So she pulled out her Book of Mormon and she opened to Mosiah 25 and told us that she had read until there. At first I did not believe it. Never before had I had an investigator that had read that much. So we asked her to explain to us what she had read. So she went off talking about the Lamanites and King Benjamin and the government..... We were AMAZED!!! I was so excited! So we also asked her if she had prayed to know if the things that we have taught her are true and she said she had prayed and knows that it is all true! So we were super excited! We just haven’t marked a date with her yet because she has to get married and stop smoking.... but we are getting there :) 

We also have another investigator, José Fernando, who was in church yesterday which was also another surprise :) He is catholic, but the catholic that never goes to church, ha. So we’ve have been explaining a lot to him the importance of having the priesthood. He seems to be understanding it all very well. We were able to mark a date with him for June 6th. And he said if he knows it’s all true, he will be baptized. So we are praying like crazy, ha! 

Last Monday, one of our members finally got married!!!! We had been waiting sooo long for her to get married! So now she will be able to help out a lot more in our group! 

Well that’s about it for this week! Remember to always read your scriptures and say your prayers! Love you all!

Sister Steadman