A week of Miracles!

Checking to see if the cows are pregnant :-0

Potato day!

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone's week was great! Mine was fantastic!

So this week I was able to get a little "cultured"! On Saturday we had our annual Stake Potato day! A huge semi-truck full of potatoes comes to our church parking lot and we give out bags and boxes of potatoes for free! It was awesome and I am pretty sure it is only in Idaho ;) Another thing we were able to do is pregnant check cows... That's right pregnant check them! It was pretty gross but it was an awesome experience! (Please excuse my face in the picture haha you can't judge till you try it)

I was able to have my first ever Zone Conference in the mission field and it was fantastic! I loved every minute of it and my testimony grew so much! The only bad thing about Zone Conference is that my comp and I left our warm jackets in Rexburg.... that is 2 1/2 hours away from where we live.... Good thing though is that we are going to Idaho Falls this week for a Sisters Conference so we do not have to be too cold for too long.

On Wednesday we decided that we needed to fast for a stronger testimony of Joseph Smith and to be able to find those who need to learn about him. On that day we were trying to find a family (we do not know where they live) so we decided to pray and look at the map and go to a street that we felt inspired to go to. We went to that street and started to knock on houses that we felt like the spirit wanted us to knock on. After knocking on 3 houses we saw a man outside of his house so we decided to go talk to him. We learned that his brother is a convert to the church and that he does not believe that the Book of Mormon is necessary. We then started to teach and discuss with him about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. It was amazing because both of us were able to testify boldly of Joseph Smith to him and feel the spirit so strong! My testimony of Joseph Smith grew so much during that conversation with him! Even though he was anti towards the church and he was not too open to it, he still let us give him a Book of Mormon. Another miracle we saw with him is that while we were talking with him we realized that his convert brother is in one of our wards, and that we were going over to his house that night for dinner with him and his family. We have never been able to have dinner with them before! It was all meant to be!

We were able to see many more mini miracles this week. I will just name a few. There is a couple that we were able to start teaching this week and they seem ready for the gospel. They were taught a year ago and from what we heard they are a lot different now than they were. The Lord is always working with people to help them along the path! Another one we saw is that Heavenly Father is always guiding our path. We were with a recent convert and we were walking down this road and someone pulls over because they know her and we actually have been trying to meet the lady that pulled over for the past few days! It was awesome!

I know that I am able to be apart of God's work on the earth. Just like it says in Moses 1:39 

39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

I am so grateful for my time as a missionary. It is the hardest thing I have ever done but it is the most rewarding and the most promising thing I have ever done! I love you all! I hope you have a great week! Share the gospel with everyone around you! Let them know that there is a way to lasting joy and happiness through our Savior Jesus Christ!

Love,

Sister Lacey