"They just Jack-Rabbited out of there"

Saying goodbye to Sister Gaston :-(

Modeling by an outhouse??

Hello Everyone!

I hope you have had a  wonderful week! Mine has been great!

So I want to explain my caption because if I dont then I'll forget! So it is more Idaho lingo! We were at Bishop's house for dinner and he used the phrase, "They just Jack-Rabbited out of there" and it just means that they took off haha! So I have decided to use this phrase whenever someone bails out on us :) Made up example: "Man we knocked on this one persons door and we could just see them jack-rabbit it out the back porch as soon as they saw that it was the missionaries at their door! 

So church was a tender mercy! A few weeks ago a brother in our ward was not able to speak in Sacrament because of time and because of that he spoke yesterday and it was exactly what I needed!! And really the whole church service is what I needed! Even the chapter that we read all together helped me a lot. What I got out of all of it was that I needed to just trust God and everything will workout! I also was reminded that I need to forget myself and go to work and I know that work is the best antidote for not feeling like a good missionary!

On Tuesday night, Sister Gaston and I were able to have a lesson with this 11 year old. He is the cutest! After we taught him the first lesson we asked him how he felt and he said, "I feel like I felt God's touch tonight". It was so amazing and he is a special little boy!

It was pretty amazing because right before Sister Gaston and I left to go to Idaho Falls on Wednesday we had a lesson with a lady we have been trying to meet with for like a month. We were finally able to meet with her at the church and it such a spiritual last lesson together. She is so prepared and everything we taught she just agreed with and I can tell what we shared helped her with things she is struggling with! Missionary work is the best!!

So on Friday Sister Hulme and I were having a rough day because we could not find anyone to teach and we kept praying and looking at our potentials and nothing was working. It was getting close to dinner time and we saw this young man sitting outside smoking and we just had the thought, "Talk to everyone". So that is what we did. We pulled over and went up to him to say hi and ask him if we could share a message with him and he said yes!! We shared the first lesson with him and he said that when he was younger religion was forced on him so he pushed away from it but now he feels like he wants to know what he believes in! I am excited to see where things go with him!

So we saw some pretty amazing miracles this week! Some of our investigators are doing well and both of them came to all three hours of church was is a big step for them! Also, we met her mom and we could see that there is potential there and we were just waiting for our next visit to ask our investigator about it. Anyways, like 2 weeks ago Sister Gaston and I were driving and she felt like we should knock on this one house and we did but there was no answer. She told me that I should remember that house and go back. Well on Saturday night Sister Hulme and I were driving around and that house popped into my head so we went there and it ended up being our investigators moms house!! I love it when things like that happen! We are going to go visit her and try and teach her!

Sister Hulme is amazing! She is just so ready to work and learn everyday! It was so cool because when we would go up to doors I was thinking in my head that I would do the first few times and then have her start to do it but after like the first one she was ready to go! I am excited to be serving and learning with her! 

I know that this is God's only true church on the earth and that Prophet Russel M. Nelson is called by God to help lead us and guide us in these last days! It was amazing being able to witness President Nelson being called to be the Prophet. As soon as he started talking, I just knew that he is a Prophet of God!

Love,

Sister Lacey