I saw a cow being born!!

Momma and baby

I think the elders hit a raccoon

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Hello Everyone!!

I hope you all had a fantastic week! Ours was so good! I love being a missionary so much! And yes... I say a cow being born this week! It was so crazy. The stake president and his son even had to pull it out because it was a big one haha I will see if I can send the video!

So this week I was having a few difficult days. My head keeps getting to me and just start being to hard on myself and thinking I'm not doing good enough to see success. Luckily I have an amazing companion and she helps me when I am down. It's nice just being able to talk to someone and them helping you through the hard times. Another big factor is prayer. Heavenly Father has helped me so much! I was having a thought to get a priesthood blessing but I was pushing it away because I am stubborn. Anyways, I got a blessing from Elder Allebes (my district leader) and it was actually really cool experience! This past week we have had the opportunity to testify of the Priesthood and teach others about it so my testimony of it has grown! When I got my blessing I realized that we literally have God's power and authority on the Earth and we can receive council from Him. I know that that blessing was from Him and that I shouldn't be hard on myself and as long as we do the best that we can then that is all we can do! So long story short, the Priesthood is such an amazing gift!

So we have an investigator and she came to church! We were hoping that her and her husband would come but he was sick. What was really cool, when we have come before to their house. Her husband was pretty cold to us but this last time he really started to soften up! When we had to leave he said, "but it was just starting to get good!" I am excited to see him soften more and more and hopefully come to church with his wife! When his wife was at church she even said at church, "Yeah, I was thinking about just going to my church but I know that God wanted me here today". That was a miracle that she said that! 

Another miracle we saw was with our investigator who is 13 years old. So she has been on date to be baptized and when we went over to her house to teach her a lesson she wanted to move her date to be baptized closer! I have never had that happen before and it was a tender mercy from the Lord to be a witness of that!

So our district have been trying to reach certain goals of how many people we talk to and how many Books of Mormon we pass out in a week and it has been awesome seeing how that helps our door approaches! We have to testify to someone in order for it to count so it has helped us to start testifying right away when we meet someone. On Saturday night Sister Hulme and I went tracking and we were able to talk to 20 new people, pass out 4 Books of Mormon and got 2 new investigators! It was an amazing night! We got some return appointments as well and hope they turn into new investigators!

So one of our investigators who was on date moved to Nebraska. It was awesome to have technology though because with our last lesson with her we were able to skype in her new missionaries in Nebraska. Hopefully that helped her have a smoother transition to her new home.

Missionary work is the best and I am so grateful that I get to serve here in Idaho! I know that Jesus Christ church has been restored again on the earth and that this is His church! I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Lacey