"Not today Satan!"

Hello Y'all!!

Ok... First thing is first! Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill!!!! Love you guys!!! And welcome to the family Jason!! 

Ok, so I will explain my subject. So whenever something hard happens or something goes wrong, Sister Allen and I say, "Not today Satan!!" And keep moving on! It's actually quite helpful!

So in our studies this week we were reading in Ether and I think it is amazing the faith and courage that the Brother of Jared had! One thing that I learned from this weeks reading is just to ask. I think that a lot of times we forget that we can just ask the Lord for things and He will give it to us. Just like in 3 Nephi 18:20 it reads, "20 And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you." I have a strong testimony of that! All we need to do is act and ask and it will be given to us!

This week we were able to do a lot of looking and we hope it leads to some finding soon! Of course it is all in the Lord's timing and this is His work. The night before we go out and work, we try and pray and ask God of where we should go or who to see the next day. We prayed and a few streets came to mind so the next day we went out and started tracting them! It was really amazing to see how God puts people into our path and lines everything up perfectly. While we were walking (also another blessing, it was warm enough to go tracting) we saw these 2 men outside working on their car and went up and started talking to them. Turns out, this man's wife had been taking the lessons before and almost go baptized AND we were just talking about her the day before because we found her in the Area Book when we were moving records from paper to the phone! We were talking with him for a little and his member daughter ended up pulling up while we were talking with him AND the former investigator came out! God's timing is so cool! We were not able to teach them but I know that that happened for a reason and the only reason that happened was through listening to the spirit!

Another miracle that happened this weekend was because of the spirit again! I am so glad we do not have to do this work alone! We were trying to figure out if we should go try and contact an investigator we had not seen in awhile due to illness and family problems and the spirit said yes. We went over there and had a great visit with them and they came to church! Heavenly Father is so good! And we were able to get a new investigator out of that because they brought their granddaughter who we actually had been able to teach before at our recent converts house! 

Also, I am excited because I wanted to work on the Christlike attributes in chapter 6 of Preach my Gospel and I figured it out that I can work one per transfer for the rest of my mission! So I am super excited about that! The one I am working on right now is diligence! I will keep you updated on how that goes!

Thank you all for the love and support that you give me! I know that this church is true and that this is God's church on the earth today!! The Book of Mormon is the word of God! I am so grateful for the time that I have to be a missionary and how my testimony has grown so much in these past short 6 months! I love you all and have a great, safe week!

Love,

Sister Lacey