"I will be what I Believe"

Hello Everyone!!

First off, I am so sorry that I have not written a weekly email the past few weeks. The past few P-days have been busy! 

Anyways, the past few weeks have had their share of ups and downs but we just have to trust in God and know that He is there for us every step of the way and is ALWAYS helping us! That is something that I have learned, God will never leave us alone! Especially when we need Him the most!

So last week, as a district, we were able to go to the Rexburg temple as a district and it was amazing! The spirit in the temple is like no other place on earth! Heavenly Father actually gave me a tender mercy while I was in the temple. I was in the temple and I was missing my dad. There was this lady that was in the temple and  she saw my last name and asked if I was a college student and I told her I was a missionary. She said that she new people from Southern California and I said that's where I was from. She then asked me if my dad was Marc!! I was like "YES!!" She said that she was the Stake young women's President in Covina when my dad got baptized when he was 16!!! It was such a tender mercy to meet someone who knows my dad! 

We had an amazing lesson with one of our investigators who wants to be baptized. We have not been able to meet with him for a few weeks but then we were able to this week and it was amazing! He is so excited about the gospel and learning more! He asks so many great questions and goes and buys new study materials all of the time! It is so cool to witness people who are so excited about learning more about Jesus Christ's church!

Last night we had a lesson with 2 young boys about the Plan of Salvation and they were engaged and learned so quickly. Lately, we have been encouraged to work with youth more so we have been going into the Young Men's, Young Women's and Primary a lot and I love it! I understand why in the scriptures it talks about us becoming like little children! They have such strong faith! So to explain my title of this email... I was having a rough weekend of the adversary just telling me that I wasn't a good missionary and I was just being too hard on myself. On Sunday, it was just amazing the love that I felt when I came to church. All of the members were so kind and asking us how we are doing and then we walked by the Primary room and they were singing, "I will be what I believe!" and it was another tender mercy from Heavenly Father! I love that song! If you have not heard it, you should go look it up! I love those little moments when you know that God is there for you not matter what!

We had another really amazing lesson with another one of our investigators and he said that he thinks that his wife sent sister missionaries to this area because he can't say no to sisters :) he is progressing well and I love him! 

I love how easily it is to love people when you truly get to know them and serve them! We were able to do a lot of service this week and I love it! It helps remind me that we are sent here to be the Lord's representatives and we need to do the things that He would do! I love all of you and hope that you all have a great week!

Love,

Sister Lacey