# 69

Dear President,

We had an incredible week this week! So many miracles. Sister B and I have been focusing on finding families and asking referrals from EVERYONE. Literally everyone. We were blessed with answers to our prayers this week. Many of our ward members, including our Bishop and members we have been working with for a long time, introduced us to many of their friends who want to be baptized. We were able to invite them to church and to meet with them and pick them up as investigators. A few have met with the missionaries before, but just decided now that they want to be baptized. It was truly a blessing and a faith builder to me. I think we picked up 6 new investigators this week and have a few uncontacted referrals that we are trying to meet with. Many members have offered their homes to meet in too.  We are excited to begin teaching these new investigators and to give them baptismal dates. 

We've been working with a grandmother of a member family. They are hopefully going to be baptized together on Auguest 26th to complete a family. The grandma is a little worried if she'll make it because of her health, but Sister B's story of the grandma who got baptized with three priesthood holders really reassured our investigator that it will be okay!

We are also working on the mother whose girls are in Georgia. She has potential to be baptized whenever she decides, we're just waiting on her decision. We don't want to force her, so we've been just talking about the blessings of baptism so she comes to a decision on her own. We're trying to strengthen her up by helping her increase her Book of Mormon study and prayers. 

The Stake President and a member friend met with the 13 year old's dad this week. He wants her to hold off on baptism. He said that she can still meet with us and come to church, so we will continue to teach her. We invited the whole family to church next week, so hopefully the dad will come and his heart will soften so his daughter (and hopefully even his wife) will be baptized. 

We heard that Sister Ba is struggling a little bit in finding joy in working in her area right now. She said it has been a little hard finding her way around the area and trying to fill their day with people to see. So we have been giving her calls lately to see how she's doing and we will proabbly go on an exchange next week to see how she is doing. Hopefully Zone Meeting tomorrow will give her a boost. 

I had a unique experience on Sunday. I woke up feeling very peaceful, which for me isn't exactly normal since we get up and get straight to work and most of the time I have a million things running through my head. But nothing seemed to weigh on me. During the sacrament ordinance, I had a silent but strong confirmation that my work here in Armenia is acceptable to my Heavenly Father. I don't know why it came to me then or why I needed it then, but I felt that. It was a such a tender mercy to me to know that my Father knows me and he knows the work I'm doing here. I know for the rest of my mission, that no matter who gets baptized or who accepts the gospel message, it's okay because I've been trying my best, even though I'm imperfect. It's enough.

I'm grateful that you and Sister C have been such strong examples to me of always being happy and letting the Lord do His work. I'm grateful for your love.

I love you both so much!

Have a great week!

Sister Morreall