This week was a slow week for our numbers, but we were very busy! It started with Zone Training accompanied by our Assistants to the President coming to Christchurch as well as a missionary couple from the Mission office. We had all been studying for a big trivia quiz on Preach my Gospel, district against district. My District came in 2nd place, but won for best dressed because we sisters had dresses and the elders had matching ties with us! It was way fun :)
On Thursday we were on exchanges with our STL's and Sister Russavage came to Riccarton to work with me! She is AWESOME! I really enjoyed working with her. That day EVERYTHING I had planned for us fell through. The one person who was home was walking out the door so we spent THE WHOLE DAY street contacting and door knocking. We found a lot of potential investigators by doing that, so it ended up being a powerful day.
This week we found a new investigator named Sam. We taught him a restoration lesson and have a return appointment set up with him! I am pretty excited about that!
As for our progressing investigators, Kathy was not able to see us this week, so I was pretty bummed. We were able to see Steve and we taught him the first half of the Plan of Salvation! He has been reading his Book of Mormon and marking some of the passages he likes! It is so cute! He came to church with us yesterday which was really exciting and stayed for all 3 hours! We are hoping to invite him to be baptized this week, so please pray for us that he will accept!
This week in the Book of Mormon I was reading in Mosiah, about King Benjamin's address to his people. He mentioned "Retaining a Remission of our Sins" Which reminded me of Elder Bednar's Conference address on that same subject this past conference! I feel so blessed that we can retain a remission of our sins. That the Lord isn't the type to forgive us once then never again. We are able to partake of the sacrament each week and renew the covenants we made at baptism with the Lord, we are able to draw upon the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and confess our sins to the Lord and upon forsaking them He will forgive us. I am so grateful for all the gifts and opportunities our Loving Heavenly Father gives us so that we can obtain a remission of our sins. We are never forgotten or left behind. He is always aware of us, our sins, and our trials and He continues to love us and guide us toward repentance and forgiveness! I hope we all realize how blessed we are to have the ability to be forgiven and be made clean and whole. I hope we are all taking advantage of the gifts our Father gives us and working each and every day to be more like Him.
I love you all! Thank you for the prayers!
Love, Sister Golden
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