Hi!
I'll be quick because I'll be calling tomorrow. This week we worked the hardest ever. We had an eventful week but the events aren't really things I could write a story about. Just a bunch of small miracles. It was the best week I've had in the mission thus far.
I gave my first confirmation blessing, and it was a neat experience to me. I don't remember what I said but I do remember that as soon as I got on the stage to give the blessing, all the nervousness I previously had went away. I felt calm. I'm glad I didn't ask someone else to do it because I learned a lot from what happened.
I got all your boxes... there were too many! I had to make two trips. I also got your envelope with the chocolate bar in it! Thank you so much! That alone was probably enough to make me happy. As you can imagine, Christmas in the mission is quite different; the gifts aren't what make it special. We had an all mission conference that made it special. It was amazing! Several people shared their conversion stories, one of them being Alex Boye. It was just mind-blowing the way the Lord worked to bring that to pass. It reminded me of a scripture I just read last week in Alma 37 verses 6 and 7, "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass...and the Lord God doth work by [small] means to bring about his great and eternal purposes."
That scripture was the recurring theme of our week. I don't know if those people we are teaching now will be baptized in 3 weeks or 3 years but I do know that this the Lord's work. Worst comes to worst, at least we're planting seeds. The baptism we had last week was the result of a planted seed. Georgiana had a friend give her a Book of Mormon over 2 years ago, and just two weeks ago she decided that she needed to be baptized. Frankly, it wasn't much effort on our part. It's amazing to see the Spirit work within someone like it did for her. It was Alma 13:24 & Alma 32:27 in action!
I'll see you tomorrow hopefully! Merry Christmas!!!
Love, Tab
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