Hey y'all,

    This has been a great week! I loved zone conference and training. I learned so much and I'm excited to be able to apply it to missionary work. I know that great things will happen this transfer, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

        We had a few lessons with Brother Moore, he is on date to be baptized on the 28th of April. The more he learns he gets so excited for his baptism! I know that he will do great things in the gospel. Sometimes we'll be teaching him and he'll say, "That's hard! but it's worth it to be with my family". He was talking about baptism and how it is a step to being sealed to his family in the temple. He is so excited for it, that is his main goal!  I know that is so important, I'm so grateful to have that knowledge and to be able to share it with others. To help them know that death isn't the end. Families are forever as we live worthy of those covenants/promises we make.   

        We went to see a less active older lady Sister Hall. We've been trying to find out what her concerns are but nothing has been working. We know that she's been struggling with a few things but we weren't sure on what exactly. So we prayed to be able to know what her concerns are.  We decided to read a chapter out of the book of Mormon. Once we got in there though we read the introduction instead. We asked her one question and and at first she was hesitant and guarded. She had told us that once she get's her concerns resolved she'll come back to church. I felt impressed to express to her our purpose as missionary's and how we're here to help her come unto Christ. It was like a light switch came on and she was able to tell us her concerns. We were able to ask questions to find out her understanding and help her with scriptures to resolve the concerns she had. The spirit was there in the lesson, I felt the saviors love for her so strong. I know that the holy ghost was able to help us remember scriptures she needed. I found one that didn't apply to her at all and book marked it for some reason... not sure why. 

       She is such a fantastic lady. She makes dolls for people and she gave us each one of the dolls she made. 

         A few weeks ago it was getting closer to 9 pm and weren't sure which less active we were going to visit. We felt like we should visit the Edwards, Sis Edwards is a little older German lady, she is so sweet and loves to laugh. She was surprised by our visit. She kept asking who told us to come by? over and over... Nobody we just felt like we should. She said that the missionaries said the same thing the first time she met them. She asked a question and the scripture I book marked earlier was able to answer her question! Her home teachers visited her the next day, and told us that our visit really helped. She wants to start coming back to church. Also that her grandsons aren't members and would like to know more about the church.

         We received a referral to stop by a member's nephew's house. His name is Will, and at first we thought he was less active but he isn't a member. So we started teaching him.  He's been very open to and excepted the lessons and came to church. He really liked the fellowship and even participated in the lessons. He is also coming to the Book of Mormon class on Wednesday. It's been great to see his progress over such a short amount of time. We've been able to update her on his progress a long the way, I loved seeing how much of a difference it make to work with her. How important to keep people up to date with information. 

       We were knocking on doors last night. Our goal for that day was 3 and we only had 2 so far. There was a house we'd been to so many times and nobody answered we felt like we should save that for last, as we were knocking some of them were mean! We just kept pushing forward so as we were about to leave we went to knock the house. This guy answered and we just started teaching him and at the end we put him on date for baptism! We think that he'll be great friends with our other investigator Will. Plus there are a few people who just got home from there missions to be able to come to lessons and fellowship them.

I know that heavenly Father has a plan for everyone, and I love seeing how it all works together.  I'm so grateful to be here in this area, and to be a part of this great work! Thank you for all your love and support.

Make it a great week!

Macon Miracles,

Sister Wheelwright