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| Walking up our stairs from the basement and the snow reached my knees! |
What a week and what an exciting
next transfer this is going to be! I am
staying in Ajax to finish training Sister Turley. We have so many good things happening that I
am excited for what's in the future!
Louis and Faye are doing so
good! They are both super excited to be
getting their patriarchal blessings on Tuesday.
We had a lesson with them last week which was truly inspired.
Afterwards, Louis and Faye were so kind to thank me personally for sticking with
them since November. It was a really
tender experience as they poured out their heart and bore testimony of how much
they have grown in the gospel and what they know to be true. It was a moment for me that I knew my
Heavenly Father is pleased with me, a moment where I recognized his hand in my
mission and this is what He wants me to do and I am so blessed to see the
miracles that have come from it. They
are getting so excited to go to the temple in March to do baptisms, special
ordinances, and be sealed for eternity J
Sister Turley and I have been in
the steps of finding people to teach and I got an idea and prompting that we
needed to select some members from the ward and talk to their neighbors. As we knocked on doors, we introduced
ourselves and asked if they needed help with anything or would like any service
performed for them. We then explained we
are friends of their neighbors and asked if we could come back another time and
share a brief lesson. We got a couple of appointments lined up from doing this!
So that was something fun and new to try!
I convinced Sister Turley that we
should ride the bus on Saturday during rush hour and try to talk to as many
people as we could. The last ride back home, we met a man named Swaney who is
Jamaican. He was just humming away all by himself in the back of the bus and
Sister Turley was able to talk to him.
She forgot to grab his number but thankfully gave him a pass along
card. He called us 10 minutes after we
had gotten off of the bus and gave us his number. We then set up a time to meet him at the
library and brought a member to come teaching with us. It went really well and he even asked us in
the end what he should specifically pray for before we even invited him to
pray! He is awesome. We are excited to continue to teach him and
will be seeing him tonight. He said that
the reason why he wants to meet with us is because he saw the light of Christ
in us as we talked to people. That was soooo cool to hear! He was touched and told us that people don't
talk to each other anymore. What a great experience J
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| With Mavis at her baptism! Such a spiritual day! |
Yesterday, Mavis was baptized!! She is Jamaican and one of the sweetest ladies I
have ever met! I knew her from Whitby. When I served in that area, her daughter was
in the ward and was less-active and now is attending church. When we went over
to share with her lessons, Mavis would always sit in. THEN, while Sister Turley and I were going
through our area book, we found a list of four names of potentials in
Pickering, which was very odd. We sent
the information over to the Pickering Elders and guess what?! Mavis was on that list!! I didn't know she
lived in Pickering!! She was taught for
the last month and was baptized yesterdayJ What a beautiful baptism it was... Mavis just
looked up, closed her eyes and began to sob after she was baptized. She then
sang an old Jamaican song after she was baptized and almost brought the room
into tears followed by her sweet testimony. She said that she is so grateful
for my missionary work and touching her heart while I was in Whitby. While hearing our messages it stirred up the
spirit and she was prepared for the Elders to teach her. I was so grateful to be able to witness her
baptism and see the happiness that has filled her life.
I was also blessed to hear that
Pamala (the lady I taught in London) was able to enter the waters of baptism
yesterday. I am blessed and so humbled
for the experiences in which I have to see my brothers and sisters making that
sacred covenant with our Heavenly Father.
I want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day! I would love to be able to send you
all a note, but time does not allow for that.
Your support, prayers, and love mean more to me than you know, so a
simple thank you will have to suffice. I KNOW that the same Gospel taught by prophets
of old and our Savior, Jesus Christ, has been restored to the Earth today
through a living prophet. God has worked in this way since the days of Adam,
why would He change now? I testify that
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He has called another prophet
to head His kingdom upon the Earth at this time and has restored the priesthood
authority for His children to receive the necessary ordinances to bring to pass
the salvation of His children.
The gospel is true. "Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: "I know
that my Redeemer lives!"
Until next time...
Sister Robb
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