Holy kryptonite (sp) Superman! This week has been absolutely insane!
Sister Peterson and I have been all over Florida! (Not really we just
had to go to Tampa and Winter Haven). So Thursday we had interviews with
President which I am so very grateful for. He helped me realize that I
was falling short on some of the most simplest of things and that is why
maybe other things weren't going the way I felt they should. It
reminded me of something as simple as our faith. If we aren't doing the
simple things like reading our scriptures, praying and going to church
then do we really expect our testimonies to grow? Or to even gain a
testimony of the gospel at all? I hope that makes sense? I'm typing fast
and my mind is kind of in like 30 places at the moment.... Anyway, The
day after interviews we had a meeting in Tampa about online proselyting!
There were about 25 missionaries invited to be in this trial group. It
was mostly mission leaders. Sister Peterson and I still can't figure out
why we were invited... Not that we aren't good missionaries, but I
definitely could think of quite a few missionaries who deserve the
privilege a little more. Regardless I am so excited! There are so many
people we will be able to reach now that before were pretty much
unreachable. President always says, "We are not here to maintain the
work, We are here to hasten it." and Facebook is going to help us do it!
haha This is a great time to be a missionary! However, as of right now
it is just a trial thing so we aren't really doing much with it, but it
will be great when we can! It's kind of funny though because online
proselyting is in no way a new thing. So many other missions have been
doing it for years, but the FTM is a little behind. Apparently the
obedience level here hasn't always been the greatest, but that's
changing now!
Now all that was great and all, but the absolute
highlight of my week was a lesson we had with one of our investigators.
He is the sweetest old man and his greatest fear is to die without being
prepared. He has health issues that are preventing him from being
baptized right now, but during our lesson we told him we were going to
fast so we might know a day that he could be healthy enough to be
baptized by and he started to cry. This man has such great faith that he
knew he would be fine and trusts that the Lord will answer our prayers.
Goodness I want to grow up and just be like G!
We also heard on Sunday about the disaster over in
the Philippines. It was devastating to hear about, but I couldn't help
being relieved when they said that every single missionary was accounted
for. People have been flooding us with stories of various missionaries
exercising their great faith. It just shows how protected we truly are. I
wish I had time to share some of those with you, but I am sure you can
find them online. I love you all so much and am so very grateful for
your emails and letters. You mean the world to me!
Much love,
Sister Upshaw
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