Seany is doing so well, buttttt she doesn't feel like she's ready to be baptized this week which is disappointing. She for sure wants to though... in fact this entire week she went to early morning seminary... half the kids in the ward don't go to seminary... ha she's amazing! SHE JUST NEEDS TO CHOOSE A DATE!!! She's really quite nervous about getting baptized and then going less active, valid... but we aren't going to let that happen and the fact that she is scared of it means that she really probably won't do that. It was so funny Sister Tanner told a story about how when she was a little girl and they would have the DARE program and talk about the dangers of drugs she would come home and be like "i'm just so afraid that I'll do drugs" to her mum but then her mum was like that's ridiculous you have agency and if you don't want to do something you won't.
It's a funny little story but it's true. So often we let fear get in the way of us living our lives but we don't need to. "For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." There are so many times on my mission and in my life where I have stopped from doing something because I've been afraid of what the world would think rather than just worrying about my relationship with God. I'm trying my best to over come this. It's funny finding in a car is way more challenging than on a bike so we do funny things like when we see people at a park we circle around and jump out of the car just to talk to them. Most of the time they don't want to talk to us but at least we are right with God, and we don't ever have to wonder if we missed a chance.
Yesterday we taught one of our newer investigators Jackie Chen (from China) about the restoration. At the end of the lessons he was talking about how he would need time to think these things over. I know I've been out for 16 months and I should be used to inviting people to be baptized but there was the moment again... my heart was racing.... my head was spinning... and I knew what I had to do. "jackie when you find out this is true will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God?" it came out so fast he didn't completely understand me "pardon, sister?" "oh sorry! Jackie... if you find out this is true will you be baptized?" "WELL OF COURSE!!!" and then the relief washes over me. I'm so glad I followed the spirit. "For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
I know that Heavenly Father doesn't want us to be afraid but he wants us to see our true potential he wants us to recognize that we CAN do hard things and Satan really doesn't have any power over us. I know that through Jesus Christ's atonement we can reach that potential that Heavenly Father knows we have. I know that living the gospel is the only way to access that cleansing and enabling power. That's why I live the gospel, it is THE ONLY way.
I love each of you! Life is so amazing! Trust Heavenly Father, he knows what's up... to say the least. I'm so grateful for the miracles that I see every day. Have you been seeing them in your life?
xoxo
Sister Wyatt
ps. sister tanner and i's favorite word these days is conniption.... it's fun!
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