​Hey Y'all!

This week has been an amazing, stressful, full of learning week! probably one of my favorite in the whole 5 months i have been serving.

Tuesday Night we retaught the Commandments to a sister. (we decided to reteach the lessons because we don't know how much she was taught, if she understands ETC. because we didn't teach her.) Sister Jacobsen came with us and they connected perfectly! at the end of the lesson i committed her to not smoke! at all!! i had no idea i was going to do that but i did!! i bore strong testimony that she can do it! it was a very spiritual moment for all of us! as we left Sister Jacobsen said "i didn't know you were going to do that, that was very brave of you." I told her it wasn't me, it was the Holy Ghost prompting me to, i told her that anything is possible through Jesus Christ if we just have faith. she was shocked and we said good night all praying She would take my Challenge.

Wednesday we had a bunch of interesting Experiences. We caught an investigator at home by surprise. Her little kids happened to get the door open and then got mom after we asked them too. she was shocked when she found us at the door. She told us she would call when we could come over.... we are still waiting for that call. We taught a sister the plan of salvation. we read from the Doctrine and Convents and she loved it!! she is just soaking up all the info we can give her.  WE also got together with the Elders and practiced the song we are going to sing at the baptism. it sounds gorgeous! plus its my Favorite song!

Thursday was the Baptismal Interview. Elder Burrows came and gave her the interview. it went well he said. she passed and that part was over for all of us. whoosh. check that off the stressful list. she had smoked 2 on wednesday and one thursday so she couldn't smoke at on friday or else we would have to postpone that baptism.

On thursday we also found out that we had lice. ha ha that was fun to find out. so in the middle of weekly planning we called sister Mckinney who is our nurse. she said we had to do an 8 hour long process to get rid of it. well we had to go to our interview which she wasn't very happy about but we had to go. then we found out that the stuff need to stay in our hair for 8 hours and we had to clean EVERYTHING! it took us all day friday to do that. We started on friday, our district called us in for district meeting and we did it over the phone while i applied the stuff to sister graysons hair. then we gave our training then i combed sister graysons hair. then we switched. her hair took like 2 and a half hours to do and mine took an hour and a half. it was great! then we had to wear these shower caps for eight hours. but our hair was incredibly soft after we did this treatment! EXTRA BONUS!!! She didn't smoke at all!! woot! and the Elders took our car so it turned out to be a good thing for everyone. lots of miracles that day.

WE had an amazing baptism on saturday!! Rosemary is officially a member of the true church! she had an amazing service which was super spiritual and lots of people came!! the elders and us sang our song and i gave a good talk on the Holy Ghost! it was all soo perfect!! Elder Resinkin got to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday and he did awesome! He is a new missionary, he is almost done training so yesterday was his first time. it was funny because earlier in the week Rosemary asked if i could baptize her. i had to explain to her that i couldn't but any male member of the church could. it was a scary moment. the Elders even asked if she still wanted to be baptized after we told them what happened. but she said she just needed to think more. it was perfect. She is doing so well and she has so many friends in the ward! this gospel has done her wonders!!

This week has been a lot about faith. Everything we seem to be involved in this week had to do with faith. Faith is such a strange concept but it is amazing! That is one of the first principles of the Gospel. Faith is believing in something that you cant see. what is believing though?  Believing is by definition : "accept (something) as true; feel sure of the truth of."

then what is faith? faith is acting on that belief! so as Rosemary did is she showed Faith because she acted on the belief that baptism is important. So how can we show faith everyday? well by acting on it!! when you recieve those spiritual promptings, or when you say personal prayers or reading scriptures. you have to act on them! make them personal! include them in your life! this brings it on to how can i apply the scriptures i read? well MEMBER MISSIONARY WORK!! have you read the book, The power of everyday missionaries? Sister Grayson and i are! read it! it will help you to do member missionary work! it isn't that hard! we would all benefit greatly from being missionaries. not just the people you are sharing the gospel with but you and your families will. i can testify of it!  and it all come down to having Faith. isn't this gospel great?

The church  is so true!

Love Sister Hanks