January 19, 2015

Hello! It's so good to hear from all of you today! Macey, I am so glad you had a great birthday!! I can't believe you are 12! This week was hopefully the last "slow" week since school starts back up tomorrow! I am so excited to work with a full campus again!! It's been a slow 6 weeks, but things are starting to look more promising! :) We taught a girl from Nigeria this week named E and she is pretty cool! We also saw a recent convert who is so dang smart! His gospel- knowledge is out of this world!! He requested that we teach him a little bit more about the Grace of God and why it is important in each of our lives! Institute started back up and it was so good! I love what we are able to learn from the direction of the spirit! 

Well.. the best part of the week was by far when ELDER BEDNAR came to the TLM! Wow!! The spirit that is felt in the presence of an apostle of God is unreal! We had 2 members of the Seventy (Elder Villareal & Elder Lawrence), The Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric (Elder Davies), and a member of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles (Elder Bednar) all in the same room!! So cool!! We had a missionary meeting where all 260 missionaries and the 7 senior couples gathered and we had a Q&A session with Elder Bednar! It was so cool! At the very end, he gave us a prophetic promise and said (something along the lines of...) "As you try to be the best you can be and serve the Lord to the best of your ability, you will have no more disposition to do evil for the rest of your lives... But, you must be both diligent and obedient." Then we were able to stay for the next meeting (YSA Conference) where he also did another Q&A! I learned so much this week! I wish I had time to tell you more about it! Something that really stood out to me was when he asked us "Have you unwrapped the Gift of the Holy Ghost?" I know that the spirit is a gift that we have been given as members, but it is so important that we use the gift to the fullest! What a blessing it truly is to have the "spirit with us always" which is the promise we receive when we enter the waters of baptism and covenant with our Heavenly Father! I love this gospel so much! I hope y'all have a great week :)

 Love,
Sister Evans

(This is the group of missionaries that I came out with) 

 Sister Christensen is leaving to go home in 3 weeks!