Gish On A Mish: Week 35: Sister Gish Hits 8 Months!

Oh my goodness! You guys! I have been a missionary for 8 months! CRAZY! All week I was thinking about how fast my mission is going! Pretty soon it will be over, and that makes me want to give it my all everyday. I was thinking about how when I get home I will have to face my stake president and my family and report on my mission. I want to be able to truly say that I gave it everything I had, that I learned from the hard times, and most importantly that I have a stronger relationship with my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ because of my time as a missionary.

This week was one of those weeks where a lot of our lessons fell through and things just were not going right. We still made it great though! We had over 100 potential investigators in our area book, and we tried all of them this week! We didn't really have much luck with that, but now we have more finding time to seek the elect.

This week we had some cool experiences with Daniel! I love that guy...He cracks me up! He cancelled our lesson on Monday and wasn't returning any of our calls, so I was a little shook. Then on Saturday the Zone Leaders had a baptism. We invited all of our investigators, but none could come. Me and Sister Stapelman both felt like we should call Daniel, so we did, and... He didn't answer. So we left a message with the details of the baptism. To our surprise we walked in and he was already there! It was a really amazing baptism and the Zone Leaders bore powerful testimony of The Restoration of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. The spirit was very strong! After, we turned to Daniel and said "Are you next?" he just laughed. Then we were going to drop him at our lesson yesterday, but he was like "can I take 5 minutes to talk about the plan of salvation?" so then he drew it on the board and we were like "You know this is God's plan for you!" He sarcastically agreed (and said we were his fave missionaries...lol nbd) then we got him to agree to pray about a baptism date! It was amazing! Our lesson had gone over into FHE time and we asked if he was going. He said "well now I'm late!" and I said "late, but worth the wait" he laughed and then I told him we were going to put that on his baptism program! He laughed even harder!

Sorry to ramble, but I really do like that quote "Late, but worth the wait" because I feel like that is what Heavenly Father and Christ say every time we finally repent! We let ourselves suffer in guilt, when we know our Father in Heaven freely forgives! I just want you all to remember that God is waiting to answer your prayers, and He thinks you are well worth the wait!

I sure love you all!

Love,

Anzie