Week 25

Getting' that line in the water.....

WE GOT IPADS!!!

     I can't even begin to say how amazing these things are. The hastening of the work has been talked about a lot lately and President explained that this is the way the work was going to be hastened. This is in no way doctrine, but President feels strongly that God is fulfilling His promise in Moses 7:62 through these ipads. This is the way that it truth will come out of heaven (satellites, hello), and it will reach all four quarters of the earth, even those places that we're not allowed in. Cause fortunate for us, the internet's kinda everywhere. He showed us a video of President Kimball talking about how technology is going to be used in missionary work and he's trying to explain stuff like computers and ipads and how they'll be used. It's amazing.

     The hastening's on. With every post we put on Facebook, we have the potential of reaching 54,000 people as people who are friends with our friends can see it. Instead of tracting and putting a ton of energy reaching out to one person, we can reach out to thousands with the touch of our fingers.

     In chapter 8 of Preach My Gospel, there's a quote from Elder Oaks about how fishermen will find more success the longer they keep their fishing lines in the water. That's the whole point of this. We have access to Facebook all throughout the day and we have a ward missionary email account, where we're in constant contact with our ward leaders and investigators. Our planners and area book are on it, which is difficult as we're in the process of transferring everything from paper to electronic right now. #firstworldproblems #forreal

     On Saturday, we a ward service project at the Beckhams and we stayed there after for facebook and dinner. We had four lessons that day and ALL of them were from the ipad. And since it's so convenient to just roll up and sit there at a member's home, ALL of them were member present. We've been struggling to just get 2 member present lessons a week and we got 7 last week. I know, ridiculous right? We had our first skype lesson that Sheila and Milly taught with us in and we had 2 Facebook lessons that Noah, their teenage grandson who usually isn't too interested with gospel stuff, got so involved in it.  We had a full on lesson on Facebook while we were sitting outside in the woods by the campfire. It's amazing. We had a couple other lessons that day with so many different people without even leaving their property.

     We've been working with Ciera, who's 14. She came to church last Sunday, thanks to the Beckhams and she can't get enough of Young Womans and Personal Progress. We've been kinda teaching her the lessons through Personal Progress. Like in the first Faith experience, you read all about faith and prayer and the First Vision. What? It's like they knew what they were doing when they put those experiences together. She loves praying. She said the night of our first lesson, she went home and prayed to know if God was there. She felt peace throughout her whole body and got chills and started crying. It kinda scared her how immediate and how powerful the feeling was, but we explained what she felt a little bit more. She's just soaking up the gospel and asked her mom yesterday if she could get baptized. We weren't even planning on bringing it up till tomorrow, but Milly said she asked her mom if she could and we set a date for March 1 with her.

     Milly said that two different people came up to her at church and told her how much they loved us. I'm just so grateful to be serving in this ward. Ahh, I love it, I LOVE the people here, I'm going to die when I leave.

     We'll get calls from President tonight. Things are finally going right here and I am dying to stay here just one more transfer. 7.5 months in Keystone? Bring it.

Love y'all!

Sister Carr