Ross, Emma

Hola friends!!  I just want to say how grateful I am for a mission. If you are considering going on one, please DO NOT HESITATE! it's the best experience ever. I promise that any worries or fears you have will be made right if it's what God needs you to do.  This week our mission has had a focus of "being in the arena with Christ". I felt that big time!! Our friend was going to be baptized and then she decided it wasn't for her (lots of reasons for this- she has a lot going on right now). I was devastated haha. we did all we could for her!! I felt how much God loves her and wants this for her. i was pretty beat down because of it but then had many tender mercies from the Lord. I read this scripture the next day:  " And  b blessed  art thou; for because ye have been diligent in laboring with me in my vineyard, and have kept my commandments, and have brought unto me again the  c natural  fruit, that my vineyard is no more corrupted, and the bad is c...

Hey everyone!!  Just wanted to pop in and share the POWER OF PRAYER!!! CHRISTINA WAS BAPTIZED THIS WEEK!!!  She was the one I mentioned last week who said she didn't want to be baptized. we had felt like we lost and it was pretty devastating. Then she came to us on monday and said "I've been reading the bible trying to prove that this church is wrong. but every. single. verse i've read has shown me that this is the true church of Jesus Christ. I want to be baptized". we were IN AWE. Literally God works. He knew all along that this would be the outcome of Christina's journey- and man did we learn so much as we did all we could for her. She bore testimony of the need for promises with God. She said "I've been swerving lanes, unable to make a decision. every time I would see a pebble in this lane i would freak out and swerve into the other lane. But now i'm picking a lane and it's the most beautiful lane i've ever been on".  It was truly...