Tender Mercies

This past week has been busy Monday morning we did a service project at a children's hospital. Sounds exciting right!  We here every where you go they have painted white curbs and they paint all the bases of their trees white. I am not quite sure why but I have heard that it keeps the rabbits away.  It must be right cause I have not seen a rabbit since I have been here.  The administrators building was where the paint was kept and well as everything else.  They do not have the American concept that the administrators place is the most expensive place built. This was not more than a shack with a tin roof and old wood planking  spaced inches apart for the floor.  They poured white paint in 1/4 of the bucket and then added water to fill it up.  I now know what white wash means. We went we painted and every one was happy. yes ans it was the stp people that we see at church no different than at home. We had a meal at a members home that night and shared pictures and a spiritual thought.  We have gone out on meetings with the Elders and Sisters and have met many people Wednesday was a holiday here so we were told to stay inside and clean and busy ourselves so we did.  I tried to make bread and cookies. I still need to work on the bread part. Sunday being Mother's day I seat up all the call home for the missionaries.  They came here at different times to skype or face time their Moms and families.  When I did this task I found out that one Father is not doing well The Sister missionary knows this but his condition is getting majorly worse. I was scared for her turn to come to call home.  If I never accomplish anything else on this mission I am now very aware that I was sent here to be with her at this time. Our Heavenly Father is very much in control and knows our needs and will put people in our path to help us and to hold us up in our hours of needs and sorrows.  I have never felt so much like a conduit for The Lord's love and arms as I did yesterday holding that Sister missionary after her call home. She is much taller than I (surprise, surprise) so as she sat on a stool I just held her head in may arms as she cried  and wept for what will surely come to pass before she gets home. I know that God loves her and her willingness to be obedient to Him in all things. I felt it I tried to have her feel it through me. We walked to church and every meeting there was a powerful message of how we can find peace. She had asked Elder Meng to give her a priesthood blessing so after church The Zone Elders and Him gave her a blessing restating everything that had been said in church or so it seemed to me. How God knows and love us as is in charge and knows our needs and will provide if we are faithful. Again I was blessed to hold her and let her cry and weep. She is an amazing young Lady and is sure footed in the gospel and knows how she can best bring blessings down from Heaven to her Dad. She told me this and said this is one of many reasons she came on a mission so that her Dad could be blessed through her willingness and her obedience. I stand in ah of her and these young giants they call missionaries.  I had fixed dinner before we went to church for a party of 5 well we ended up with 11.  We had the prayer on the food and like the loaves and the fishes we eat and were filled and we had food left over.  I do testify that God loves us all He knows our needs and He will provide, and some times we are blessed enough to be help him provide and sometimes we are blessed to whom He provides for. I love ya all

Baptism

Two Baptisms

Well we have had two baptisms in our City of Chely.  The first was a man named Vassaslve.  He is about 70 years old.  The second is a lady about 82 years old.  I can not tell you of the humbling feeling I get when I think of what they have seen and been through in their life time. I hear of the psychical hunger and the spiritual hunger that they have endured and I can't help but be humbled for I have never in my life time experience either.  I have been blessed beyond measure.  We have been asked to sit in on some meeting with the Elders and Sisters not only by them but by their investigators some have worked out and one did not go the way the investigator wanted it to go.  The priesthood was lost and now has been restored through Joseph Smith and that is the power and true authority of God and I cannot deny that. The power of the Holy Ghost is real sometimes in these meeting it is so strong that you know you are not alone in testifying and  you also know when to stop talking, it is amazing..  The clothes the Elders had for the elderly lady did not look like they would fit so Sunday we were discussing that with the Relief Society then the Grandson came and said oh she has her own clothes and since he was a rm we thought all was taken care of.  Well she came out with a red flowered dress or nightgown the Mission President No and No again.  It seems like if it matters to the Lord that they are all dressed in White clothes that it would  matter too that the Baptism be under the direction of the Priesthood and  done by someone who holds the keys and has the authority to perform that ordinance.   As you can see we are getting the missionary spirit and are trying to do our part it is hard but very humbling at the same time.  I love you all.  Please though look around and be thankful for your life and what you have.