Family!
Well this week has been really busy and super good! Lots of good things have been happening and working out for us!
This week we had a miniature Zone Conference! President Poulsen is really really great, I love him even though I don't know much about him yet. My interview with him is in 2 weeks. I do know that he is a powerful teacher :) He talked a lot about what we individually will do with the opportunity of serving a mission. He had a cute little analogy about a wicked king who was holding a little bird only letting the head stick out so you couldn't tell if it was dead or alive, and the king wanted to test his wisest servants. The king tells the servants if you tell me the bird is dead I will open my hands and the bird will fly away but if you tell me it is alive I will crack the little neck and it will be dead! President told us just like this story, we are given the opportunity to serve missions and "It lies in OUR hands" what we do with it. No mater what the servants said, the answer lied in the King’s hands........and so do our missions. WE make of it what we want! That hit me pretty hard and I can't believe it, but I only have until October left; so I really want to make sure that I make the best of the time I am given to serve the Lord.
Saturday I ran into the “Reno” Marsh's and that was soo fun! I had no clue they were here and I turn around and there was Rusty! We also got a text about a tour with 40 people; so me and Sister Ye decided to take it. Well, it was a Samoan ward and Gabe Reed was the bishop.......hopefully you know that he was a NFL football player! Well, it was awesome.......and I would have had no idea except in the South Visitors Center we play mormon.org <http://mormon.org> videos and he is on it, so we all know him so that was awesome!
Also, Ben who you all know about is awesome and he gave me his friend's number who lives in Liberia. His name is Bobby. So I called him and he is sooo receptive to the gospel and Ben told him “this is the only true church and you need to be a part of it! Way to go BEN!!
And Sunday one of our Chinese investigators came to music and the spoken word. We actually have never had the chance to actually teach her a lesson so we took her around Temple Square and taught her all about the Restoration. She is atheist and from Beijing. But she was awesome and she was going to church that same day but she didn't feel comfortable going alone so President allowed us to go to her ward. So we went to her ward, which is the YSA ward from the University of Utah. They had a special Easter sacrament meeting with all music and professional musicians from New York came and it was incredible....the other cool thing is the bishop's name is Whitney Clayton just like the President of the 70 because that is his dad! So, Elder Clayton was there in the meeting! SO COOL!!!!
So get this, today we had our first lesson with Bobby Ben's friend in Liberia! We learned a lot about him and that he was in refugee camps in Ghana together and then moved back together to Liberia and they are just best friends! Well, the lesson went great and then later after the lesson I was trying to think of all the people that I could call that we could have as a member present in our lessons. I wanted the perfect match for him......I would ask Ben but he is too recently a new member.......so we were about to go start p-day and these 3 people start talking to Sister Ye (because they are from China as well) so they know Mandarin. Well the one guy didn't speak Mandarin and was African.......so I started talking to him. Come to find out; he is also from Liberia and just finished his mission! He is from the same city that Ben and Bobby were from AND was in the same refugee camps at the same time! They speak the same dialect and have almost IDENTICAL stories!!! So.......he asked if he could help with some lessons....... prayer answered!! I am sooo happy and so excited to be able to teach Bobby with him there. “Connections” are good for people investigating the church. :) Anyway lots of good things are happening right now!
I am soo excited to see you all this weekend! :) I hope that everything is going well for everyone. I love you all and I am so grateful for all of the things that each one of you do to help and strengthen me! Love you!!
The church is true.
Sister Marsh
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