Hiya to all my friends and family!
This last week has been really good for me! We've had some really good lessons with investigators and met some more ward members who are amazing. Sunday, me and Sister McCoy taught sharing time in Primary and it went well, considering how kids are. We played a game most of the time to get them moving. Wednesday night, we met with C, who has been investigaing the church. He's been taught the first 3 lessons, but we talked about the importance of baptism and confirmation. He accepted it really well and we've dated him for baptism June 28th! We have some things to work out and he knows the commandments are coming up, so that's what we are teaching tonight. I pray we will have the spirit with us and that he'll know the truthfulness and importance of what we teach him. He's an amazing man though.
Here comes the amazing part of the week though. Monday, President and Sister Uchtdorf came to our mission!! They talked to all of the England Manchester Missionaries! It was absolutely amazing! We met at Chorley, where the MTC and Preston Temple are, in the morning and we were going to take a group picture with President and Sister Uchtdorf. Obviously, the couples and sisters were in the front and me and Sister McCoy were joking about how we were going to save room for the Uchtdorf's. Well... the photographer comes up to us and asks us to make room for them!! My jaw dropped. Me and Sister McCoy were lucky enough to be sandwiched between them. He came over and I almost started crying because of the incredible spirit you felt. He truly is an apostle of the Lord.
President and Sister Uchtdorf spoke to us afterwards for 2 hours. Sister Uchtdorf spoke to us about how elders have to get rid of their girlfriends!! She said they are a distraction and that you can always get someone better when you return home. All the sisters were cracking up because we could think of at least 15 elders who had girlfriends back home. She's right though! She always talked to us about how we have a 24 hour prayer service for the missionaries at the temple. What a great thing that is too! Knowing that, has really helped me press on and endure. I have such a support system at the temples and back home! Thank you all! President Uchtdorf stressed the importance of having and needing the spirit as we teach and find people. He said you want you feel comfortable with the spirit and the you want the spirit to feel comfortable with you. The spirit is such an important part of a missionaries life, of everyone's life, actually. You need to make sure you are always worthy to have it with you!
I know this Church is true with every fiber of my being! I know that God loves us; he loves us so much he sent his only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ to atone for our sins. God knew what Christ would suffer through and what he would have to endure and I know God's heart was breaking, but he loved us enough to send him anyways. Christ suffered every pain, temptation, sin and sorrow (Alma 7:11-13) for every human soul. I'm so grateful to my Savior for all that he suffered just for me. Just so I can return to my Heavenly Father and live with him once again. We need to be repenting everyday, and striving our best to keep the commandments. Endure to the end!! I love being a missionary. It's the greatest thing ever watching people accept what you are teaching them and watching the spirit just completely take over.
I love you all and I'm grateful for all of your support and love! Continuing pressing on and feasting upon the words of Christ!
"The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecution may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth nobly, boldly and independent, til it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, til the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done."
- Joseph Smith Jr.
Love,
Sister Hogge
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