Ah I just love you all so much thank you 100 times over for everything you do for me! Happy Birthday TODAY to Brad and later this week to Uncle Greg🎉🎉🎉
-HESTIN, TUCKER, AND SAWYER GOT BAPTIZED THIS WEEK. They are the cutest boys and their baptism was such a special day! Each of them was so excited for the other to be baptized and it just reminded me so much of why all this happens... so we can have eternal families and support eachother forever.
-We had to drop some of my favorite investigators, the Jaurigue family. They just aren't keeping commitments and seem satisfied where they are at in the Catholic church... Hopefully with getting facebook in 2 weeks we will be able to keep in contact all the time even if we wont be teaching them. Keep them in your prayers!!!
-After the most insane summer with so many ups, downs, sideways, and backwards..... FELISSA AND MADISON MURPHY ARE GETTING BAPTIZED NEXT SATURDAY:)))))) There are not even the right words in the English language to describe how happy I am for them!!!
-IT IS DROPING DOWN TO THE 80'S THIS WEEK, I believe this is an early Christmas miracle!
-The neatest miracle I want to share with you. And its a little piece of why I needed to be in Thatcher, AZ September 13th, 2017
We had a dinner appointment with a family named the Morris's. We were running late:)) and the day had gotten a little crazy. At the same time we showed up to their house their friend, Kristin, a non member also showed up. She had just gotten in town and happened to text Sister Morris. Sister Morris invited her over for dinner with us and told her ahead of time we would be there. So there we all are sitting around the dinner table. After getting to know each other Brother Morris asked if I knew Parker Peterson. I told them I went to high school with him... turns out Parker trained their son in the Ohio Columbus Mission. So excited, I asked if either them or their son had ever heard of an Elder Carter. They had!!! (smallest world) The spirit 100% guided this conversation and lead us to talk about missions with Kristin.
The conversation quieted and Brother Morris told us he had to share a story with us:
Two days before Caden Morris (the Morris's son) left on his mission Brother Morris was studying his scriptures and got distracted with facebook. He felt compelled to look at a picture of 6 sodiers that had passed away at war. He went back to his scripture study and couldnt get the picture out of his mind. Pulling the picture back up he felt drawn to a man on the bottom left. Clicking on the mans information he learned that he had passed away 2 years prior but was from Logan, Ohio. He still had family in Logan. We will call them the H's.
Fast forward a few weeks and Elder Morris receives his first assignment. The mission president felt inspired to change some things around and decided to open up an area that had been closed to the missionaries for TEN YEARS (Spirit inspired doesn't always make sense), and place greenie Elder Morris and his companion in Logan. Brother Morris found a way to get the H's contact information. Brother Morris sent a letter describing the experiences he had had leading up to this point along with a Book of Mormon to the H's familys house. A week later Elder Morris and his companion went to the H's house and began teaching them about the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I could tell the spirit had touched Kristin during this lesson. The dinner message we had planned was centered on the Book of Mormon. Few times in my life have I felt the spirit as strong as I did that night. We were able to leave Kristin with a Book of Mormon and our testimonies. Majority of how this all came about was because my brother chose to faithfully serve a mission. So Blake... the blessings of a mission come in time, and I am seeing those blessings!!
Wishing you all the best week!!
-HESTIN, TUCKER, AND SAWYER GOT BAPTIZED THIS WEEK. They are the cutest boys and their baptism was such a special day! Each of them was so excited for the other to be baptized and it just reminded me so much of why all this happens... so we can have eternal families and support eachother forever.
-We had to drop some of my favorite investigators, the Jaurigue family. They just aren't keeping commitments and seem satisfied where they are at in the Catholic church... Hopefully with getting facebook in 2 weeks we will be able to keep in contact all the time even if we wont be teaching them. Keep them in your prayers!!!
-After the most insane summer with so many ups, downs, sideways, and backwards..... FELISSA AND MADISON MURPHY ARE GETTING BAPTIZED NEXT SATURDAY:)))))) There are not even the right words in the English language to describe how happy I am for them!!!
-IT IS DROPING DOWN TO THE 80'S THIS WEEK, I believe this is an early Christmas miracle!
-The neatest miracle I want to share with you. And its a little piece of why I needed to be in Thatcher, AZ September 13th, 2017
We had a dinner appointment with a family named the Morris's. We were running late:)) and the day had gotten a little crazy. At the same time we showed up to their house their friend, Kristin, a non member also showed up. She had just gotten in town and happened to text Sister Morris. Sister Morris invited her over for dinner with us and told her ahead of time we would be there. So there we all are sitting around the dinner table. After getting to know each other Brother Morris asked if I knew Parker Peterson. I told them I went to high school with him... turns out Parker trained their son in the Ohio Columbus Mission. So excited, I asked if either them or their son had ever heard of an Elder Carter. They had!!! (smallest world) The spirit 100% guided this conversation and lead us to talk about missions with Kristin.
The conversation quieted and Brother Morris told us he had to share a story with us:
Two days before Caden Morris (the Morris's son) left on his mission Brother Morris was studying his scriptures and got distracted with facebook. He felt compelled to look at a picture of 6 sodiers that had passed away at war. He went back to his scripture study and couldnt get the picture out of his mind. Pulling the picture back up he felt drawn to a man on the bottom left. Clicking on the mans information he learned that he had passed away 2 years prior but was from Logan, Ohio. He still had family in Logan. We will call them the H's.
Fast forward a few weeks and Elder Morris receives his first assignment. The mission president felt inspired to change some things around and decided to open up an area that had been closed to the missionaries for TEN YEARS (Spirit inspired doesn't always make sense), and place greenie Elder Morris and his companion in Logan. Brother Morris found a way to get the H's contact information. Brother Morris sent a letter describing the experiences he had had leading up to this point along with a Book of Mormon to the H's familys house. A week later Elder Morris and his companion went to the H's house and began teaching them about the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I could tell the spirit had touched Kristin during this lesson. The dinner message we had planned was centered on the Book of Mormon. Few times in my life have I felt the spirit as strong as I did that night. We were able to leave Kristin with a Book of Mormon and our testimonies. Majority of how this all came about was because my brother chose to faithfully serve a mission. So Blake... the blessings of a mission come in time, and I am seeing those blessings!!
Wishing you all the best week!!
Xo Sister Em Carter
1. My favorite boys💛
2. My Apache mama teaching us to make fry bread
3. Day in the life of a blessed biking missionary
4. A cute peruvian that cooks chicken hearts
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