Come back from the Holidays..!!

This past week was gray. Mostly by the weather's standards. This week also seemed to fly by very quickly!

For the most part we received a lot of "Come back after the Holidays."It was good though because I was feeling maybe just a slight bit down then yesterday Lanay came to church. Yay! Then a girl who we will be teaching on Wednesday for the first time who is 10, came to church as well. Then, after a while, in walks Wyatt! He disappeared out of nowhere for the past couple weeks. Thankfully we stopped by the other day and didn't see him and talked to his sister who said she'd tell him we stopped by. Woot woot. We had three investigators at church! Honestly, couldn't ask for anything better. 

I don't know what to report on other than Barry is doing really well and we had a wonderful lesson with him on Friday. The spirit was very strong and our team up was awesome. Couldn't ask for anything better. He's getting baptized this Saturday in Cornelia and we finished the program and he'll be there today. The Elders are ready to receive him. We get to go to the baptism and we're hoping it all turns out really well. 

Yesterday we role played with a family and ended up discussing the fact that we have a loving Heavenly Father. Typically, we have pretty similar views as other Christians. Generally speaking. However, our perception of God is different. We believe He has a perfect body, that we lived with Him before we came to this earth. Because of His love for us He created a plan. That plan is centered on Christ and His Atonement. The interesting thing is that that was the one thing that needed to change in order to change all of the doctrine of Christ's original church. And once the nature of God was changed, everything came along with it. It's just interesting. I don't think I wrote it as well as it was discussed last night, but I had a spiritual witness that my Father in Heaven indeed loves me as well as everyone else. 

I'm so grateful for everything. I am grateful for my life, my parents, the experiences I'm having on the mission. I am just thankful.

Love you all,

Sister Smith