Waiting Outside

Helloooo everyone!

Emailing a little early this week.  Sorry if I missed you!

This past week was really good!  We felt the Spirit helping us work harder and giving us direction on how to improve.  
We also had the excitement of moving houses this past week!  Since there are 4 Sisters now instead of just 2, we had to find a new house to where all of us could fit (even though I don't think there will be 4 Sisters any more after this transfer...).  We finally found a house and started moving in!  We took the beds and the desks out of our apartment which was interesting because there was no elevator...thank goodness we have Elders!  The new house is kinda scary...yeah.  Big and spacious.  Kinda dark and needs a paint job...but we get what we can take since the other Sisters were in a hotel since coming here.  Haha ;) Sister Yanisa and I will be moving in at the end of the month since the rent on our apartment has been paid until then...we may or may not be procrastinating.  I really just don't want to pack up my stuff to move, because then I don't really have time or a reason to unpack again.  Weird.  
Good things are happening!  New investigators, finding random members who are now inactive.  One was a member since the beginning of the Church in Thailand - 30+ years and has been a branch president twice.  Another was someone people here in Korat know, especially the young men.  It was a powerful moment having those young men help us teach.  They both expressed their love for this older man and told him how much of a role model his was for them and how much they wanted him to come back.  One of them even started crying - an 18 year old boy.  The Spirit was so strong.  I saw that there is no reason why we should underestimate the power of our own example.  In my mind's eye, I feel that the Lord showed me that this less-active member does have potential.  A less-active member now, but a great and powerful leader in the future, especially among the youth.  Truly God sees our potential and as we trust Him, we will be given the ability to begin to see it for ourselves.  After we met him for the first time he started reading his Book of Mormon for the first time in almost a year.  He told us that he felt so good in coming back to the things that he has known for 15+ years now. The Spirit is still the same, all we have to do is seek for it.

3 Nephi 14:7
 7 "Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

Another testimony that I gained this week was about the power of the Book of Mormon.  We have one investigator who we have been teaching for a long time and she kinda stopped progressing. We have been pushing for her to get baptized, but she just has something keeping her back that she refuses to tell us.  Then we had a heart to heart with her about it.  We committed her to write down 5 concerns or questions she has about baptism and then go read the Book of Mormon to find answers.  Since then she has been doing so much better!  She reads the Book of Mormon and Bible at any chance she gets and she asks questions and slowly she is opening up to us more and more.

I learned a lot from her this week.  She's really shy.  Last week she came to church, but came 5 minutes late and was too shy to enter, so she sat outside for an hour and then went home without us even knowing it.  So this week we were determined to get her inside.  I thought about her sitting outside too shy to enter into this most sacred and important meeting.  But then I thought about how ultimately it is her choice to come in or stay outside.  But at the last day, what if she was forbidden to enter into God's kingdom?  

 37 And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins. (Alma 11:37)

Let us all be worthy at the last day.  Let us not procrastinate or exercise our judgement unrighteously as to not be found worthy to enter God's kingdom at the last day!

Love you all!
Sister Norrell