Keeping our Lights Burning Continually

Dear Family and Friends,

Happy September! We had an awesome week. Lots of teaching and finding and spreading the good word to the people of Arkansas. The most exciting part of the week is that we invited two of our investigators to be baptized near the end of September and they said yes! YAY!  It is a grandmother and granddaughter Rhonda and Nevaeh and they are both really great. Rhonda loves learning about the plan of salvation and is excited to learn more. We briefly mentioned the word of wisdom when we went over on Friday and when we visited her Sunday, Rhonda informed us that she has not had any coffee since we mentioned that it was something we didn't do. A-mazing!

Early this week the Sister Training leader came down and went on splits with me and Sister Mecham. It was really great and we were able to find lots of new people to teach.

This week I also learned a very important lesson. If you do not want to get eaten by a dog you have to run faster than/sacrifice your companion. I learned this when Sister Mecham and I were going to visit a potential investigator. We got to her front porch and this giant pit bull was just sitting there. Then it got up really fast and barked at us. And what does my dear companion do? She turns around, pushes me out of the way and bolts as fast as she can! Luckily the dog was on a chain and we were in no real danger but I know that Sister Mecham will not be shielding me from any dog attacks anytime soon :)

Yesterday I gave a talk in sacrament meeting. I was asked to speak Saturday around 11 so I had basically no time to prepare, but thanks to lots of prayer and inspiration it ended up going really well. I spoke on the parable of the 10 virgins and how important it is to be spiritually prepared. There is a scripture in Leviticus 24:2 that talks about having our lights burning continually. If our lights are going to burn continually then we must be putting oil in our lamps continually. We have to continue to say prayers and read scriptures and go to church or we run the risk of our light going out. WE see this so often as missionaries. People stop reading scriptures then they stop saying prayers, then they stop coming to church and pretty soon they are far away from where they want to be and their lamps are very dim. But the great thing about the gospel is that Christ is always there with his arms outstretched ready to welcome back all who have gone astray and help them fill their lamps again.

This is the last week in the transfer! Where did it go?! Sister Mecham and I are praying that we get to stay together for 1 more transfer. We find out next Monday so keep your fingers crossed!

As always thanks for all the love and support! Have a great week! And if you get the chance, wish my dad a Happy Birthday for me!
Love
Sister Aase

PS.  We came up with a name for the evil sweater wearing dog I mentioned in last weeks letter ....Luci-fluff....like Lucifer....like the devil....which it is!!