March 16th Email

Dear Family and Friends,

What a glorious week it has been!!! Life is good when you are serving the Lord. Good things are happening in Sarasota, Florida! This week a man by the name of Dave Deyoe was baptized. His wife is a member and we have only been teaching him for about 2 months. He loves the church and will do whatever it takes to live it. I know that he will be a strong priesthood holder! The baptism was small but the spirit was really strong. I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and when I stood up to give it the whole thing changed. I just felt I should shard something else so I did. I turned out well though! This couple is really looking forward to being sealed in the temple in a year. Everyone at church loves the Deyoe’s. It is awesome to have a ward that will support recent converts. We spent a lot of time with them this week. We had fun watching Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration. They liked it themselves!

This week was Zone Conference. We talked a lot about fierce finding and prayer. A lot of this work is praying like it all depends on God and then working as though it all depends on you! With God this work is easy and fun. I love this work and can’t wait to teach others about what I know. I think that some of the most sacred experiences are when people want to go to the temple. This gospel brings so many blessings to us. If each of us could fully grasp the eternal perspective of this life we would be so much better off. It is all about eternal life!!!

On Thursday we went and visited with a lady in our ward that I had an automatic connection with. We have been trying to see her for awhile and we finally did get over to her house. She is the sweetest lady and is going through kindof a hard time. Her husband is somewhat of an inactive member. But this lady is strong and continues to bring her three children to church even if he won’t come. This is hard but she knows it is the right thing to do. She talked to us a lot about giving up our fears and filling our lives with love. That is how she lives everyday! Not in fear but in love!

On Friday night we had a really fun ward activity. We had a fund raiser for girl’s camp. We had a spaghetti dinner and a desert auction. The spaghetti was really good but the best part was the auction. Sister Stewart and I had made truffles that looked liked missionary tags. But after they were made we tried some of the other truffles we had made and they were disgusting. We were embarrassed to take them but we did. They sold for 20 dollars. A lot of people were generous. A man in our ward that couldn’t be there gave me a hundred dollars that was to be spent. I had a lot of fun auctioning for him. Another person gave us 35 dollars for caramels. But the caramels went for $50. So we got him something else. It was fun to be with our ward family!

After the baptism yesterday, we went to a fireside. David Osmond spoke about overcoming adversity. He is related to the original Osmond’s. His dad is Alan. He has a really neat story about having MS and still finding joy. He told us that “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” It is all is the way we look at things. He has an amazing voice and he sang a little bit for us. He is a really neat guy. He quoted from the Wizard of Oz something that I thought was really profound. At the end of the movie, when the wicked witch is melting, she says to Dorothy “ Who would have thought that a sweet little girl like you could destroy all my beautiful wickedness.” We can all destroy Satan but we have to continue to press forward in the cause of righteousness.

I love you all so much and hope that you will take the things I write to heart. Thank you for the continued support. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love
Sister Comte