April 3rd Email

Dear Family and Friends,

Sorry about not emailing last week. Too much had happened and I didn’t have enough time. But I will write a good one this week. Many wonderful things happened this week. It was amazing even though most of our appointments fell through. Conference was a big highlight even though some of the time I couldn’t hear over the children I was helping with. It is important to me that people that are coming back or are new to the church hear conference, even if that means entertaining their children. I had made little puzzles and other activities for the kids on P-days and I am glad I did because it helped a little.

The biggest thing I got from conference is 1. We can overcome trials, 2. That our homes need to be sanctuaries where the spirit can reside, 3. We need to attend the temple whenever we can. Even if you can’t go into the temple you should go and touch the temple until the temple touches you. Elder Christofferson said that we can succeed because of the promises that God has given us. But we first must make these covenants and then we must keep up our end of the deal. Elder Eyring said that “Jesus Christ chose to learn for Himself” (by coming here to earth.) He also taught that we are being prepared for eternal things.

I loved Gary Stevensen’s talked about the home. I think that is who gave this talk! He took a tour of a house and likened it to the temple. Our homes need to be evaluated and then some home improvement needs to happen. I also like the analogy of a GPS system to the Plan of Salvation. I always knew that GPS stood for God’s Plan of Salvation!!! We use this analogy sometimes in our teaching!

Last Monday we had FHE with the Deyoe Family. The wife, Sherree, had been inactive for years. The Husband, Dave, was baptized in March. Sherree’s daughter Mary is getting baptized this month. Sherree has two other children that are living at home but we are not teaching them yet. I love this family so much! I call them my Florida Family. We did a really cool FHE with an Easter egg house. It was a gingerbread house that we had gotten from Wal-Mart. We talked about how it needed a sure foundation to stand. We compared the icing to pray and holding our family together. We then talked about different things in our life’s that add color and decoration to our house. It was a really neat lesson and Mary loved decorating the house! It was fun but not that good to eat!

On Thursday we went and did a follow-up appointment with a Mexican Family that we are working with. We are working with two sisters and their boyfriends. Both sisters live with their boyfriends and both have children. The one sister, Arlett, and her boyfriend, Miguel, have two children. The other sister, Fabiola, and her boyfriend, Froy, have one little girl. Their children are sometimes out of control but I love them. The sisters are members and have been inactive for along time. They all speak English pretty well, we completely understand each other. Fabiola and Froy have baby bunnies because they didn’t know that their pet bunnies were male and female. They thought they were both males. Surprise!!! We got to hold the babies. It was really fun. We also went over and taught Froy on Saturday. Arlett was there as well. We watched the movie Finding Faith in Christ. We didn’t know how this would go with the three children. We were astonished when the children were glued to the TV and hardly made any noise during it. Froy wasn’t so sure that there is a God, but after the movie he said that he had chills up and down his spine. He said that he knew there was a God and that he had a son named Jesus Christ. It was an awesome moment. He said he had been reading the scriptures but I know it is hard for him to understand. He says he can’t put it down. We are so excited and he can’t wait to learn more!!!

I love you all so much. I am so thankful for this opportunity to serve my Heavenly Father! I am so thankful for the gospel. I know it is the truth and that we are greatly blessed through it. Please always live so that the Spirit can be your constant companion. It is well worth the sacrifice.

Love
Sister Comte