November 17 Email

Wow! another great week of teaching and learning! I really loved zone conference...President is so inspired....the things he told us were answers to questions i have been pondering. Can i just tell you how much i love studying....its like theres never enough time...the scriptures have become a treasure in my heart and when i read them it feels me with courage to go and do the things the Lord has asked me to do. We also had stake conference this week and it was so great to see so many faithful saints out here in this worldly part of the world. There is alot of excitement about the temple being built.....and i am so happy that i will be able to be here when it opens. and the blessings from the temple being in the area is already changing things. The number of baptisms in BC has had a dramatic increase and is on the rise. Its really neat to see Gods power and miracles here.
Please pray for Larry....he was doing so good but Deanna called us on Friday really sad because Larry went on a drinking binge....and he was finally getting off of the Boos. But hopefully this will be the last time cuz he will realize it does not bring him happiness.... Deanna went through the same thing and she came out strong so i am sure Larry will be able to as well....and still be baptised in December.
Well we are getting some amazing refferals and teaching all kinds of different people..... We taught a man from Sri Lanka yesterday....he was just eating it up....also we will be teaching a man named Rudy from the persian gulf who is ready to be baptised. And a really neat thing... we were teaching our investigator Mel at a members house and a construction worker was fixing her door..... we introduced oursleves and then he left before i could talk to him about the gospel....and i was like dang i should have said something...but then he came in aagin because he forgot something....wow....so we ended up getting his number.... well we taught him on thursday and it went so well! He told us that though he was catholic there was still something missing in his life! Thats a great thing to hear as a missionary.....bingo! So we have another appointment....his name is Fernando and his is from El Salvador.....Yeah isnt it great how many differnt kind of people we get to meet with!? also an Iranian lady from english class invited us over for lunch. so we mad persian food together and talked about Jesus Christ because she is interested in becoming Christian! Wow sooo things have really taken off here and it is so fun and wonderful...
I love testifying to so many of Gods children here on this earth....also something that president has taught us to do is when ever we finish an appointment we explain to them about satan and how he will try harder to tempt them and lead them astray from the truth.....we have to do this because i cant explain to you how hard it is to help people remeber what they felt with how hard satan is working on them here....it can cause great dissapointment sometimes....but we all know that the Lord is stronger...we are on the winning side! We must stay close to the Lord in these latter days! Well the church is truer ever! Christ is our Savior!
Love, Sister Flake