December 22, 2008 Email

Hello!
Its been another great week! We have been really blessed! The ward here is amazing and is taking such good care of us. We have seen more miracles but we have also had the adversary in our face trying to get us down but together sis. Anderson and i keep each other up and positive.
There has been alot of snow and yes we tract in it! It is invigorating! The spirit keeps us warm or at least helps us keep our thoughts off the fact that our toes our numb. We realized we need boots because our shoes keep filling up with snow so we will go buy some today....lots of people feel bad for us but not so many let us in. Ha Ha.....also people are so busy celebrating Christmas that they dont have time to hear a message about why we have Christmas. Isn't it ironic? Well it does not matter cuz we just keep working hard and we have had some really neat experiences and are still setting up appointments with many people for after the holidays. But untill then we will continue tracting! wow i am learning great things about perserverance and prayer! President has given sister Anderson and I the special assignment of figuring out how to get the "im allright Jack" people to listen to the message we have...so please let us know if you have any ideas on how to help the people who are content with thier life as it is to have a desire for the gospel in thier lives... That is our mission right now....President told us he wants us to become universal teachers so that we can convince anyone that they need the gospel......he has actually asked us to be "traveling sisters" so next tranfer he will send us all over the mission to do exchanges with all the sisters so that the sisters can get as much training as the elders do. That will be a really neat experience. We actually spent an hour with President at zone confrence talking about these ideas. He is such an inspired man. He also gave us blessings. I am so grateful for the Priesthood.
well i almost forgot but on Tuesday we set a baptism date with a women named June. She is a single women with two kids. She loves volunteering and serving. She was a refferal from the spanish elders. She went to a Christmas concert at the church and felt the spirit so strong that she went the next night too. The sisters taught her the first lesson and she knew it was all true. So we taught her again. we cleared up some questions and the spirit was so strong it was almost tangible! Then we set the date for January 18. Wow what a neat women. And Satan has been working on her ever since but she is overcoming because she knows what she felt is real. Wow! It is such a neat thing to feel the holy Ghost work through you. I know this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ!
Love, Sister Flake