Three is Better than Two

Such a good week! We taught Savannah 3 times this week and we love her she is amazing! When I was 14 all I cared about was volleyball, boys and what I was going to wear to school. But she has been thinking a lot about what God wants her to do and how she should live her life. I was actually about 14 when I stopped going to church, and if I did go I wasn't happy about it. But Savannah is coming to church consistently, in fact she went to 2 different wards yesterday and she is meeting with us multiple times during the week. She is amazing. We taught her the Plan of Salvation this week and she was happy to finally have the questions, where did I come from? Where am I going? and What am I doing here? answered. I am so impressed by her desire to learn. I am impressed with any religious teenager at all actually. There are so many youth who are so devoted to their church and their way of worshipping and they love God so much and I think that is wonderful. For example, Jehova (is that how you spell that? I don't know) Witnesses expect so much from their youth, they go knock doors, they don't celebrate holidays and so much more and their youth do it! I would have quit! But they do it and I am so impressed by that. Anyway.... We also met with Linda this week who is a recovering alcoholic and I learned more from her than she did from me. Her mom was also an alcholic and one night a few years ago Linda's mom got really drunk and Linda had to drive to her house, clean her up, take care of her, clean up the house, and while she was driving home all she wanted was a Martini, she couldn't stop thinking about going home and having a martini. And then she thought, "WOW I just cleaned my drunk mother up and all I want is to drink alcohol" and then she had another thought, "well I am not as bad as her" and then she said she very clearly heard a voice say to her "yet" and she looked around in her car and wondered where the voice came from. She said she felt that it was from God and it just touched her and she decided that she needed to do something in her life to change and now she is completely devoted to Christ. She explained to us how addicting and destructive alcohol was in her life and I never fully understood the Word of Wisdom and how we aren't supposed to drink alcohol this week. But now I know, some people can drink and they are fine, they don't lose control of themselves they can have one beer and its fine. However, there are some who drink, like Linda, and it slowely begins to take control of their lives and they don't notice because it is so subtle and it gradually happens. Obviously there are some other reasons why we don't drink but I realized that is reason enough for me. I don't want to risk giving my life up to alcohol so I just won't do it and so now I understand why we follow the word of wisdom even more. But we taught her the Plan of Salvation as well and when we taught her about the spirit world and how people will have the opportunity to accept Chirst in the after life she was so relieved, because her parents never did accept Christ. I felt very prompted to share the Plan of Salvation with her and the whole lesson I was thinking why are we sharing this with her? Then I realized once we taught her about being able to accept the Gospel in the afterlife that is the reason why, she needed that knowledge. But way cool story! I don't know the scriptures at all, in fact I just found out there is a book in the Bible called Joshua so now you know that I am not a scriptorian. But Linda asked us, "where in the Bible does it say that we will be able to learn more in the afterlife?" and I had NO IDEA so I opened to a scripture in Acts and it didn't work haha I just randomly opened and felt prompted to read something and it mentioned the resurrection and then it led me to another scripture in 1 Peter chapter 1 and that didn't work either so I am thinking "wow I suck at listening to the spirit haha I think I am being led away from the scripture I need" then I decided to read the chapter headings or chapter summaries and in 1 peter 3 it talks about Christ teaching the people in the after life in spirit prision! So cool I am so happy to be a missionary. I still don't know why God trusts me to do this but I love being here and I love serving. We are in a trio right now and it is a lot of fun. Love you all! I am out of time have a great week.