Sister Kelsey Rook: Nebraska Omaha Mission

October 23, 2017

Week of Miracles!!! Plattsmouth Sisters:1..... Satan:0

Hi Family!!!!

Wow. I don't even know how to describe this week- it was absolutely crazy and incredible and everything else combined into one week! There were so many miracles every single day, if Heavenly Father's hand was in my life last week it was most definitely in my life this week!

So with Felicia being baptized on Saturday we wanted to make sure we saw her every single day, and that the lessons we had with her were so powerful! We had to go through all the lessons with her which is the fastest I have ever gone through them before! We knew Satan was going to do everything he could to prevent her from being baptized, and he almost did! It was super crazy!

Monday: We went over the "big commandments" I guess you could say. We taught Felicia the Law of Tithing and Fasting, Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. We had Sister Christensen with us and it was incredible fellowship! It was so awesome to see how excited Sister Ferrell was to live these commandments and the testimony that she already had from living them!

Tuesday: We taught her the Plan of Salvation in Sister Meneses' home. The spirit was so strong and it just gave her the extra comfort and strength that she needed throughout this week knowing that this is part of the plan that God has for her. She has been pretty stressed out with 2 boys (Thomas is 3 and Jacob is 2, and then she is pregnant with Cheryl and her due date is Nov 1) so her life has been super crazy and hectic and the boys were being more crazy than usual. So the Plan of Happiness was absolutely perfect for her!

Wednesday: We taught Felicia the Gospel of Jesus Christ and her husband Cliff was there! We also had a team up with us and she provided some incredible insight to them. Cliff was participating so much- he knows that he needs to be baptized and that the church is true- he just wants to really know if the Book of Mormon is true... and so he has decided that he is going to do an in depth study of it when he is deployed to Greenland for a year... we are still working on him though! We could tell Felicia was super stressed out with life and everything else, and that this lesson was what she and Cliff needed to hear!

Thursday: We taught the Restoration with Felicia, we watched the Restoration video. We tried so hard to get a team up with us this day- we had called at least 10 people and no one was available to come with us. Little did we know before the lesson that if we had had a team up, Felicia would not have opened up to us like she had. She told us that everyone in her family was trying to convince her to postpone the baptism, her kids have been so unusually tough this week and she didn't know if she could do it. She was so stressed out. We testified so powerfully of the Book of Mormon and how it could truly help her with her family if she had daily family prayer and scripture study. Sister Hamner and I decided we were going to fast for Felicia in the morning so hat she could have the strength to be baptized on Saturday.

Friday: We did a Book of Mormon read with her, we read 3 Nephi 11. It was so powerful! She later came to tell us that she had actually texted her mom around 1am saying she wanted to cancel the baptism and everything else that was going on... her mom responded to her telling her to say a prayer and to not postpone it- that this was the one thing in her life that was going to help her get through this. She knew that even though she was super frustrated when she texted that, that she needed to be baptized. And then she told us that she did family prayer and scripture study this morning and that it was the most peaceful that she had felt all week long! She knew that that was the reason she had a peaceful day!

Saturday: Felicia was able to be baptized! She told us that after we had left on Friday Cheryl was so active and she was having the worst contractions, but the good news is... she didn't have her baby yet and she was able to be confirmed on Sunday! The ward members did everything! We showed up about an hour early for the baptism and there was nothing that we could do because it was already done! The Plattsmouth Ward members are absolutely incredible!!

Sorry this is so long, but on Tuesday we also met with Kylie and Kyle and we really felt prompted that we needed to teach them the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we were a little confused because they needed to be taught the restoration and plan of salvation and everything else, but we followed the prompting and it was awesome! Kylie was crying through the whole thing and it completely pierced her heart.

This week was absolutely incredible! So many more miracles happened but this is already super long so I am so sorry! It strengthened my testimony so much knowing that Heavenly Father has provided people who are ready to make covenants with him. It also helped me to recognize that Satan is truly working 24/7 and he is doing all he can to make these people stop progressing, so we have to be doing all we can and more to help these investigators become strong and converted.

Well that is pretty much it! Sorry it is super long again! Thank you for all you do and have done! You are the absolute best! I love you so much! Have the best week possible!!

Love,

Sister Rook