Week 44- Galentine's Day! & 10 months!

10 Months today!

Hello everyone! Crazy to think that 10 months ago today I was heading to the MTC. WOW! This has been quite the exciting week! Good news is that we got a new senior couple, the Purcells, brand new to the mission (and from Tremonton, Utah)! They are really sweet and still adjusting to crazy Massena life but they'll get used to it ;).

Styling our Valentine's monster masks.

It was also Valentine's day! It was more eventful than it was when I wasn't a missionary Haha . We handed out some chocolates and such and had some lessons. We visited with a person we are teaching, and her sons wanted to give us cute valentines.  One of them was a monster mask Haha. Then her kitten tried to east our hair so that was exciting. 

Another crazy moment was when a car pulled up to us as we were contacting some people and asked if we wanted to exchange literature. We laughed and gave them all we had which was a card and then looked at what they gave us, which was from a local Baptist church, and it was this cartoon book bashing the Catholic Church! A lot of their points of doctrine were congruent with our beliefs, but it was sad knowing that Heavenly Father wouldn't want us to promote hate, but he would want us to show love and kindness towards all. 

We had a really powerful lesson with a recent convert last night on faith in Jesus Christ. He has been going through some rough things lately and so we tried to share the most hopeful message that we could: that Jesus Christ loves us and suffered for every anguish we may experience so that we are never alone. With faith and trust that he is there and understands, comes healing. I know that to be true! I'd invite you all to watch the video "Mountains to Climb" this week. It is a message that has often touched my heart!

Love,  Sister Potts 

Here's a picture of the Nature Center we volunteer at.

Fun times!

FUN FACTS:

1. Shortly BEFORE the translation of the Book of Mormon was complete, Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer went into the woods behind the Whitmer home. 

2. They knelt down in prayer and went around, each offering one in a circle. 

3. After 2 prayers each, Martin Harris (who had been forgiven but still felt very badly about losing the lost manuscript pages)  stood up and said that it was his fault nothing was happening and left. 

4. The rest continued praying, and shortly an angel appeared holding the golden plates and turned the pages one by one. They also heard the voice of the Lord testify that the translation of the plates was correct, and they were to testify of it to the world. 

5. Joseph found Martin praying a ways off and knelt with him in prayer. Martin was able to have the same miraculous experience as the others!