Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! It is such a wonderful time to be a missionary right now! It's my last week here in Post Falls and I leave for Temple Square on Wednesday morning. I am so grateful that I was sent here for my outbound because of the many people that I have met! This time here has really taught me the importance of members in missionary work. The Lord has told us in many conferences and in the Hastening the work of Salvation that it's not just the missionary's work, but it's our work. It's the Lord's work and this is how He wants us to do it. Both missionary and member, together. This time here has taught me the kind of member I need to be when I get home. In the last General Conference there was something said that really struck me. It was by Elder Nielsen of the 70. He said, "We need to be engaged as never before to match the excitement of our leaders and the commitment of our full-time missionaries. This work is not going to move forward in the Lord's intended way without us! As President Henry B. Eyring has said, 'Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.'" It really is His work and we must be fully committed to Him and do all we can to bring His children to Him. This is a great time to be on earth when the Gospel is in it's fullness here and we have the knowledge to live with our Father in Heaven. Now it's our duty to help others come to that knowledge so that we can see our brothers and sisters with God someday. We can do it if we ask for the Lord's help. "And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!" D&C 18:16. Nothing too amazing happened this week, just bringing souls unto Christ! ;) I just hope that I did what the Lord wanted me to do while I've been here in Post Falls, Idaho. Oh, a less active lady that we've been working with came to church yesterday! We actually haven't seen her for a week and she just came out of the blue!! It was truly amazing and I feel that she was one of the people that I needed to see while I was here! I love this work and I love this Gospel. I am thankful for Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice that He went through while on earth. I am so grateful for the scriptures. I am grateful for the Holy Ghost and the guidance that it provides. I am so grateful for cars because it's cold! I am also very grateful for prayer and that we have a way to communicate with our Father in Heaven!! I am also grateful for my family and the support that you all give me! Love you all!!!
 Sister Stolp

The Book is Blue

So I'm looking at my planner to see what has happened this week. One thing that happened was I went on exchanges and went to the Coeur d'Alene area. It is so pretty there and it's a fun little town. There is a beautiful lake with a resort that's in the middle and many rich people go there to have fun. I'm going to do that when I get rich! It was fun there and we saw many miracles. Oh my goodness and something most excellent happened on Saturday!!! Molly was baptized and all her sins were washed away! It was truly beautiful to see a daughter of God enter into the waters of baptism and make promises with her Heavenly Father! She was so nervous, but she said that it was a very special experience. Then on Sunday she was confirmed and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. She told us later that this was even better than the baptism which is great because she felt the Holy Ghost and she is doing awesome! I loved being there witness this great event and I will still keep in contact with her when I go back to Temple Square. I am so grateful that we have this wonderful way that we can return to our Father in Heaven and that way is through baptism. I love being a missionary so I can be the Lord's instrument in bringing souls unto Christ. There is a scripture that expresses how I feel. Alma 26:16 "Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel." I do know for a fact that this church is true and that this is the greatest work that we are doing! For the past couple transfers we have been reading Atonement articles as a mission and reading those has helped me understand the Atonement even more! There is a quote by James E. Faust that says, "Our salvation depends on believing in and accepting the Atonement. Such acceptance requires a continual effort to understand it more fully." I know that to be true and we can understand the Atonement more by reading about our Savior and by using the Atonement and repenting each day. I know that if we do this we will be blessed and we will see our Savior's Atonement change you if you let it. The Church is true; the Book is blue; and Moroni is still on the ball!
 Sister Stolp

The Most Epic Letter Ever!

Hey everyone!
This week has been good! It's been great weather because there's no snow yet!! I'm happy about that, but we do have the car for most of the week. We just ride our bikes on Sundays. So It's been fun and stressful getting Molly's baptism put together. We just had a training from our zone leaders about having a Christ centered baptism. So we have been trying to do just that We have picked very Christ centered hymns and the talk is about Jesus Christ and the musical number is about being like Jesus Christ and so it'll be good! The reason for this is so that the person being baptized will have a spiritual experience, but also any other investigator there or even less active there will have a spiritual experience as well. We want to have everyone there feel the spirit and you can't go wrong when you talk about Christ! We have had two people already ask us to come over for Thanksgiving. I'm almost sad that I won't be here for Thanksgiving! I will be flying to Temple Square the day before Thanksgiving! That's ok because Thanksgiving at T2 is fun! I hope that all of you are helping to feed the missionaries near you! So we still have been trying to meet all the less actives in our ward and there is this one lady who has children who are above 8 who have not been baptized yet. So we went there the other day and met her non member husband. He told us that she moved out because she wanted to live with all her other boyfriends. So he sounded pretty torn up about that and I said that we're missionaries and that we want to share a message about Jesus Christ because He can fix anything or something along those lines. But he said that he did want to learn more and so we're go back and teach him more! It's amazing what Christ can do when we let Him into our lives. I had a hard time letting Him into my life, but now I know that I need Him there always!! There's a scripture in Revelation 3:20 and it says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." When I read that I think of the picture where it shows Christ outside the door with no door handles. We need to open the door to let Him in! He can't come in if we don't let Him. I invite all of you to let Him into your lives and to keep Him there! I have invited Him in and it is the best feeling in the world to have Christ be the center of my life! I love my Savior and Friend, Jesus Christ and I love being on my mission!!
Love you all!

 Sister Stolp

Hi!

(So I just deleted what I wrote so I'll try to remember everything that was written.)
So a sad thing happened to one of our investigators, Bob, he got arrested for drunk driving and won't be out till January. I think he needs to learn a lesson. Also our other investigator Molly lives in Coeur d'Alene so we have to give her over to the missionaries who serve there. We were teaching her in her future mother in-law's house so we didn't know where she lived. Super sad, but it's for the best. I'm beginning to think that I won't see a baptism while I'm outbound. I'll be able to see Molly and Molly2 get baptized while I'm in Temple Square, though! So let me tell you about one of our investigators named Bob2. He is so awesome and I love him!!!! He is on felony probation or something like that and he can't be baptized till he's off of that and he can't even go to church so that's lame too! But we invited him to a baptism on Saturday and he said that he hadn't felt the Spirit that strong in a long time! I know that this work is the Lord's work! I have to just trust in Him that everything will work out especially with Molly! I'm just one of His servants and I help the work move forward. This is a great time for all of us to be alive, where we can have the fullness of the gospel at our fingertips with all these different ways to share the gospel! Our mission president has asked us to study the Atonement and he has given us some talks on the Atonement. I have gained a greater appreciation for my Savior and He is my best friend! I don't think I can put into words what I have come to feel for Jesus Christ. He is Everything and "we are to abide in Him permanently, unyieldingly, and steadfastly." I only hope that I can remain true to Him and always follow Him. "And this is the testimony last of all that I give, that He lives". I know that to be true. Love you all!! Sister Stolp