Family and Friends!!

Family and Friends!!

     Wow! what a week! We have been crazy busy trying to get everything done.... Oh but before all of that, I shoveled snow for the first time on Saturday!! It was pretty exciting and the White's were shocked. Apparently people here know where St. George is but they don't know that it is a desert that doesn't ever see enough snow to need to shovel it... It has been cold and very snowy the past few days but I think I will survive... It would be a lot easier to survive though if there was less wind! Ah! I tell you what Colorado is always windy! But this week has been great! Mostly we have been doing ATM's (assisting the members) where we help them with mission plans for themselves and finding people in their lives that they can help. One thing I have noticed this week is that I apparently need to pray more... out of the 20 lessons we taught I can count on one hand the times I wasn't the one called on to pray. At first I thought it was because Sister Horrocks was asking who they wanted to pray so I decided I needed to start asking but that has made no difference. In fact the times she has been the one called on to pray have been in the lessons that we have taught with that person before so they felt awkward calling me to pray two lessons in a row. I even got called on to pray in Relief Society yesterday! So I have said a LOT of prayers this week!! But that alright, more blessings!! On Wednesday we went up to UCCS the college up here and stood at their free speech corner (which was outside and freezing!!) and I got to practice ITL's which means inviting to learn... its a fancy way of saying street contacting. I'm really good at saying 'hi' to people but I didn't talk anymore than that. I'm working on it though! Its my goal for this week:) Especially, since it is spring break for the schools down here so our best bet in finding people to teach will be tracting. We also have an appointment with a girl that Sister Horrocks contacted at UCCS, her name is Kacie and she seems super awesome! So we are praying that she is open to the gospel. Also Wednesday night we were asked to go to a Cadet social and well socialize with the cadets. It was fun we got to know a lot of new people from all 3 YSA wards in Colorado Springs. In fact, a couple of the cadets served in Tokyo Japan with my Japanese tutor from Snow College! Crazy right? We also got to meet with our investigator Anthony, he is stubborn. He doesn't want to pray to know if the gospel is true he kept saying that if it was true it would be manifest to him by the spirit therefore prayer was unnecessary. So, we had decided to go in and just read a chapter from the Book of Mormon with him, we were going to read on faith. But! Sister Horrocks decided that we should read from where he was at in his reading. It just so happened that he was in 1 Nephi 15. Well, it just so happens that in 1 Nephi 15:11 it says "Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said? --If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things will be made known unto you." It was awesome!! Unfortunately, he leaves for basic training in a little over 2 weeks. So even if he did accept our invitation of baptism he wouldn't be able to be baptized until much later... You have to go to church for 3 Sundays in order to be ready for baptism and he has only been once. He missed yesterdays service... But keep him in your prayers. I think he knows this is what is right he just doesn't want to act on it yet.. Anyways, sorry this letter is so long! I will let you go. But before I do I just want to share a scripture in 2 Nephi 26:28 and it is talking about Christ "Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they should not partake of his goodness? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but all men are privileged one like unto the other, and none are forbidden." we all have been given the same privilege and invitation and that is to come unto Christ. So I challenge you all to keep a gratitude journal, to look for 3 things each day that Christ has given you in your life and then pray to thank him for those blessings:) I love you all!!

Love,

Sister Krista Bice