Christmas time is Heeeeeeere 3/23/2015

I got a new companion, her name is ......wait for iiiiiiiiit...Sister CHRISTMAS!

Yes, I am serious, that is her last name and no, her first name isn't Mary :)

Things are starting to warm up here :) not to mention we met a lady while knocking on doors and she wanted to learn more about our faith! She was interested mainly about the Book of Mormon and where it came from! Oh blessings and good things are coming to Prosper with the help of some Christmas spirit :D (i could do this all day)

I also gained more of a perspective about obedience. From what I've seen it really has EVERYTHING to do with our agency. Plus, I learned that there is no such thing as free agency. Jesus Christ paid the price so that we could return to our Heavenly Father's presence after we die, even when some of us don't make much effort to be obedient to the commandments we've been given, including some who never got the chance to learn how to return to God's presence.That why Jesus Christ performed the Atonement, he gave his life so we ALL could be saved and know what we can do to live with them someday. In order to use our time wisely here we have to practice our agency and choose to obey the commandments of God and keep the covenants we make with Him. To help us to achieve this we need to be unified in the same goal of eternal life with our families in our time on earth.

The only way to become unified with our Heavenly Father is to align our wills to his. For example let use a goal such as World Peace, we all have to have it on the forefront of our minds and prioritize our lives to achieve that goal. Otherwise it will never completely happen. Becoming one with the Lord is a constant effort on each of our parts. I like to use this analogy: 

    We are all gears in a clock, if one of the gears doesn't choose to move in the right direction it can cause the rest of the gears to malfunction or even stop the whole clock (Like how our choices effect those around us). If a gear ever brakes or falls out of place, that where the clock maker comes into play. He mends the cracks and sets the gear back into place or in even in a better spot that he knows it will be needed to help the rest of the gears to keep moving in the right direction. But it's still up to us to keeping moving along. We get to decide if we want to be of use or just miss out on helping the clock of the world to keep ticking forward. 

Those were just my thoughts.

Hope your week was good! Let me know if I can ever do anything for any of you.

Remember! Keep Ticking Forward :) 

Love, Sister Baker

Love At Home 3/16n 2015

This week Sister Hixson goes home from her mission. In fact tomorrow is when I will get a new companion. I loved serving with Sister Hixson and enjoyed everything I learned from her. She was probably the sister that helped me open up more and have fun.  Because, like I've said before, it took me a while to realize that sharing the gospel is fun. 

Today we just moved into another member's home and It is amazing how different the Spirit feels. I know that every family is different and every home is different too, but no matter where you are when you feel the warmth of the Holy Ghost continually in a home it is beautiful and touch's your soul. I'ts fantastic to see how parents are the key in a home!  That when they are united as one in heart and mind (excuse the cheesiness) the whole air about them is glowing with the Holy Ghost. I'm glad wherever my family lived I got to grow up in a home that has that same love and joy that my parents welcome through having God as there first priority. 

I love my family and my friends that help me to discover who I am and what I stand for. I hope that who ever reads this will continue or even start to take the time to create a loving atmosphere at home because "In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e" -President Uchtdorf 

Loving the time I get to serve,

Sister Baker

P.s. I've been a missionary for 10 months!

My life is complete 3/10/2015

Random fact: I GOT TO HOLD A BABY PIG YESTERDAY :D 

My life is complete.

This week was basically normal, going out, working, trying to get out of the rain.  The only difference was that we went on exchanges with some other fellow sister missionaries. 

The highlight of this past week(besides the piglet) was learning about the "I Am" statement. A returned missionary showed me this in training and said it made all the difference in his mission and life so far. What an "I Am" statement entails is that it's a statement for your vision or goals of what you want to accomplish or to become. Elder Scott said that "You become what you do", so that's basically what this statement helps you to do.

 For example lets say you want to become compassionate so you decide: I am compassionate. With this you ask yourself, "how can I be compassionate?"  Then you think of ways to reach that goal, like "I'm going to show more compassion to my companion by giving them a compliment everyday", or anything that you can do to implement that trait or vision that you want to accomplish into your EVERYDAY plans. With those daily efforts, not only does your confidence become stronger, you become more sure that what you are doing is right. As your confidence builds, so does your defense against the power of the adversary to pull you away from your new "I Am" ability. 

So I loved learning about that and understanding how I can reach my goals while not lowering my standards or expectations of myself or feeling guilty about whether or not I know you are doing your best.  Hopefully this makes sense. If it does try it out see how it can change your week. I'm still working on finding my "I Am" and ways I can become i,t but just like in the scriptures, these things take a lot of pondering and a lot of praying, but it's always worth the effort.

I love y'all! Stay classy!

Love, 

Sister Baker

There's Snow Place Like Texas 3/2/2015

This week was slow with the weather and snow. Yet many good things came from it, especially on the subject of family history. We stayed at a part member family's home for a few hours waiting out the snow and because that is the only way we have been gaining a connection with that family. I showed the wife, a non member, familysearch.org and she was absorbed by it from the start. Then through her husband's account (he being a member) she was able to access Ancestry.com and her interest sky rocketed from there. She sat there for the rest of the day doing family history work!  She was enthralled and loved it so much. Through that she was able to come closer to her past and wanted to share it with her future generations.

Her son is the one that just got baptized and we know she felt the Spirit at the baptism. I may not get the chance to be here when she finally comes to a decision to be baptized, but I know that she does love the fruits of this church, because she was smiling every time she found another person to add to her family.

Another awesome way Family History helped us in our work was with a part member family that is amazing! The couple met at Disney World, and he was in the marines. He is hilarious and very kind. He isn't a member but they don't let that get in the way of being happy and good parents. We showed him the Mormon message "What I Found".  He was able to relate to it because of his family's military history and it seemed to bring family history in a positive light in their family. He talked about how he had kept a good journal while serving in the marines and one of his kids "said I want to read it!" It just made me happy to see how much the hearts of the children are turning to their fathers (Malachi 4:6). 

Special thanks to Sister Burnham! I got your postcard and it brought Thanks for letting me know about my friends upcoming wedding!  I can't believe Alivia's getting married! Tell her I said I love her and thanks for being an example of loving to serve God with all her heart, might, mind, and strength. She helped me to realize that their is no greater call then serving a mission as a sister.  :)

Until next time. I love you all and I hope that you continue to look for the day to day miracles because....HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES Y'ALL!

Love, 

Sister Baker