Learning From The Master Planner 5/25/2015

We got to go to the Dallas Temple this week with all the missionaries in my area of Frisco and it was wonderful! I loved getting to go to the temple. It was so peaceful and I got answers to some questions I've had while serving my mission here in Frisco. 

We also did a lot of service helping a family move into there newly renovated house which a year ago was struck by lightning while they were gone on a trip and a lot of it burned down. So it was fun getting to help them put all there new silverware and kids beds and furniture in. We got to help put books away in their library and they laughed at how few books they had with the mass amounts of shelves they have. The kids loved getting to come and see their house all put back together and redesigned as well. It was amazing to see how many members of the church came to help them unpack and settle in. They had a lot of support during this time and they are doing very well.

Besides the mass amounts of rain and the Missionary Meeting we had, last week was good in its routine of bringing others closer to Christ which is always a good note to end on :)

I love you all and add something my parents taught me that's always good to remember: everything has a place and everything has it's order.

Love, Sister Baker

Here is the Dallas Temple. Its beautiful in the rain.

and in honor of memorial day a scripture case I made our investigator last week

One Year Older and Wiser Too! 5/18/15

I've officially been a missionary for 1 year! I made it! Now it seems like the time is flying. I'm so grateful I get to serve the Lord and serve here in Texas!

We had the amazing and astonishing opportunity to invite someone to be baptized yesterday. His name is Travis and he's in his 20's I believe. His friend Rache,l who was a less active member, brought Travis to church last Sunday. Then yesterday he said that he has been looking for a purpose in life and something to bring him happiness. As we taught our lesson, I asked him near the end of it 'What would it mean to you if these things are true?' and he said the most astonishing word that brought the Spirit into the room with full force instantly.

He said "Everything".

Through tears we promised him that he would find what he was searching for which was happiness and a purpose and we set a baptismal date for June 12 and he agreed to it.

I felt that getting to teach him was an answer to my prayers, to be able to share the gospel with someone that actually was looking for it. It is a blessing to get to be in the YSA ward and get to witness and take part in helping not just his soul come closer to Christ, but mine as well.

I couldn't ask for anything be​tter.

I love you all so much and I hope you help one soul come closer to our Savior and Redeemer this week. Expect Miracles and they will surprise you when you least expect them, hilariously enough.

Aiming True and Flying High,

Sister Baker

Here we have my companion having a stare off with the members cat, Leo.

here is me with my Look who's 1 hat (Thanks Dad and Mom) :)

And here is my companion and I's Love fern (wheat grass but it still represents our companionship love :D)

Frisco Is a Go 5/4/2015

I have loved this past week here in Frisco. I am over the Frisco 6 and YSA wards here :) The Frisco 6th Ward has so many nice members and all very diligent in living the standards of the gospel, and in doing so they love to share it with others, especially the Young Single Adults Ward. In fact spending time with the YSA Ward has been the most entertaining, loving, and spiritual experience so far of this week. 

The one of YSA members actually invited a friend to come to church. Even from the start I could tell their friend Nick was feeling the Spirit during the church meeting. He even came to the YSA Devotional (which was amazing for those who haven't seen i)t. The story Elder Robbins shared about the man who read the Book of Mormon was the one he shared with us the missionaries here when he came with Elder Russell M. Nelson!

Nick really wants to turn things around in his life, he's been through a lot, but that's not going to stop him from becoming better and overcoming addiction problems, he seriously is the coolest and he's only 18 years old.

Also we got to have dinner at a members house and she showed the most impactful pictures to me and my new companion Sister Awerkamp. It's of a marine who is a member of our Church. It's of him while he was training in Okinawa and it is worth 1,000 words and it just punches my heart spiritually with a sense of an appreciation and excitement towards how important the Book of Mormon really is. I'll attach them below.

I love getting to be here in Frisco and look forward to see what it is I can do to serve the Lord and to help his children return back to Him.

I love all of you! If you need to know my new address you can email me or my Mom, or you can just send anything to the Texas Dallas Mission Office Address.

Love, Sister Baker

P.S.: the members we live with have two cats and one of them is Grumpy Cat's cousin!

Aim True Fly True 5/11/15

Now that I have about 6 months left of my mission I'm starting to undertake a new vision for myself as a missionary. A vision of what and who I want to become when I finish my mission and go back to Utah. I gained the inspiration for my new vision during a Relief Society lesson during church when the teacher asked, "What does it mean to be true?" and then she gave an analogy of an arrow and how people used to say 'may your arrow fly true' meaning may you hit your target. That kinda struck an arrow to my mind and that is how I found my new mission vision.

Mothers Day was great except it started off with a Tornado Warning...

We were getting ready to go to Mission Preparation Class (Helping young members prepare for their missions),when I heard the sirens. I told my companion to listen and after a few moments she heard it too. Our first reaction was, "so tha'ts what a Tornado Warning sounds like".  Then it turned into, "OH that's a TORNADO WARNING!"  Our members told us that we would be fine because they checked the weather report and they said there was a slim possibility that it could form a tornado. So that's why the sirens went off. The siren ended pretty quickly and we went on our way to the church and we were safe the rest of the day. So now I can say I heard the Tornado Warning while I was in Texas :)

Something else that happened this week we got to help one of our investigators throw away his harmful substances and he is still clean!!! (He's the one with the gun).

 oh and it was also my companions half way mark on her mission!

So I hope you all had a great mothers day and I love you so much!!!

Love, Sister Baker