A Bittersweet Week!

These past few weeks have been crazy busy but good! First of all, transfers were last week and Sister Clough left me! It was super unexpected and we were literally so heartbroken.  6 weeks was not long enough, but she'll be one of my besties for life so it will be okay. I really am just so grateful for her- she taught me so much about loving big and hard work and being an overall genuine and Christ-like person- I will miss her!! But on another note. I got a new comp, Sister Newbold! We came out together and we actually lived in the same building up at USU and had lots of mutual friends so that's pretty cool!! We've been havin fun and doing our best to figure out the area together! We've seen lots of cool miracles about God's perfect timing and how he really is just SO in the details. 
 
The highlight of this week was definitely Saturday because Willie and Paolo got baptized!!! Willie is  the sweetest older man who has the biggest desire to follow God. He is  so willing to do whatever it takes to align his will with God's. As he always says he wants to "Put God in first place". His desire to be baptized came from a place of wanting to please God and do the things that will allow him to have eternal life in the penthouse (celestial kingdom haha.) Paolo was a guy from my first area. I met him one of my first weeks on the mission- he was outside working and I just felt like we needed to go and talk to him. His journey to baptism took a little bit longer and there were a lot of ups and downs but his desire to be baptized came from wanting to feel seen and known by his Savior and have a personal relationship with Him. I was able to join Paolo's baptism over zoom and it was just so cool to see that full circle moment with him. Both baptisms were amazing and I learned SO much from both people about what it means to ask in faith and act in faith. Watching their countenances and demeanors change as they came to know Jesus Christ and follow His perfect example was such a special experience.
 
So this week got me thinking about what it really means to be baptized and my favorite explanation is that we enter into the fold of God. Through our covenants we can enter into the rest that comes from God and our hearts are literally changed!
 
"You are a covenant member of the Church of Jesus Christ. A great change began in your heart when you came into the Church. You made a covenant, and you received a promise that began changing your very nature."
   -Henry B Eyring 
 
MOSIAH 18:8-9
And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light; 9 Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life.
 
I love you all. Miss you so much!
Love,
Sister Campbell
eden.campbell@missionary.org







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