Our God is an Awesome God... : )

This last week was flippin awesome! Casey is still getting baptized on the 5th. Pray for her and her family. There were a lot of Less Active members that we have been working with at church on Sunday! I tell you what, it is almost more exciting when a less-active member darkens the door to the church than when someone comes for the first time.
Lots of missionaries have been working with the Selby Family over the last year. They are the sweetest family I have ever met. The Spirit is very strong in their home even though only the father is a member. He came to church on Sunday and bore his testimony for the first time. Sister Williams and I cried and cried. We were so happy! I love that family so much.
Another man that was baptized a year ago November got up and bore his testimony for the first time. His wife has been a faithful member of the church for 22 years and never dreamed that her husband would join. He grew up Catholic and has Italian blood in him. It was one of the most sincere testimonies that I have ever heard. He got up and said that he would never say anything or testify of anything that he didn't know was true. In his testimony he thanked the ward for all that they have done for his family over the last several years. He said that he didn't have a testimony of many things in the church, but he knew that we were the most Christ like people that he had ever known. Of course we cried.
The South has been so good for me. It is interesting how every mission varies. There is difficulty in every form in the varying missions around the world. In the South, you have to KNOW the gospel: both in your heart and in your head. Every little piece that we teach is picked apart by the scholars and Christians that I run into daily. It is teaching me to know my religion. I have a much firmer testimony of the things that I knew in my heart before I came. I know that all the truth was restored to the earth through the prophet Joseph Smith in the 1800s. I know that this is Christ's Church just as he set it up on the earth! We have the fullness. I am pretty sure that I will be crying again at General Conference this weekend. It is so great to see so many that I know believe the same things that we teach everyday. There is so much strength, the Spirit is so strong. I never knew what I had; funny how that is always the way.
I love yall!
-Sister Thacker