Hi Mom!

  I'm so glad you got my package. It sounds like you are doing well. Did you get the house put back together yet? That's awesome that you were able to do visits with the Stake Relief Society Presidency. I haven't been able to go shopping for clothes yet.

  This week has been great! A lady in our ward, Sister Russell, invited her daughter-in-law, Amy, to learn about the Gospel and she said yes. We taught her this week and she is awesome!! She is searching for truth because she wants her twin girls to know who God is. She doesn't feel like she knows how to teach them who God is and why it's important to believe in Him. She wants so badly to find the truth. When we were talking to her about Joseph Smith she compared herself to him. She said, "Wow, that's kind of like me." It's awesome that she recognized a little bit of herself in Joseph Smith. It was a powerful lesson and she wants to learn more. She lives in the Boston Mission but her Mother-in-law lives in our mission. Eventually we are going to try to get her to meet the missionaries down there.

  We met with Ashley again this week. She has asked us why we pray. We focused the whole lesson on prayer and why we pray. She told us that she knows God answers her prayers. We asked her to pray every morning and every night and she said she would. She told us that she forgets to pray sometimes. We made a sign with her to remind her to pray every morning and every night. She was really excited about it! I have noticed that people really have to see how the gospel applies in their lives for them to care about learning more. The gospel is applicable to everyone. The gospel can help any one in any situation.

  This week I have been studying a question that one of our investigators asked us. She asked why does God allow suffering and evil to occur? 2 Nephi 2 answers that question very plainly. There must be opposition in all things! We can't know happiness without sorrow. I was also studying in the Bible Dictionary about the book of Job. Job had to suffer a lot but he never lost faith. Job would not have been able to endure his trials without God's help. Affliction is for experience, discipline, and instruction. I know that to be true!! There is growth when we are being tested or tried. We have to go through the Refiner's fire in order to become the people that He needs us to be! I love you so much!!! Have a great week!!!

   Love,

     Sister Griffin