Dear Family &
Friends,
We have had an
incredible week! We have seen the fruit of our prayers and our labors! We have
picked up baptismal dates and investigators and now we can start using most of
our time for teaching yet still continue to find!
On Tuesday it was
literally miracle after miracle, after miracle! We first had lunch at Arby's
more downtown because that was where we were meeting our next appointment. We
ordered our food and went to sit down. Sister Reed went to the bathroom and I
sat there and waited to eat. Then the cashier came up to our table and he asked
"are ya'll trying to be nuns or something?" Haha I laughed and then
said no and explained who we were? He was so excited and then asked what our
purpose for sharing gospel was. We told him about the Book of Mormon and his
purpose in life. He shared his story about going to prison and now he was
working for .25 cents an hour and that he was looking for greater truth in his
life. He was so awesome that he wanted to learn more so we gave him a pamphlet
and our phone number and a Book of Mormon! He said he would gladly read it and
let us know what he thought! He was really excited about! So cool!
Then we had an
appointment at a coffee shop with some guy that really didn't want anything to
do with our message but we shared the gospel anyway. He had a lot of questions
and sat there and concluded that the Book of Mormon wasn't true, even though he
had never read it-go figure! Well we promised blessings and answers from doing
so and left, it's all we could do! We biked home in the rain and we had plans
to contact a less active that sister Reed had been trying to see for months!
She ended up being home! And welcomed us
in warmly! Sister Reed was so excited! We talked with her and ended up setting
time to go back and serve her! :D yay!
Then that same
night we saw brother coffin (a less active returning member) and taught him the
law of chastity which then Led us into a word of wisdom lesson and brother
coffin finally told us what substance was holding him back. It was one of the
most powerful lessons that we had ever had with him. He almost cried but as Sister
Reed and I bore testimony, we were crying ourselves :,) as we started walking
home for the night we realized that we had a miracle day and had made every
single goal that we had set up to have! Then not even a moment later Satan
steps in and has a random person call a crude name from his car while driving
past! Haha we laughed and said 'oh Satan, trying to ruin our happiness, not
going to work!'. Two minutes later the bus literally pulls up and we realize we
are able to get home on time! Yay! Loved that day!
We have been applying
as many of the trainings as we can remember and trying to also be obedient as
well, and as we have done so, every time we have repented some sort of blessing
or amazing thing happens and we knew it was from the hand of the lord. Also it
has helped us with following the spirit better and that even in itself has been
a great blessing. We have applied he Book of Mormon training in all our lessons
and most of the people we talk to and it has really invited people to really
understand the purpose of the Book of Mormon. We used it at a dinner
appointment and sought for a refferal and after we asked them who they knew
they said they know of quite a few people and proceeded to ask our advice on
how they could approach their friends and neighbors! It was awesome! They are
now working on their friends and we plan to follow up!
The leadership
training was awesome! I know Elder Kepishka was definitely inspired to say what
he said. The entire time I wanted to over step my boundaries and say exactly
what I thought should happen with the wards, etc.(that's my bad side, haha) but
I knew that I wanted to say something and put my voice there and silly enough I
was kinda praying to Heavenly Father and asking him what I should say and if I
could have an opportunity to say it. Then elder Kepishka asked for missionaries
to come up and recite the missionary purpose and oh man that was all I needed
haha. Kinda funny how something so simple and small of our desires does matter
to God! I know He answers righteous prayers.
We also had stake
conference yesterday and that was awesome! Elder Kepishka talked about the few
things we can do to be betters members of the church and make the work go along
faster. Here are some of my notes:
When it comes to the
gospel of Jesus Christ we have two key messages: Jesus Christ our savior and
the living son of the living God; and that he has overcome every obstacle that
we will ever go through. "If only in This life all we have obtained is
hope in Christ, we are miserable" but Jesus Christ gives hope to
salvation.
The second thing is
That Joseph smith is a prophet of God and that we have the
Reason we praise
Joseph smith, is because the things that we know about Jesus Christ is because
of Joseph smith. We would not have any of it if it were not for Joseph smith.
-If we ever have any
questions, we should go to the source.
-He does not leave us
in a dark world without any light!
-Behold, your house is
left unto you deselect=behold, I will leave your house (German translation)
-what other stones do
we throw?
-
Stone of indifference
-
Stone of rejection
-Stone of selection--> pick what we like and apply those and blend out the
other things (am I stoning the prophet right now?)
-1. We will be safe
and 2. Our faith will increase as we follow the prophet
As we serve others we
come to know the master
Life eternal is to
come to know God the father and his son Jesus Christ.
Memories=a life of
service, a life of love
AFTER (it's been about
seven months)
Also I got to see all
of my favorite members from the Richmond ward! They were at stake conference so
that was pretty fun :) I love all of those members! :) Also, I saw my BFF
SISTER HANNAH TWICE IN ONE WEEK!
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We found quite a few
new investigators this week as well but we went over to the Wilson's for dinner
and they were pleased to share that they had some referrals to give us on who
we could teach! We are going by this week to see them! We were teaching a
recent convert yesterday and after we got done we got the thought to ask her to
come to our next lesson :) so we all went to our appointment, knocked on the
door and likely she was asleep and her granddaughter answered the door and we
asked to teach her! She said yes and we did so. She was awesome! We set a
baptismal date with her for January 16- she then said that that was two days
before her birthday! Inspire!
This week was just
incredible! I was so excited for all that the lord blessed us with and now we
are ready for another crazy one!
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