This week has gone by so quickly, but it was so good!
Wednesday
was probably our busiest day. We went out with our Relief Society
President and visited some inactives with her. Afterwards we went to
lunch with her and her daughter who is an RM. It was so fun! We loved
talking to her daughter because she was so real about everything and
about what happened once she got home and transitioning and everything.
But she is still herself, which was nice.
We
also had our first interview with President Nakken. Can I just tell you
how great he and Sister Nakken are!? They are amazing and I love them.
I'm so excited. We asked them about iPads and they told us that they
really want them, but don't know when the mission is going to get them.
They asked when they were in the MTC and the tech people said that the
First Presidency wants every mission to have them. What they are working
on is HOW they are going to do that. There are over 500 missions in the
world (or something like that) and only 88 or so have iPads. But they
are working on it!
Story time! So we had a
former investigator named R** that we weren't going to see. Well, one
day this guy walks up to us in our complex and we learn that we are
talking to R**. We agreed to meet with him. The first couple of
meetings were so hard because it felt like he was just there to compare
and bash a little. (He has read the Bible 5-6 times and is very "to the
line" if that makes sense?) We were going to drop him the second lesson
and right before the lesson, in our prayer we told Heavenly Father if
that wasn't the right thing to do then don't let it come out of our
mouths...and it didn't. So we set up a third lesson with him. We decided
together that we were only going to read the Book of Mormon with him to
help him understand. (Previous missionaries had told him to read all
the standard works and that he couldn't pray until he read the whole
Book of Mormon and it's hard for him because the parts that aren't
similar to the Bible he doesn't understand). The third lesson totally
changed EVERYTHING. All we did was help him answer his questions he had
from the chapters he read in between meetings and the chapter we read
with him. The Spirit was so strong and the answers we gave him were
totally from Heavenly Father. We watched R**'s wall come down and I
could see him for who he was-a child of God who is just trying to learn
and understand. The Spirit was so strong. And we were able to understand
a lot of the confusion between us. R** believes a lot of what we know
already, he just uses different terminology for it, words that we
define differently.
He also came to a baptism
on Saturday. Our Ward Mission Leader ( who we LOVE!) came and was able
to talk to R** for a while as well. We have already seen R** change
just from taking the time to help him and try to understand him. We are
confident that he will one day know it's true.
Sister
A** (We celebrated her 1 year!!) and I have been talking a lot
about families this week though. We really feel like this ward is our
family and we love them. Anywhere we go we will always have family
because there will be a ward family there. In the bigger picture, we are
all part of Heavenly Father's family. And we probably promised each
other that we would find each other. The Gospel brings our family back
together. Our responsibility is to help each other get back home, is it
not? And there are those in our family who are looking for us. Just let
your light shine.
Thank you all for being examples to me. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for being family.
Remember: it's a good day
just keep swimming
God is good
xoxo,
Sister G
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| We celebrated with ice cream:) |
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