HELLO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH OH MY GOODNESS!! Being here has really opened my eyes to how lucky I am to have such an amazing family. God is so good to us!!!
Well. I would like to start off by saying that literally EVERY day here goes by REALLy REALLY fast. My mission will be over with before I know it! ah. so crazy. Well, we got THREE new investigators this week!! WAHOO!!!!! I will talk about the three righhhttt now.
Cynthia: Cynthia is great. We love her. She is this cute older lady whose husband was interested in the church, but recently passed away. We taught her this past Saturday and gave her the first lesson about the restoration. She was honestly teaching us because she kept saying, "yeah. I don't get why all the preachers need the money when they preach. They should preach because they love Jesus." and then she told us that she has always wanted to be baptized by immersion because she thinks it's the right thing to do because Jesus did it that way. She just gets it. I recited the first vision to her and she just closed her eyes and smiled when I said it and kept saying, "mmmhmmm. yes Jesus Lord. Yes Jesus" She is one of my favorite people ever. I just love all the people here. She has such great faith and is coming to church with us this next Sunday!!!
Betty: We met Betty while tracting. We knocked on her door and she didn't even ask who we were. She just let us in and started to ask us questions. She said that there was a light of Christ in us and it was obvious. She started to talk about how she has been given the Book of Mormon, but she thinks it would be a sin to read it because it's not the Bible. We began to explain to her that it is another testament of Jesus Christ. Sister Casperson and I started teaching her the restoration and it was REALLY going well and the spirit was so strong and then.. WHAM. The door opens and her two crazy sons walk in and start talking and she started to tell us to come back another time because the football game was about to start. The lesson was going so so well, but it has given us the opportunity to go home and study the things that we need to teach her. She knows that the bible has gaps, she just doesn't understand the need for the Book of Mormon.
Shirley: Shirley is great!! We walked up to her home and she opened the door before we knocked and said that we had a unique message of Jesus Christ for her. She is in her late 60's. We gave her a pamphlet to read and asked if we could come back later to teach her and she agreed that she would. So great. So, last Tuesday, we taught her the first lesson and loved it! Her husband joined in on the lesson, but his confidence was low with reading and praying about the Book of Mormon because he can't read. We asked Shirley if she would read it to him at night and if they would both pray about it. Shirley seems more ready than him, but that's alright. We will work on him!!! She came to our scripture reading class that we have every Wednesday night and she LOVED it!!!! yay!! and she also came to church yesterday so WAHOOO!!!!!
We also knocked on this door in the trailer park area and talked to a man who was super nice and said that his two kids were just "saved" and baptized and that he is just so happy. Then, Sister Casperson said, "yeah that's great!! well. is there anyone in the area that would be interested in our message about Jesus Christ?" and I just thought to myself, "no. HE NEEDS this message." So after he talked about the woman down the street, I quickly said, "Do you mind if we come back and just share our message about Jesus Christ with you?" He said that he would love to!!!!!
I have come to realize that those who are more humble are those that are really ready to here this gospel.
Heavenly Father is preparing so many people here in Clanton!!!!
I am so grateful to be here. I really am. I love being a missionary!!!!!! It really is the best feeling ever to wear my tag with my name on it and having "Jesus Christ" right next to my name!!!
We had a branch pool party on Saturday which was fun!! I got hit in the head with a football as I was talking to a lady from the branch and now that is the joke going around the branch. so fun. hahha.
I went to the Birmingham temple this past Friday which was GRAND!!!! It is the SMALLEST TEMPLE in the world, but I loved it anyway. Definitely was much needed!!!
Oh. MISS DAISY IS GOING TO THE TEMPLE AT THE END OF THIS MONTH!!! She is a sweet old lady who got baptized 5 years ago. She is kind of nervous and unsure, but Sister Casperson and I read out of a temple prep book with her to make her feel at peace! We got permission from President Hanks to go with her that day! SO EXCITED:)
Speaking of President Hanks, I love him. I love him and Sister Hanks so much!!! They are amazing!!!! :)
I have felt the spirit so much here on my mission. Every time I talk about the restoration with an investigator, I just get chills and think to myself, "this gospel just makes sense." gah. I love it so much!!!!!
# of bug bites currently on my arms and legs: 15
# of times I've said "y'all": 10
# of times I've been called "honey child" or "baby": 20
# of hugs I've received: A MILLION!!!!
# of times I've been called a Jehovah Witness: 2
# of times I've been called a nun: 1
No comments:
Post a Comment