Well, it's been another crazy week! Can you believe that tomorrow is my five month mark? Shoot, I almost have a year left. I'm starting to feel...old. No, just kidding I still feel like I came out yesterday. :)
It was a really good week! We are looking for more people to
teach! We were able to meet with X and Y and we had a really good
lesson with them. They've had a lot of the lessons, but still feel like they
haven't received a definite answer that this is the true church. We were able
to teach about the Book of Mormon and how one of it's purposes is to come to
know for ourselves that this church is true. If the Book of Mormon is true,
then Joseph Smith was a prophet, and this church is God's church. Before I came
on my mission I hadn't really thought of that as one of the purposes of the
Book of Mormon, but isn't it neat? All we have to do is read from it, ponder
it, and pray about it with real sincerity and intent, and then we get an
answer. It's brilliant! And we can do it over and over again.The spirit was so
strong, and they committed to read and pray every day. We asked them that if
they got an answer and knew that this was true if they would get baptized.
X answered yes right away, but Y was hesitant and said that she would
eventually. Apparently her Grandmother might get offended if she joined the
church. We have been praying that X and Y get an answer and that Y's Grandmother's heart will be softened. We're excited for the progress
that they're making! And we hope that they can have the faith to move forward
and do what is right!
Unfortunately we weren't able to meet with Z this
week because she was sick. :( Bummer. We're hoping she gets better soon!
Thank you so much for praying for Sister Winert, and Sister
Morones! I heard from Sister Winert, and things are going better. They found
out that it's a stage 2 tumor which means that it is slow growing, which is
good! I was happy to hear that things are going good!
We started volunteering at the Library this week! I think
you might understand how much I enjoy that. :) Sister Riley doesn't like it as
much. Haha! They said that they have a hard time getting volunteers there, and
I was grumpy because remember how I tried to volunteer at the Springville
Library and they said they didn't need any more volunteers? Ha! well now I get
my chance! :) We go once a week, and we're hoping to find more people that
are interested in learning about the Gospel through this.
So our good old pal V left yesterday! Guess where he's
moving to? Payson! Haha! Sister Riley and I said that we're going to visit him
when we both get back from our missions, since he's about two minutes away from
home! We were able to have a good lesson with him on Friday, and we made him
promise to attend temple prep. class when he got there. We asked if he needed
any help getting ready to move, and he said, "Well I've got most of it
done. The only thing I can think of is to get the dog washed." So on
Saturday we went over and washed his dog named Tibby...that dog had not had a
bath for a very, very long time. It was fun. :)
We also got to go to a ward baptism on Saturday! One of the
families in our ward thought it would be a good idea if the missionaries came
and gave their son the lessons before he got baptized. So for the past couple
weeks we've been able to teach him, and then we went to his baptism! Super fun!
It was such a sweet baptism. The spirit was definitely there! He's a great
little kid, and he's really good at card tricks! He's got a new one for us
every time! :)
Mom asked what the 40-day fast was! It's awesome! So our ward
is fasting for 40 days. Every day a family has signed up to fast for
missionary experiences. We get to meet with them the day before they fast and
talk to them about the purpose, and the blessings of it. It's been going well!
I've loved how this ward has been willing to step up and reach out of their
comfort zone! We were able to find and teach Amanda when the ward did this in
Ontario. :) When we meet with them we show them a video called "A Priest's
Duty" I think that is what it's called. It's on the Hastening the Work
website! They've got some really great videos on there, but I especially like
this one. It's about a kid named Hector. You should look it up, and tell me
what you think!
Later on Saturday we were able to go to Rancho Cucamonga for
the first Sister's Meeting of our Mission! There's about 50 of us, and it was
so fun! We met before the Women's broadcast. We had some lunch, and had a guest
speaker come. She's a therapist that talked to us about having a good comp.
inventory. Ask Spencer what that is. :) Then we had our Sister Training Leaders
give us a few trainings which was awesome! They were great! And then we were
able to watch the broadcast which was also great! What I got most out of it was
that when we keep our covenants we our given spiritual power, and we are safe.
Covenants are so, so important. They bind us to our Heavenly
Father. When President Monson spoke I just had such a feeling of calm come
over me. I know that he is the prophet of the Lord on the earth today. How blessed
we are to have a prophet. I'm so grateful.
Yesterday President and Sister Hobbs showed up at our
Sacrament Meeting unexpectedly! :) That made me a little (lot of) nervous
but it was fun! I like them both an awful lot. I can't wait for you guys to
meet them someday. :)
This week I've been learning to rely on the Lord more.
Missionary work is really His work, and we can't do it without Him. We can't
teach without having His spirit with us. All of the people in the world are His
children, and he knows exactly what they need. Realizing that has been so
humbling. I'm realizing that I'm not going to understand everything in this
life, but there are some things that I do know and that's enough for now. He's
there for us when we need Him, He's patient with us, and He always gives
us what is best. I know that He's been giving me experiences that I've needed
to have in order to learn and grow. We talked about in the Sister's Meeting how
going on a Mission really takes all of your weaknesses and lays them out on the
table, and one by one you learn how to improve at them. Or all at once
sometimes. :) Sometimes this is a hard experience, but I wouldn't trade it for
anything. There are things that I've been learning on my Mission that I know I
wouldn't have been able to learn any other way. I know that I'm supposed to be
here, and I'm so happy and grateful to be here. :)
Welp, that was my week! Also, who's super excited for
Conference this weekend?? ME, PICK ME! This is like the Super Bowl for
missionaries. :) We're hoping that X, Y, and Z can come and
watch at least one session with us. When you really think about it, Conference
is a really special experience. All of the members around the whole world get
to hear the Prophet and Apostles and other church leaders speak. "How neat
is that?"
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