Well hello, yet another week has
passed. I get to turn 3 on Thursday! Whoo.
So this week has been kinda boring...well
at least it was slow and nothing to crazy or exciting happened...but it was
still good.
This week we received a referral of
someone that we usually get...and so we are like what the heck, who are you
guys talking to that she keeps getting referred?! who the heck is referring
her? she is a non-member in our area that does come to church…I guess basically
she is a "dry Mormon" except she doesn't want to give up her
coffee...which I learned some interesting facts about that I will share with
you later. Anyway well we are like
"God Doesn't Do Random" (a famous quote in our mission) and so we are
like we need to go see her, but at the same time we had so many different
changes in our schedule and we had not the slightest clue as to what we should
do. so we pulled over and decided to pray, it was getting towards the end of
the night and we had some "priorities" I guess but now we were like
okay crud what is more important. so I'm saying this prayer, and I don't know
why, but it is weird to pray in the car, so I will bow my head and close my
eyes, but occasionally I will look up and look around, I guess I'm just
paranoid. but anyway I'm saying a prayer, and I look up and there is this girl
walking toward us, and I was just like k whatever, but it was way cool because
all of the sudden I was kinda feeling the spirit, and then it was like HOLY
FLIP TALK TO THAT GIRL! haha so while I am noticing the spirit getting
incredibly strong I'm just sitting there all quiet and then I was like “We have
to talk to her!” so I am scrambling to get a card and I role my window down and
talk to her, I think I freaked her out, cuz you know nothing more sketchy than
someone giving you a card from their car...but she was super nice and anyway
nothing else happened. But it was way cool. No joke, the spirit truly does BURN
and my heart was like going nuts. It was awesome. Anyway we went and saw
that Non-memeber, we were praying about whether or not to go see her because
she told us earlier that "she wasn't ready yet" or didn't want to
talk to us so we just blew off the referrals that we had gotten since that
time. we went and saw her, she said she really appreciated the visit but she is
"fine" whatever. Get baptized.
We got 3 new investigators this
week, our mission is doing this big push to get 450 new investigators in like
14ish days. So we have prayed and fasted and all that. We had NO success and so
we are like what the flip where are we going to find these people? Then Boom, we got all 3 in one day. It was
cool. We get to go see one of them this week for our return appointment, so I
hope she is actually there.
We had a weird lesson with 2 of our
progressing investigators this week (we have 3 now, and one on date for
baptism...whoot!) it was intense. Naomiyah and Grace. Naomiyah had a question
the last time we met with them because we invited them to be baptized, and she
was like well I have already been baptized and so why isn't that enough? And
so we talked more about that and the priesthood. Well...they decided to bring a
friend along. We were already frazzled about the lesson and how we were gonna
teach it or WHAT we were gonna teach, we just taught about Christ and his
baptism and how he was baptized by priesthood authority, so we need to be too,
because he is the perfect example and etc etc. we got on talking about
john the baptist and this friend..who shall not be named...started to get into
this bible bash and was like well in john 1 it says that he is not a prophet
and this and that and we were like...yes. He is. I don't remember what Sister
Lebaron said but she whipped something out, and we were like AHHHH
whyyyyyy?!?!?! why are you here? Geeez. Then she was like why does he
call the churches abominable and all that stuff.. Oh my heck it was the most
uncomfortable lesson every. I then decided to dedicate my time to finding
scriptural back ups for John the Baptist. I hope that friend of theirs doesn't
tell them anything bad. Or...or I'm gonna be real mad! However, they are
keeping commitments and they watched some general conference.
But for all you RM's I wouldn't mind
some feedback as to HOW to teach about the priesthood. That is like struggle of
all struggles for me haha.
Transfers are coming up(Oct. 15)
sister LeBaron is certain she will leave, and is getting people to sign her
transfer journal, I told her I would laugh SO hard if she ended up staying.
SO... the coffee thing. So I haven't
look at the study myself, but this lady in our ward gave a talk about the word
of wisdom, and talked a TOOONN about coffee. She said that even though
you wash your coffee cup, there is always a stain that forms around the cup,
and it stains your teeth and all that. but we can clean that. and I was like if
that builds up even when you clean it…what the heck is building up inside your
body? we can't scrub the insides of our bodies with soap and water...
soo...yeah. Don’t drink coffee.
Conference. Conference was...THE
BOMB. Okay I don't think I had ever been so excited for it. But I loved
it, and just because I have already written you a novel (kudos to you if you
are still reading..) but something I thought was awesome was that there seemed
to be a pattern with commandment keeping and Following the Prophet, Joseph
Smith and the restoration. Also, Helaman 5:12 was quoted several times.
in the words of Uchtdorf "I think He knows something we don't"
I think okay what have these men been shown, what conversations have they
had with the lord that they are telling us these things? Guys, NOW, more than
ever, it is crucial that you have your own testimony of the Restored Gospel. I
don't care what people have told you, good or bad or what your pre-determined
thoughts are of the church, you need to act yourself. "spiritual Questions
REQUIRE spiritual answers -- FROM GOD" Don't take MY word for it, don't
take your friends word for it, your family, neighbor, etc, whether the church
is true or not. Study the Book of Mormon, Learn more about the Work that
Joseph Smith performed. Then PRAY and ask GOD, if it is true or not.
Another thing I have been thinking
about this week is Sacrifice and Salvation. Are we willing to put things before
our salvation? As a missionary, that is all we do is fight for people's
salvation. This is a literal war. Some people don't want to give up their
coffee, their cigarettes, their lustful desires, their lifestyle, anything.
Because that means they will have to change, and go to church and be tired in
the morning because they didn't have coffee or they have to be a part of an
"organized religion" and they have a problem with that, they want to
sleep, watch TV, play video games, hang out with their friends, instead of read
a verse in the scriptures, go to church or say a prayer.
well, your salvations on the line my
friend. "Must we Keep ALL of the commandments? My answer to this is
Simple: I think God Knows something We Don't" (Uchtdorf, Gen Womens
Broadcast ' living the gospel Joyful' ) God has given us a plan. That
plan is to bring us happiness and peace, success and ultimately Salvation.
Commandments are part of that plan. Therefore, commandments are not given
to us as restrictions; they are given to us to help us make correct choices so
we will find more joy in this life. They were not given to us to pick and
choose, we are to keep ALL of them. Yes. ALL. What are you willing to put
before your happiness? What are you willing to put before the lord? What are you
willing to put before your ETERNAL happiness? In my opinion, it is worth
it to have a hard time for a little bit, but then live in eternal bliss and
happiness. I hope the answer to those questions is nothing.
I always looked at people that some
considered "molly Mormons" or whatever, well, that isn't a bad
thing. The only reason we are here is because of god, so why shouldn't
our main focus BE god? what are your priorities?
Alma 22:18 :)
This week we get to see "Meet
The Mormons" then we have interviews.
Anyway. Long rant over…hope y'all
have a good week!
Adios
