This week has been long and crazy, we haven't had too much going on,
just a lot of finding, there's a special character that is built when
you talk to people. Especially when they make you a "Hiss and a
byword" I love it. Training is so much fun, I always feel like I learn
more. Our zone got consolidated. That means there are 20 companion
ships in our zone now. That's huge!
This letter is short, but I'm going to keep trekking! We have a
baptism in October that's going to be sweet!
Love yall
I'm out.
This is a huge steak!
September 28, 2015
Welp this week was interesting. We found 2 new investigators, put them
on date, and then gave them to the sister missionaries because they
were single women. Salvation is coming whether by us or by them,
doesn't really matter as long as the work is getting done.
We had an awesome lesson with our investigator Chris. He's so ready
for baptism! He committed to living all the commandments, reads his
Book of Mormon every night, knows it's true, and who knows there is a
prophet on the earth, the only thing he is struggling with is church
attendance because he runs 5K's every weekend. But we had a sweet
lesson with him about the sacrament, and he grew in his testimony. He
committed to come to general conference this weekend with us! And then
every week after that! The down side is that we have to move his date
back because the week he's scheduled is for the 17th, and that's stake
conference, (go figure right?) it will be good for him to get the
habit forming of coming to church. He's 20 years old, so our vision is
seeing how much we can help him grow, maybe one day he will serve a
mission! That'd be shweet!
Elder Burke and I have been working hard. We have been trying to see
how "exactly obedient" we can be. We are at the starting stages, so
it's super rough but, we hope it gets easier. For instance, we cleaned
our apartment like crazy! It's like deep cleaned! We even did the tub!
Holy Moses you'll never see that in a missionary apartment! The past 3
tubs I've seen have been black! It's ridiculous! Hopefully this helps
Elder Burke get a good start to his mission, training is so crucial.
You can form good habits with a trainer, or bad habits. Hopefully I'm
helping him form good habits. I know it's helping me be a better
missionary, and more effective servant.
Stroke of sarcasm fell out of my mouth this week while at a door step.
(Anyone surprised?) so this 24 year old blonde girl answers, we spill
a short statement, and use the how to begin teaching point that says
" we will be guides so that you can learn the truth of our message for
yourselves. It is your choice to accept and act on the message."
"As you accept our message, you will learn how to make covenants, or
promises, with God. You will learn how to make changes to bring your
lives in closer harmony with His teachings. You will want to follow
the teachings of Jesus Christ and be baptized by proper authority" Ok,
so this is a normal thing for us. We invite literally everyone we meet
to be baptized, it's just what we do. If you want to baptize only a
few people, talk to and invite only a few people. If you want to
baptize everyone, talk to and invite everyone. So we go on with this
point of being "guides so they can accept and act on our message" and
she goes "well, I have a brain, so. I don't need you guys to come
around and 'tell me' I'll figure it out on my own." (Applicable
argument) hence why we say "we will invite, you act." That's what I
meant to say to her. This is what I actually said "well, ya know. What
we do as missionaries is simple. We extend invitations so you can USE
YOUR BRAIN to find those answers, and if you pray God will reveal them
to you." Oops. She uh, shut the door on us. I have found that I have
slight struggles with defending the truth, and being nice and
charitable in the process. Sometimes when people start to argue, or
try and "prove us wrong" with "false, vain, and foolish doctrines, and
shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek to hide their
councils from the Lord and their works shall be in the dark" (2 Nephi
28:9) it just makes me want to drive a drill bit through my ear.
Probably one of the many reasons why I'm training again, and also
visiting with the mission therapist once a week.
Any-whom, far west Missouri. Ya know the famous "Adam-ondi-Ahman"
where Christ will return again someday. Yeah, well, they are opening a
Far West stake out there! Which is historical! The work is pushing
forward! The people are being prepared, and I thank my father in
heaven for this glorious privilege of being a missionary in the Alpha
and Omega mission. I know this is the land, I know that the Lord is
moving this work forward "like a stone cut out of a mountain without
hands" it's rolling forward, and it shall not stop. The opposition we
face is a "puny arm, trying to stop the Missouri River in its steady
course"-Joseph Smith.
Here is a picture of our Popsicle smoothies. Can't believe I didn't
on date, and then gave them to the sister missionaries because they
were single women. Salvation is coming whether by us or by them,
doesn't really matter as long as the work is getting done.
We had an awesome lesson with our investigator Chris. He's so ready
for baptism! He committed to living all the commandments, reads his
Book of Mormon every night, knows it's true, and who knows there is a
prophet on the earth, the only thing he is struggling with is church
attendance because he runs 5K's every weekend. But we had a sweet
lesson with him about the sacrament, and he grew in his testimony. He
committed to come to general conference this weekend with us! And then
every week after that! The down side is that we have to move his date
back because the week he's scheduled is for the 17th, and that's stake
conference, (go figure right?) it will be good for him to get the
habit forming of coming to church. He's 20 years old, so our vision is
seeing how much we can help him grow, maybe one day he will serve a
mission! That'd be shweet!
Elder Burke and I have been working hard. We have been trying to see
how "exactly obedient" we can be. We are at the starting stages, so
it's super rough but, we hope it gets easier. For instance, we cleaned
our apartment like crazy! It's like deep cleaned! We even did the tub!
Holy Moses you'll never see that in a missionary apartment! The past 3
tubs I've seen have been black! It's ridiculous! Hopefully this helps
Elder Burke get a good start to his mission, training is so crucial.
You can form good habits with a trainer, or bad habits. Hopefully I'm
helping him form good habits. I know it's helping me be a better
missionary, and more effective servant.
Stroke of sarcasm fell out of my mouth this week while at a door step.
(Anyone surprised?) so this 24 year old blonde girl answers, we spill
a short statement, and use the how to begin teaching point that says
" we will be guides so that you can learn the truth of our message for
yourselves. It is your choice to accept and act on the message."
"As you accept our message, you will learn how to make covenants, or
promises, with God. You will learn how to make changes to bring your
lives in closer harmony with His teachings. You will want to follow
the teachings of Jesus Christ and be baptized by proper authority" Ok,
so this is a normal thing for us. We invite literally everyone we meet
to be baptized, it's just what we do. If you want to baptize only a
few people, talk to and invite only a few people. If you want to
baptize everyone, talk to and invite everyone. So we go on with this
point of being "guides so they can accept and act on our message" and
she goes "well, I have a brain, so. I don't need you guys to come
around and 'tell me' I'll figure it out on my own." (Applicable
argument) hence why we say "we will invite, you act." That's what I
meant to say to her. This is what I actually said "well, ya know. What
we do as missionaries is simple. We extend invitations so you can USE
YOUR BRAIN to find those answers, and if you pray God will reveal them
to you." Oops. She uh, shut the door on us. I have found that I have
slight struggles with defending the truth, and being nice and
charitable in the process. Sometimes when people start to argue, or
try and "prove us wrong" with "false, vain, and foolish doctrines, and
shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek to hide their
councils from the Lord and their works shall be in the dark" (2 Nephi
28:9) it just makes me want to drive a drill bit through my ear.
Probably one of the many reasons why I'm training again, and also
visiting with the mission therapist once a week.
Any-whom, far west Missouri. Ya know the famous "Adam-ondi-Ahman"
where Christ will return again someday. Yeah, well, they are opening a
Far West stake out there! Which is historical! The work is pushing
forward! The people are being prepared, and I thank my father in
heaven for this glorious privilege of being a missionary in the Alpha
and Omega mission. I know this is the land, I know that the Lord is
moving this work forward "like a stone cut out of a mountain without
hands" it's rolling forward, and it shall not stop. The opposition we
face is a "puny arm, trying to stop the Missouri River in its steady
course"-Joseph Smith.
Here is a picture of our Popsicle smoothies. Can't believe I didn't
know about this until now.
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