Hey Friends and Family!!
Happy Birthday Price and Laura Olsen last week! I look up to the way you play with your kids Price and Laura, well you are just too cute!!! Thank you for being my cousin! Happy Birthday Anna Pearce! I look at your cute little note you wrote that my mom put in my things all the time. You were very inspired to write what you did... Thank you!! Hope you have a good day!
This week we had both zone training and new missionary meeting. We did a little biking as well! When I said the miles were out I over exaggerated a little:) We had fun biking! This week was particularly warm for this time of year. Saturday was a high of 77 degrees! Because the weather is very unpredictable here everyone talks about it. Usually small talk about the weather would make situations awkward but here it is the basis for a lot of conversations. It makes me laugh. The leaves are changing now and with the good weather, it seemed almost everyone was in a good mood!
This week we met with our 15 year old investigator, Leslie. The last two times we met with Leslie, we talked to her about the value virtue. There are about 6 value experiences in Personal Progress I believe. We discussed, in detail, one of them and introduced the second. When we met again with her this week, she told us she had finished all the value experiences in Virtue. She loves the Lord and his work! She is a great example to me. I know we will always keep in contact. It is neat for me to hear her talk about her conversion to the Lord with such perspective. Leslie's family is from Mexico and doesn't speak English really well. We also visit a less active family once in a while, also from Mexico. The mom and three of the seven kids have been baptized. We had breakfast with them last week and the mom said that her daughter, who has been baptized and is 15, feels nervous going to Young Women’s because she doesn't have any friends there. Well….Leslie's family is from Mexico too. Just like the less active's father, Leslie’s father is also catholic. We felt instantly inspired after talking with them that we should set the two families up. We hope we can reactivate one family while bringing another family into the Church! The Lord has an amazing plan! I feel lucky to be a part of making it happen!
Sister Smith and I tracted into a woman on a rainy day named Pam a few months ago. She let us into her house and we chatted. She was very kind to us. We weren't able to share the message of the Restoration but we were grateful to have met someone so kind! We took her a letter a week later expressing our gratitude. She texted us and thanked us for the letter. She told us she would love to take us out to lunch sometime! Sister Bone and I last week felt inspired to call her. She was very gracious and told us she would love to take us out to lunch this week! On Saturday, we went to lunch with her at a very nice restaurant that overlooked the lake...I felt like I was in a dream. We were able to share with her the Restoration lesson. She thought it was quite interesting. She spoiled us to say the least! She wants to get together this week again. I know the Lord has great plans for her. I believe I will be good friends with her. I am grateful for the Holy Ghost. Time and time again I am surprised at the miracles that come as we submit our will to the Savior's.
Sister Bone and I, after zone training about consecrated missionaries, made a commitment to the Lord to have a baptism. We pray every day constantly that we will have one. It is amazing the miracles that have already come as a result. We have met many wonderful people this week! We taught a retired pastor and two girls who worked in a gas station as they were helping other people buy cigarettes:) I know the Lord has many people prepared to hear the gospel. We simply need to prepare to teach them! As we submit our will to the Lord's, we show the Lord we are worthy of divine intervention.
I loved the women's broadcast! Dieter F Uchtdorf's analogy of our “sin umbrella” shielding us from raining blessings was great. I loved how he likened commandments to the instructions on how to close the umbrella. I know that the Lord wants to bless us. It is by obedience, turning our will to God's, that we receive those blessings!
After the meeting, women in another ward gathered to take a picture. One of the women told us to get in the picture. We told her that we didn't know the people getting in the picture. She looked at us and frankly and boldly said, "Do you know Jesus?...Get in the picture." We quickly obeyed. We cracked up laughing afterward about it. If we know Jesus, than we must come together. It was a funny story but it has a great message! "Do you know Jesus?...then get in the picture!" Sister Bone and I like to repeat it back to each other!
Love all of you!! Thank you for your letters and emails of encouragement! I am coming to realize on a mission how blessed I really am. I hope I can help others to receive similar blessings!
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