My new companion Sister Goeller
:))
Hello everybody! I hope y'all have
had a great week! This has been a long, stressful, and miracle filled week here
in Arlington! Wednesday morning we headed down to Mandarin and I picked up my
new companion! Her name is Sister Goeller and she is from SLC Utah! She's
pretty shy and quite but she's the sweetest thing ever and she is such a
diligent missionary already! We have been working so hard and we've found 4 new
investigators in the 3 days we've been together as a companionship!! It's been
exhausting but I love training. She’s awesome and makes my job easy haha!
Our first miracle happened while we
were trying some former and potential investigators. We had a man that had
requested a Bible a few months ago but we hadn't been able to contact him yet.
We decided to try him and we were able to finally get in contact with him!! We
gave him the Bible and asked if we could say a prayer with him before talking
more. We briefly explained the Book of Mormon introduction and shared our
testimony with him. He was very impressed with how centered it was on Jesus
Christ and he said he wanted us to come back so we could teach him more! He
grabbed our hands and said a prayer for us before we left haha. It was such a
neat experience and we could tell he was really prepared to hear our
message.
Knocking her first street haha! She
loves taking pictures and wants to document everything it's so funny!
We had a lot of our set appointments
fall through so we spent the majority of this week knocking doors and
contacting people. We were in an apartment complex one night trying to contact
some people and just talking to people out and about. We walked past two ladies
that were working on their car and we stopped to talk to them. They told us
they were having some car troubles and they couldn't figure out what was wrong.
I threw Sister Goeller under the bus and told them she knew a lot about cars
and might be able to help them fix whatever was wrong. Sister Goeller was a
total champ and got right to work on the car despite being in pros clothes. I
was so proud. We were able to talk to both ladies and found out their names
were April and Tangie. We asked if we would be able to share some of our
message with them and they were so thankful for our help that they were willing
to listen. We said a prayer with them in the parking lot and shared some of our
favorite scriptures from the Book of Mormon. We were able to testify that God
loves us so much that he gave us the gospel so we can grow closer to him. The
spirit was SO strong during the lesson. April told us she was so happy we
stopped and talked to her. She said she had felt down and was having a really
bad day and felt like we were an answer to her prayers. She gave us their
contact information and we are planning on seeing them this upcoming week.
MIRACLES! I love how we aren't limited to sit down lessons in someone's house
where every tiny detail planned. We teach at every opportunity even if it's on
a doorstep or in a tire store or in a parking lot.
The flash was too bright and I smudged the sharpie
but that's okay
Sunday was Ward Conference and we
were blessed to have Elder Klebingat speak to us! He gave a powerful talk on
the atonement and Christ being our advocate. After the meeting was over he came
straight up to the Elders and us and shook our hands and told us how thankful
he was we were serving. I was a little star struck and kind of just smiled and
didn't know what to say. He just paused and looked at us again and said,
"My mission was the best time of my life. There is no better work than
that of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for your service."
Such a cool experience. I love being a missionary!! I know that Jesus Christ
suffered for us and felt every pain, trial, and temptation we would ever feel
so we would not have to go through it alone. I love spreading the good news of
the gospel with everyone I meet. I'm thankful for y'all and the constant love
and support I receive. God is SO good!
I love y'all so much! Have a blessed
week <3
Rap snacks anyone??
-Weekly Moss Moment-
Well we were heading home from our
trainer trainee meeting and we had been on the freeway for maybe 2 seconds when
it started pouring rain. Like hurricane tropical storm status pouring rain. I'm
a terrible driver anyways, I have this newborn baby in the seat next to me that
has no idea what's going on, Jacksonville drivers are terrifying, and I barely
even knew how to get home.... so basically I went into straight panic mode. I took
the first exit possible just praying there would be like a McDonalds or
something we could stop at for a few minutes just until the rain stopped. The
exit ended up just taking me to another section of the freeway and we are
headed in the opposite direction of where we need to be. Hopelessly lost we see
a sign for ST. AUGUSTINE and I know we are in trouble. I guess subconsciously I
just really missed my last area haha! So we finally made it off this wrong free
way and found somewhere to pull off and figure out how to get headed back in
the right direction. It took forever to get home and it poured rain the rest of
the day so my comp got a classic Florida welcome haha! I've gotten lost
everyday since then so pray for me hahaha dang moss