Sisters lunch after
Zone Meeting :))
Hello everyone! I hope y'all had an
awesome week! We found another 4 amazing new investigators to teach and we have
already seen SO MANY miracles from the wards special fast for missionary
work!! I'm excited to tell y'all about them!
The first miracle is Tyler. We were
doing service for a member on Tuesday when we got a phone call from an unknown
number. I answered the phone and it was a man asking when our church services
were. I told him and asked how he heard about the church and if he was
interested in learning more. He told us he had a friend that he works with that
is a member and that she has been telling him a lot about the church and so he
was interested in learning more. We offered to teach him but he said he was in
Seattle WA for work but would love to do some kind of online lesson if that was
something we could do.... good thing we are an iPad mission!! We offered to
FaceTime him and we were able to teach him later that day! We taught him the
whole first lesson and he was so sincere about wanting to learn more. At the
end he just paused and said, "Is this really true? Did all of this really
happen??" We were able to share our testimonies of the truthfulness of our
message and of the Book of Mormon and the spirit was SO STRONG! One of the most
powerful lessons I've ever had.... and we were just sitting in an empty
classroom at the church talking to an iPad screen. Technology is so amazing! We
were able to FaceTime him again on Saturday night and he had already read a
huge chunk from the Book of Mormon and felt like it was true. He seems so
prepared to accept the gospel and we are excited to see how he progresses.
A member gave us
these and I about cried. They don't sell them in the south and I'm not sure how
they found them. It was a very special moment
We also had a miracle with our
investigator Vicky. We have been teaching her for about a month but it's hard
to see her regularly because of some different health problems she has. She
wasn't feeling well this week so we were able to have a FaceTime lesson with
her too! It was her first time using FaceTime and she was so funny the whole
time. She would pause randomly during the lesson and say, "wow this is so
cool! I can see y'all so clear!! It's just...the picture is so clear!"
Haha she's a dork but I love her! We were able to teach her about the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and we cleared up a lot of her concerns about baptism and coming
to church. We were able to set a baptism date with her for April and we are so
excited!! She knows it's true and knows she needs to be baptized and it's just
so amazing to see how much her faith has grown in the short amount of time we
have been meeting with her!
Sunday mornings are
great...and they are even better when your comp makes you yummy french
toast!!
Sister Goeller is doing amazing and
really becoming a powerful missionary. We were knocking doors one day and got a
pretty bad rejection. Most people are very nice and friendly even if they
aren't interested...but this lady was not nice. We left and she didn't even let
in phase her. We just kept going and working hard. Her positive attitude and
determination makes the work fun. She really makes my job easy haha! I love
being a missionary and I love that I get to talk to people about Jesus Christ
all day! I recently started a challenge where I want to read all the scriptures
about Jesus Christ in the topical guide.... which is over 2000 scriptures. As a
mission we have been challenged to read about 15 a day. It was a challenge
extended by Elder Nelson and even though it's only been a week I have seen such
a huge difference. My testimony of the Savior has grown so much as I have taken
this time to study more about his life, ministry, and atonement. I know that
Jesus Christ loves each one of us and he died for each one of us so we can all
repent and become perfected through him. God be thanked for the matchless gift
of His divine son!
I love y'all and hope you have a
blessed week <3
xoxo
Sister M
True love for Idaho spuds
-Weekly Moss Moment-
So we were doing service for a member
and one of the things they asked us to do was take their dog on a walk. We
grabbed Lucas and took him out and started walking around the apartment
complex. We were walking in the back by the retention pond and I was just
looking down not really paying attention when all of a sudden I hear this
really loud hiss. I looked over and all I saw was a flash of eggs and I thought
"OH NO ITS A SNAKE!" And then my brain calmed down and saw it was
really just a goose. I didn't even know they hissed. So I yanked on Lucas and
pulled him back away and then out of nowhere this huge goose starts honking and
flying at us from across the pond. And he's out for blood. Sister G and I just
look at each other and start running away as fast as we could. We barely made
it out alive hahahaha! I'm not sure if the moss got me or Lucas but it was a
pretty mossy situation.