Oiiii minha querida familia!!
Como
vao??? I miss you alll!!!!! I JUST got to get onto the computuer!
omg! We were stuck outside for an hour cause no one came to unlock the
door for us to the family history center!
So updates: Megan and Craig, the couple we wanted to get
married.... sighhhhh. The bishop of their ward--not our bishop cause
they live in the other ward boundaries--special situation, they wanted
sisters teaching them instead of elders :) --so that bishop went and
visited them for a second and kind of explained really quickly how they
cant get baptized until they are married and I guess he didn't realize we
already explained that so he kinda went more shallow than we did and she
took it the wrong way and thought he meant don't get married until you're
ready and then get baptized..... sooooo we gotta work on that with them
): This past lesson though I realized that they didn't even really
understand why they would want to be baptized. So we're gonna start
there and get them really fired up to be baptized and then get that to
be the key to them getting married. They're out of town a lot and so I'll
update that again later. Kinda cool though cause they wanted a
cultural marriage--She's Navajo--so that includes him having to butcher
and cook a cow and serve it to her whole family..... that'll be
interesting! hahah
OH MY this week has been an interesting one!! hahah. Soooo
first of all, Sis Jensen-Coon and I got bit by a dog! It was the
cutest dog and totttttalllyyyy reminded me of Rusty!!! WOW! even the one
ear up one down thing! and his patchy spots! This one was more grey
though. he was tied up and ran around a pole so the rope was shorter and
we were walking by after talking to his owners. Then the dog got smart
and as we were walking away, unwound from around the pole and so the
rope was longer and we didnt even notice but he ran up to us and I
honestly didn't think he would do anything cause there are SO Many dogs
here that bark crazy but are the nicest things ever. But yeah he
actually came up and bit us!! He hit my knee so it was bone and I kinda
saw it coming the last second and jerked my knee up by instinct I guess
and hit his mouth and I think it scared him so he ran after Sis
Jensen-Coon and she was a little ahead of me so she I guess it looked
like she was running away and he bit her thigh. It left some big bruises
on us but nothing punctured and so we were all good. We got it cleaned
just in case but we're both fine. Just awesome stories for later! hehe.
Awesome story number 2!
We ran into a Priest from
another church and we were contacting him on the street and he started
talking to us about how he knows Joseph Smith had the vision but it was
actually the devil angels in disguise and we were all posessed and
that's why we all believe it so firmly. He was like I KNOW that you're
possessed. You're both so sweet but its sad seeing you so possessed. So
we set up an appt with him to kind of just discuss our beliefs and stuff
and we were scared he was gonna throw holy water on us at the door or
perform a seance or something but we just discussed the bible and proved
our beliefs with scripture and he was super open and it was an awesome
discussion with him and his wife and guess what!! It turns out a lot of
our beliefs are the same and Mormon beliefs can be proven in the Bible!! Who'da thunk. hahah. I was like ... yeahhhhhh that's what we try to
tell people but for some reason no one believes us. haha. fun stuff. We
have a return appt where we'll teach the Plan of Salvation with
scriptural backup because he's very against the idea of the premortal
life. But here comes the Bible references!!
WOW I learned how much I LOVE studying!! When an investigator has a
question and we say we'll look it up and return and report, hehe, we go
home and it brings up tons of other questions that I had growing up but
never really thought about or asked or kinda just pushed aside because I didn't know the answer ... and I would search them up and find things in the Bible and Book of Mormon that made so much sense and everything just
falls into place and its the coolest feeling!! It's such a testimony
builder when I realize that this gospel really DOES answer all the
questions! If people would just be open to hearing us out they'd realize
that we DO have all the answers! Even members need to realize that, I
think. I never felt comfortable asking these questions because I was
raised Mormon and thought I had to know everything. So I just wouldn't
talk about it.
One big thing for me was the Godhead. It really was a tough concept for
me to understand but I knew what we believed, they're separate beings, so I just accepted it and moved on. but when we have to explain it to
people I realized I don't actually know what I'm talking about so I had
to study. It's amazing how much my testimony of the gospel and the
scriptures and the Book of Mormon and the nature of God has grown just
from me learning and studying it out for myself.
I've learned so much about how we are all still learning and will
CONSTANTLY be learning until we're perfected AFTER this life in
yearsssssss and years to come. It's okay to have questions. God gave us
that ability to think and question for a reason--that reason being to
find out and when we do find out, that's when we grow and it builds that
testimony! It's the coolest feeling ever. I looooove it! Funny, cause I always hated studying before... school, church, everything. haha. oh,
the things you learn on a mission ;)
BEFORE I FORGET! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY CAMI!!!!!! I don't
remember if I wrote it last week. but our pday last week was cut short
cause of appts so we didn't have time to write any letters): hopefully I'll have time today! I hope you had an aweeeesome birthday!!! woooooh!
youre old(; haha.
So we've been having a lot of success with LTM's but our
finding is suuuufffering. I think only like 3 new investigators a week
): It's so hard cause we don't have a bishop. Our bishop moved last week
and the whole time I've been here, he's been prepping for the move and
kinda in that awkward stage of what to do cause he couldn't really start
anything cause he wouldn't be here to follow anything through and now
it's our second week without a bishop and we're DYING HERE!!!! We had 1
ward council so far and it's toughhhhhh!!! I honestly wish every ward had
a bishop like you, Dad. We don't even have a Ward Mission Plan, or if
we do, no one knows what it is. ): I just sooo greatly appreciate the
amazing dfference the ward makes in this work. It literally cannot go
forward without the ward. The Bishop is suchhhhhha huge help and If we
had a bishop like you, we'd have the HUGEST growing ward ever!!! We
have the families and members and everything who are willing to go out
with us and everything but its so hard to coordinate activities or
events or anything to get people to bring friends to! There was one
event, and EQ BBQ and it was the biggest hit. the EQ prez had a party at
his house and we had soooo many investigators go it was amazing. We
need more activities like that at the church and stuff or something. and
we need to get involved with the youth!!!!! It's so hard to get anything
done without the bishop. ): We were hoping for one this past Sunday but
nope. Gotta wait another week then! Prayingggg!!!!! haha.
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