Hello one and all!
What a wonderful week!! We were able to do so
much! We talked to so many people and taught so many lessons! It is just
so good to work hard :) Did we reach all of our goals? Nah. In fact we
were just shy of most of them. Was that frustrating? A bit. But we know
we did our best and that's all that matters :)
Okay.
So last week we did a musical # in church, Joseph Smith's First Prayer.
I think I shared that last week... but anyway. It was really awesome
and the Spirit was super strong :) That night we had dinner with the
K. family. They're some of my favorite people. Usually after dinner
and a thought, we'll spend a few minutes singing hymns and a couple of
jazzed up primary songs. It's my favorite thing :) Anyway. Sis
K wasn't at sacrament meeting because she's in the stake
primary presidency, so she travels to other wards lots. She asked us to
sing our song for her, and she recorded it on her camera. After dinner
she came out with us for a lesson. Of course it fell through. So we
thought we'd swing by J & M's house with a plate of cookies which we
had made earlier that day. Convenient, no? :) So M comes out for a
minute and she told us how bummed she is that she and J missed
church. So Sis K whips out her camera and shows her! Tender mercy!! So
then she's like, "J needs to see this!" So they let us come in and
J is drawing this master piece of Christ mounting a horse with
armor... something about reading 1 Nephi that reminded him of this dream
he had of Christ mounting an armored horse. Anyway. M kindly
interrupted him and we watched the video again. Once again the Spirit
filled the room and brought J to tears. Sis Adorable and me, too. I
know they know it's true. It's just up to them to make the decision.
It's comforting to know that they still have good ties to members and
missionaries, and they just want a break from the lessons. :)
Then there's our other investigators, M
and A. Man. These two. They have my heart :) So we had a great
lesson with them on Tuesday! We asked him how he felt about church and
he had 2 comments. One related to the lesson. The other was, "Why is it
that Mormons have a better ear and can sing so well?!" He explained
that when he was in Priesthood, they didn't have a piano, but of course
opened with a song and the men stayed in tune! He said that he almost
had to stop singing and listen for a minute because he couldn't believe
his ears. Oh yeah. M. majored in vocal performance. I almost joked
that being Mormon gives the gift of vocal cords. But then I didn't. Haha
:) They are so good. They love watching conference talks on lds.org.
They love reading the scriptures. They love lessons. They love the
restored gospel! Which is great because the restored gospel loves them!
:)
We just started meeting with them multiple times a week and
this past week they went out of town so we only got to teach once. And
as we got ready to leave M said, "I get why you want to meet
more than once a week! Having you over only once is going to make this
week so long!" Well yeah. For us, too. We're excited to see them again
tomorrow :)
The culture of the GANM is
changing! We are no longer doing scripture dinner thoughts! *Gasp*
Instead, we're role playing with the members!
We ask the
members beforehand if they can think of a friend or family they they can
impersonate and then we teach as if we're teaching them! We have had
some seriously cool experiences with it. And I love it!! I've always
liked role playing, but this is taking it to a whole new level! So fun
:) So now... all we ever do is teach! When we're with investigators,
we're teaching. When we're with less actives, we're teaching. When we're
with recent converts, we're teaching. As we're contacting and tracting,
we're teaching. And when we're with members we're --you guessed it--
teaching! :)
In fact. A couple of days ago we
went to visit some members and their daughter in law was there. She has
some interesting beliefs, but it was cool to get to know her. We
presented this idea to the family to role play with them and Sis K
goes, "Well. L isn't a member, you can practice on her!" We look over
at L. and she was like, "sure!" So we did! It was really awesome.
At the end, Sis K walked us to the door and was like, "Every time
the missionaries come over, she leaves the room when they share a
thought. This is the first time she's ever stayed. AND participated!" So
cool. I love role playing :) Heck. I just love being a missionary :)
Well. I think I've taken up enough screen space this week.
It's been a good one and I'm looking forward to this upcoming week as well! :)
I love you all!!
~Sis Jacobs.
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