What a week.
It has been so interesting to see the
Lord work with Sister Adorable and I over the last few weeks. We've been doing a
lot of service over the last few weeks. Like a ton. Our schedule is
pretty much, lessons with M. & A., tracting, and service for
members. With a few less active visits here or there. We're not finding a
whole lot of new investigators and it has been kinda frustrating, but
then we realized the Father in Heaven has a different task for us to
focus on. The Relief Society here is really awesome, but there are a lot
of "group"s. Which was something that I wanted to help with when I
first got here.... but I didn't know how and it wasn't happening with 2
exchanges a week and lots of people to teach. Well, Heavenly Father has
made it very doable to focus on that now! And come to find out, the Relief Society
Presidency is focusing on unity with the sisters as well. Clearly
there's something bigger than our plans going on.
Last
Monday we had a pretty powerful lesson with M & A. We
learned some really cool teaching tools last week that I think I shared
and we implemented them with them. So good. We gave them
notebooks before conference to take notes in and asked them to take them
out and write how they felt their life would be in a year if they a)
got baptized or b) didn't. A. said that her life in a year would be
described with "lost" if they decided not to get baptized. M.
described it, "life as is." Not that there's anything wrong with it, but
they've seen a brighter light and they know it would be hard to go back
to life as it was before. After that little activity, we asked them to
think about their next step on this path. We had them write down what
they felt they needed to do individually in order to progress. A.
said that she wanted a Priesthood blessing. Our teamup was Brother Giddings,
our ward mission leader. So he gladly performed that for them. M.
was blessed to know that he's at a crossroads and he will make the right
decision. A. was blessed that no matter what others think or say,
she would have the courage to make the proper decision. When we walked
out of the lesson, Brother Giddings told us that he has the strongest
impression that they know, especially A.
We're
doing something new with the missionaries in the zone. Our focus for
the rest of the transfer is baptismal invites. We're shooting for a
cumulative of 250 invites between now and the end of the transfer. Every
time a companionship invites someone to be baptized, they text the Zone
Leaders #FloodTheFont and then forward it out to the rest of the zone.
It has been so cool to get text after text of missionaries inviting
their investigators to be baptized. The work is hastening! :)
J. & M. Remember them? Well, they're really good friends with
Brother
Giddings and the Giddings had all four sister missionaries and J. &
M. over for dinner on Thursday. It was like a preview of
Thanksgiving, haha. We talked about the Gospel, but then we had to run
off because of another appointment. Brother Giddings followed up with us
on Sunday
and told us that M. shared some very personal concerns with him and
they talked about those. He also said that they asked him, "We are
intrigued and fascinated by the church. Don't give up on us. We feel
something here that we don't get anywhere else." That brought tears to
my eyes. I'm glad that they feel something and they recognize it. I love
them. I really truly do. I feel like the Lord is giving me a glimpse of
how he must've felt when some of His spirit children were so close to
choosing Christ, and then changed their minds. Luckily I know, and I
feel very strongly. that J. & M. will come around. It'll just
take a few more sets of missionaries.
A. was sick on Sunday so her husband, M. came to church alone. We introduced him to
the Stake President who talked to him for a minute. We've been meeting
with them for almost 4 months. Can you believe that? So crazy. Anyway,
M. was touched with President's words of encouragement. We have
another lesson with them tonight. It's been about a month since we've
extended the baptismal invite, so we're fixin' to do it again! :)
Well. That's this week!
Love y'all!
~Sis J.
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