Hey Everyone!
This week had some really great things happen! Not so much for investigators (Let's just say Vivian's date is not for the 19th but hopefully WILL happen and we lost our progressing investigators for now...but this week should be able to pick them back up) but the leadership conference was really great! There were about 60 or so missionaries there (that's about 1/3 of our mission) and out of all of those missionaries, only 7 of us were sisters. All of the district leaders & zone leaders were there, a few other hand picked elders and then 7 sisters. Why they chose the missionaries they did? I have NO CLUE! But it was such a great privilege to be able to attend! Bro Watson was there (Director of proselyting for the world, helped put together preach my gospel) and another guy. They were such awesome speakers and taught us some really great things about teaching The Resoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and about planning. It was really inspiring and we got to role play teaching and practice how to implement the things they taught us while teaching investigators. When they talked about planning, it was great. They taught us how our weekly and nightly planning session should be spiritual and how we need to have a vision and goal while doing it. Then schedule to meet those goals. It's hard to put into an email everything they taught us, i don't even know where to start! But they did tell us how they travel around the world to a lot of different missions and that what is happening in our mission is great and Pres Scott is doing exactly what The Lord would do. I must also tell you he got really teary eyed (Bro Watson) and said if our parents could see us right now they'd be really proud of every one of us in that room. So there ya go, even though i felt totally under qualified to be there i suppose you can be proud of the opportunitiy i had to go! :) We have a huge multi-stake conference this coming Sunday and "big changes" are supposed to be happening. We'll see what those are. Think i'll be transfered? I know not! haha Should be interesting to see though. Anyways, i'll move on to some other stuff.
We were having dinner at the Arce's this week. They're a super awesome older couple. She really reminds me of gma Nelda. they could be sisters! It's so crazy. But they have this black cat named Phantom and sis wirthlin is allergic to cats and it kept jumping on her lap while we were eating dinner haha and so sister arce got a spray bottle and would spray it so it would keep away. Well, it came up by sister wirthlins legs and so she started spraying it and it ran away...but she kept on spraying it and spraying it...but she was really spraying sister wirthlins legs! (she was wearing black tights) hahaha When sister arce realized what she was doing she just started laughing and laughing. It was hilarious!
Things are pretty slow with investigators but great things are coming out of ESL. i think i've told you about Amal but she is getting baptized! Sis W and I have had a big part in introducing her to the gospel and we committed her to baptism but she lives in the elders area so we had to give her to them :( So they'll teach her and on march 18 (if we're both still here) we can go to the baptism! A couple of months ago, our previous district leader said they tried to teach her and she wasn't open. Well, an elder in our district saw her on the bus a few weeks ago and told her she should start coming to ESL again because she hadn't come for a few weeks. So she came and sis W and I got to know her and she really opened up to us and she was totally open to the Gospel. If the church wasn't true, the elders would have destroyed it a long time ago...
We also asked Richard to be baptized and he was really hesitant and said (in his thick taiwan accent) "i'm 50-50" haha but for some reason he gets super anxious and uncomfortable around the elders but loves us! So he said we could talk to him this tuesday about teaching him more. Richard is so awesome. I love the students that come to ESL! Too bad none of them live in our area. But i forgot to tell you the best part of that story is Richard attends a church in the mall in downtown mississauga and every week he picks up this 90 year old woman and takes her to church with him. I was like, "richard! how was church on sunday?!" and he said, "oh! the worst thing happened! It's closing!" apparently, the lease for their space they rent in the mall is up and so the church is closing! If that's not a sing, i don't know what is! haha
Do i miss tv? haha No...surprisingly you really never think about it. It will be on in people houses sometimes and it's just a big distraction. Of course they don't have good shows on...if it was Say Yes to The Dress it might be an entirely different story! Nick Jonas did come on in the bathroom of a store i was in a couple days ago and so i got to hear that! haha Taylor Swift seems to come on every time i walk into a store too...so i get my fill ;)
Another quick story about Brian (the guy we tracted into, and we told him we'd be back to pick up the BOM in a few days) Well we showed up and he handed us the BOM and said he read it and it was interesting. So we were like, "well, do you want to read it more because you can!" and he was like, "yes! i do. Give me a couple of weeks and then come back. " So hey, maybe he'll do the golden pray & read and boom.
Well, maybe next week's email will be full with interesting information I found out at stake conf...maybe i'll be packing to head somewhere else or maybe we'll have a baptism date for vivian again..ya never know! Missionary work is soooo unpredictable, eh?
Love,
Sister Messer
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