Hey everybody!
I didn't even realize i had hit my 10 month mark until
basically every email mentioned it! haha thanks for rubbing it in ;) Weird
thing is, I had two different members ask me if I was "almost
done"...what's that supposed to mean? I took it as i must not be caring as
much about what i look like i.e. if my clothes match, if my shoes are falling
apart...maybe my hair is bad..but i just got it cut on monday! And it was my
first hair cut since i'd left last november. Hmmm. whatevs! This week was a
pretty good one. FULL of miracles, that's for sure. Remember Michael David from
July? We met him street contacting and he had just been feeding the ducks?
Anyways, he needs the gospel and he knew it but wasn't ready to give up all his
bad habits. Well, a few days ago we got a text that said, "i'm ready.
when can we meet?" We were like say whaaat?! He came to stake conference
on Sunday! Hopefully we'll meet him this week and things will continue to look
up. Another miracle took place as we were dropping by a less active. We had
gone by 4-5 times in the last month and they never answered so we knocked on
the landlords door and it was an older indian lady and she was smiling really
big. She spoke broken english and told us the people had moved. Then she said,
"i was feeling really disturbed inside and was praying and then one second
later the door bell rang immediately!" She invited us in and gave us
water. (indian people are very good at offering water whether or not they're
actually interested) She's sikh but we started to talk about prayer. Sikh
beliefs are interesting. They worship gurus and there's 10 of them. So whenever
a prayer is answered it's the gurus that are answering their prayers. However,
on the street they'll always say "god is one! god is one!" so i'm a
little confused at whether they believe in God as well or what. Anyways, she
invited us back next Sunday and we're bring Bishop Solomon's wife who speaks
hindi so we can communicate. That was our only new investigator for the week.
I learned to do a couple of new
things this week! One, I mowed a lawn! Two, I made homemade tomatoe sauce with
an italian guy! It's a member family from Italy and every year they make
their own sauce and bottle it to last the entire year. They made us pasta and
pizza the italian way and it's quite delicious! But the process was pretty fun-
as you can see in the pictures!
The trio's smoking problems are getting better
but are still there. They came to church yesterday and had a great experience!
They're so humble and are really great at recognizing blessings that have come
into their life since they've been changing and seeing answers to their
prayers. Navene left church for a few minutes and last night she told she left
and went over to the temple. She said while she was there she was praying and
got the answer that she shouldn't wait so long to be baptized. (her date is for
nov 25 and she wouldn't budge!) But now she wants to get baptized with her bro and
sis on Oct 28. Still too far away but better, eh? They're all very excited to
get baptized. Now if they would stop procrastinating and quit smoking, they'd
be prepared! That's what we're working on now.
Now i'll answer
your Q's, mom. Did Subhash bless the sacrament again this week? Nope, it
was stake conference!
Did Joseph come to church? Of course he did! He's
awesome. Before stake conf we had a meeting for all investigators and recent
converts with the stake pres and pres scott. He made some great comments.
he's definitely super solid!
Any more luck with Shannon this week? Did she
come to church? We've talked to her and she's still struggling a lot. She
didn't make it to church. But we're still in contact with her.
How
was zone training? It was good. we focused on meeting with members and
getting referrals. We're implementing that into our dinner appts now and it
makes the message we share a lot more powerful.
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| A cucumber a member in our ward gave us |
So
that's this week. Thanks for the prayers and everything! Love and miss ya
Sister
Messer
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