Hello ya'll! I hope
all is going well on the home front.
This has been a good
week..because CRISSY got baptized!
I am so happy for
her :) Even though I am not in that area anymore, I have been
messaging her on FB
and she told me all about it. She is such a
sweetheart and I am
so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the
opportunity to find
and teach her. She truly is an example of how
people really are
prepared for the gospel, but know not where to find
it. She had been
living with members in Idaho for 7 years, always
wanted to learn more
about the church but never was invited to.
People, we need to
talk to our friends and neighbors! Invite! You
never know who is
ready, you never know what in their lives has
prepared them. I am
so glad my companion stopped to talk to her on the
street that night,
because I was going to walk right by her. It made
me so happy to hear
about her happiness in finding the gospel and the
way that she felt at
her baptism. And I am grateful that we have
Facebook so I can
keep up with her. :)
This week in
Salisbury has been good. We had bikes, and it was really
hot. At the
beginning of the week, we had to spend sometime updating
our map because it's
way out of date. You kind of need a map to plan
where you need to
go! We know even though that took some time, it will
bless us this week.
On Tuesday, we went
to service and we have the best service project
set up!!! Ah I loved
it. The neatest experience. We got to go to the
food bank and put
together peoples orders and give them their food and
help them take it
out to their car. It was so neat and we got to meet
a lot of great
people. I am excited that we get to do that every week.
I thought a lot
about how I want to do things like this for the rest
of my life, be
service oriented and help other people. I think I have
learned on my
mission that my life is really not my own and it's
supposed to be spent
helping out other people. I don't remember who it
was, but a prophet
said "My life is like my shoes, to be worn out in
The Lord's
service."
We had a great
district meeting on Wednesday. Sister Holman is in my
district, and it's
funny because she was Steve's supervisor at the
creamery. I love
finding connections and that the people in my mission
know people in my
family.
We found a great new
investigator tracting this week. She's so great.
She is a single mom,
she's 26, we taught her a little bit and then
came back the next
day with a member and had a really great lesson.
She seemed very
receptive to what we were saying. She can't come to
church this week
because of work but hopefully next week. There are
people prepared!
We had a girl in our
Ward who is going on a mission soon and she loves
going out with us.
She is super excited about everything. I love it.
She's just like
" Wow, You are missionaries!" And she is just so
amazed by the
littlest things and it's so cute. I hope she keeps that
her whole mission. I
think we forget as missionaries how important and
special it is that
we are missionaries and get to represent The Lord.
I am grateful for
it.
We met with a less
active who has some real word of wisdom problems.
It was so sad to
see, she has so much potential and faith but has some
serious addictions!
We helped her understand that through the
Atonement, she can
overcome this. I have faith that she can do it, but
it won't be easy.
She also has a 9 year old daughter she wants us to
teach, so we are
going back to teach her tomorrow. I have taught a lot
of kids on my
mission, I think The Lord is using my elementary
education
background.
We taught the 9 year
old daughter of another less active and she is so
cute. Her and her
family came to church and it was so great to see
them. She read her
Book of Mormon chapter we left her and she loves
learning. It's so
sweet to see a child's faith and how they just are
so close to the
spirit. Hopefully we will be able to talk to her
family about setting
a date soon.
Yesterday after
church we had an appointment to see a less active. But
when we looked on
the roster, the note said incorrect address. So we
called and called
and she didn't answer to tell us the correct
address, so we
weren't planning on going. But then she called right at
the time we were
going to be there and she was like "Oh aren't you
coming??" We
were pretty far away and on our bikes. But we said we
would get there as
fast as we could. Then the BEST members EVER came
to our rescue. They
are an older couple who just moved here from Utah.
They came with their
truck and picked us up and took us and our bikes
to the appointment,
waited for us to finish, then took us back, and on
top of that, they
had already fed us earlier in the week but theyh
asked if we had a
dinner appointment and when we didn't answer because
we didn't want to be
a burden, they fed us as well, they are so kind!
He said with tears
in his eyes, " I have had 6 kids serve missions and
I know people
rescued and fed them, so please let us help you out, I
want to
pay them back!"
They are just great examples of Christian service and
Faith. Ya'll pay it
forward to, if you see some missionaries or anyone
who needs help this
week, go help them because I was helped!
"And behold, I
tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom, that ye
may learn that when
ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye
are only in the
service of your God"