How was your week? I hope better than last one, that is for sure. My week was great. I feel like they just go soooo fast. Really, pday was two seconds ago.
Okay so first things first, an update on our people. Firstly, Adrina. She is kind of falling apart. She is a really quiet and shy person so we have to try really hard at church to get her to talk to people. She periodically breaks up with us. We always come back and she is like oh okay never mind and she is super PUMPED for baptism like she cried at this little boys baptismal service she felt the spirit so strong. Yesterday she said that she didn't want to go to church anymore and not to worry about her and we were kinda concerned but not too much because she has done this before but usually she backs down pretty quick but now not. She told us that she has been hurt by people in the past and she doesn't want to get hurt by the church and the people in the church. She agreed to keep meeting with us but she doesn't want to go to church. Our master plan is to have a member invite her over for dinner (one that drove her to another baptism) and then have the member invite her to church and talk with her about it so that way she knows that we NEED her at church. We are praying really hard for Adrina and if you could pray for her too that would be awesome.
We are also teaching this grandma and granddaughter named Reesie and Aaleah. Reesie absolutely loves everything that there is to do with the priesthood but she has a hard time committing to be baptized but we can't figure out why. Aaleah on the other hand was excited but a little not about the idea of baptism but after she came to a baptism she was totally on board. The problem is that neither of them will go to church with us and we can only meet with them once a week. We are thinking really hard about how to help them out because they absolutely love meeting with us and they love all of the lessons we have taught them and they actually read the Book of Mormon. They are almost done with First Nephi! I'm sure that the Lord will provide inspiration on how to help them continue to progress more.
I'll tell you about one more because she is so awesome. Her name is Latisha and she is just the sweetest most kind person you will ever meet and she just LOVES GOD AND JESUS CHRIST. In our last lesson with her she just started yelling saying that she doesn't "understand how people couldn't love Jesus" Honestly just yes to all of that and amen sister. What a woman. Last week Sister Reese and I both felt so strongly that baptism was the next step for her and that she was finally ready. She has been taught the restoration and we have been teaching her one point from the Gospel of Jesus Christ while doing a Bible and Book of Mormon study with her. We have done this for two weeks now because we just haven't felt like she needed the Plan of Salvation. Now, after our last lesson (where we all cried btw) we think that the Plan is what she needs next and that baptism is what is next, even though that is scary because she really loves her church. Every Thursday we are going to start having Yoga with the ladies in the ward and we are pumped for that fellowship because she has her own church family but hopefully this can help her have a church family at our church. She does Bible studies all day everyday and she has started reading the Book of Mormon with it and she loves loves loves it. We are hoping to help her keep progressing and teach her more about the plan of salvation this week because she had a question about that.
This week we didn't have a lot of finding time. Honestly, I love to find and to tract and to knock on doors. It is the best. We had a solid hour the other day and it was raining and we just went and knocked on doors. This one guy named John let us into his home while we were tracting but he was not interested, he just wanted us to get out of the rain and be dry. He was so cute. Also, we met this guy named Odell riding his bike and we yelled for him to talk to us and he turned around and chatted with us. He lives outside of our area but we told him to give us a call so we could sent him missionaries in his area. What a cool dude. Also, he had glasses with mustaches on them and it made me think of Abby when we lived in Germany. Honestly, our hour and a half of finding time that we had the other day wasn't too successful. We didn't find too many promising people but it was okay still because it was so fun! I never feel more like a missionary than when we are walking through the hood in the rain and knocking on people's doors with everyone saying no thanks and literally flinching when we pulled out the Book of Mormon to share a scripture with her on their doorstep (true story). I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a missionary. Speaking of, I hit my 5 months from going home mark and yes, I did cry about it.
We have a district activity today and I am soooo pumped. We are going to play basketball and do dew pong and karaoke. The Elders came up with it and we are just along for the ride. (When we talked with Emily last night she was still excited about this activity because she SCHOOLED the elders at basketball)
Sister Reese is AWESOME. Seriously she is great. She is just the kindest most perfect person and she has this super amazing love for every single person that we meet. I have learned a lot from her about loving the people. I have always loved the work but now that is shifting to having more love for the people than I knew than I could have. The one thing that I sometimes struggle with is that I feel that we sometimes waste our time. I don't know if we actually are (because I don't have anything to compare it to) but it is okay. The thing that makes me feel like we are wasting time is honestly just doing contacting because we just sit for an hour and text people and call people but there is only one sim card and I don't have it so I feel that it just is boring. So that isn't a waste of time for me just not very fun. Also, I feel that we spend too much time at member's homes sometimes so we set a goal to be diligent in that and to get to the point with members and to get in and get out in 30 minutes. We did a pretty good job at that yesterday so hopefully we can keep the trend going. Honestly, I just want to go out and knock doors but I also realize that members are key in missionary work but at the same time the members don't give us anything or anyone to teach so I don't know what to do about that. Also, why is there such a gap between the missionaries and the members?!?! They seriously have no idea what we do all day everyday which seems ridiculous to me because I feel like everyone should just get more on board with everything and everyone should be on the same page and there shouldn't be a gap. But there is. I know every missionary in a normal mission reads this and is like "wow it took this chick a year to figure out this problem" but it is just never something I had to think about on Temple Square so yeah. Good times.
This week has basically just been a good one. I love my companion and I love the work and I love the people we are teaching and I love you both!!! I know, it is kind of a short one, I feel like lots happened but also that nothing happened. Next week I will email a fat one because we are going on exchanges with the Sister Training Leader's and there will be more excitement and drama with our people and we will see who keeps progressing because we have a lot who are low key dying and dropping us left and right. So please pray for them for their hearts to be softened, especially Adrina!!!!
LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Love,
Sister Moran
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