Hey Family!
Aw man, I'm so happy y'all got to meet the Walls at their homecoming. They're awesome people.
:) and I miss them so much! Y'all could just send a CD with the recordings on it if you want.
Oh hey and
those Book of Mormon notes that I sent home are for Emily. I didn't
have time to write a note in with the package but it was part of our
challenge together. We agreed to read the Book of Mormon by the time
school got out and with every chapter write down something we learned.
So that's mine for ya. Where's your end of the deal, Emily? ;)
So yeah, I got a
new companion! Her name is Sister King and she's from Phoenix,
Arizona. She's been on her mission for six months and she's really
nice. Haha I don't know what else to tell y'all about her. And Sister
Wolf got transferred up to Marksville. I miss her but know she's doing
good. Ya know, at first I really didn't want to get a new companion for
my last transfer but now I'm really liking it. It's weird, new
companions help you to grow in different ways. I actually think I was
more trunky last transfer than this one. Aw man, look at me. Only
trunky people talk about not being trunky. Haha just kidding I want and
need to work real hard the last little bit to help Sister King get to
know the area and the people. Plus I love the people here so much
I can't just leave em hanging. I think my goal this transfer
is get members present at as many investigator lessons as possible.
Honestly I just forget to call and invite them so we hardly get any
members coming out with us. But we have so many sweet investigators
that sincerely want to learn more and the members could really help.
Hey! When are
y'all gonna come to Louisiana so you can meet all these cool people?
Here's a great idea! Let's just all move to Baton Rouge. Aw man, dream
come true. I've even adopted two children while on my mission so we
already got family here! Haha I'll explain. At church Heather-Marie
and Alasia like to call me mama for some strange random reason and drag
me around everywhere with them. It's hilarious! I'd tell ya a funny
story but you'd have to be there otherwise it'd make no sense. It's
funny, half the people in the ward know I go home pretty soon and the
other half think I have a while left. I love this place so much.
Anyways, oh my
here's the sweetest miracle. I like to call it our transfer miracle
because if we hadn't gone to transfers we wouldn't have ever met this
couple. Here's the background. So Wednesday we go to transfers and
what not and on the way home I think, "Hey we should go to walmart!"
because we haven't been grocery shopping in weeks and I don't want to
starve my poor companion. So fast forward to the end of shopping.
We're using the self check out machine to get our stuff and this couple
squeezes past us to get behind us in line.
They turn to us and say, "Are y'all Mormons?"
So of course we say, "Yeah!"
"Oh cool! We saw y'alls name tags and figured you were."
"Have y'all ever talked to missionaries before?"
"No.."
"Can we give y'all a Book of Mormon?"
"Yeah, we'd love one." And we explain a little about it and how it's another testament of Christ.
"Aw sweet! We'll go read it tonight!"
"Can we come by and teach you more about it?"
"Yeah. Can y'all come over tomorrow?"
And
then we get their info and what not and that was about it. We called
them the next day but they were at work. So we went back on Sunday and
were able to teach them the restoration. It was a real good lesson too
and I think they understood everything too! Aw man, they related to
Joseph Smith because they've been to so many different churches and have
seen how they all teach kinda the same things but they're all
different. They're really interested and want to find out the truth for
themselves so it's just really cool. We didn't even get the chance to
invite them to church, Melissa just turned to BJ during the lesson and
asked, "You want to go to their church this sunday?" Aw man, so cool!
I'm so excited for them. It's
so sweet because I've never taught a couple that are both interested.
haha and the funniest part of the lesson. Melissa says, "In the Baptist
church they believe Jesus had blonde hair and blue eyes. In y'alls
pamphlet his hair looks blonde!" Super random and funny. We just said,
"oooh we've never noticed that before." And moved on.
Before I got to go I just want to share a quick scripture with y'all. 1 John 3:18 "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in
truth." Always remember,
actions speak louder than words. The scripture makes me think
about something we were discussing in ward council yesterday. Our ward
has a big problem with transportation issues and getting people to
church. We were talking about how we need to assign certain people to
pick up others, and yes it can be frustrating at times because we'll get
there and they won't be ready or don't want to come. But we just have
to keep doing it until they do come. Brother Richardson from the high
council was there (he's one of my favorite person in the stake) and
he reminded us of the covenants we made to consecrate all we have to the
Lord. I don't know, he went into more detail but it's too much to
write. It's so true though. Our actions speak volumes more than our
words. We have to quit sitting around and expecting
others to do things and go do the things Christ would want us to do.
After all, we already promised Him that we would.
Love y'all so much! Enjoy your last soccer tournament. And good luck with finals, Sarah!
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