It has rained buckets the past week!! Makes tracting--well,
interesting.......
Hoosier: A Kentuckian gone to Detroit who ran out
of gas.
The above definition comes from a less active sister in my ward.
We met with her earlier this week. We are having dinner with her tonight! She
is fantastic and hilarious. She told us all kinds of crazy stories about the
ghetto and drug busts when she was a police officer. She just says what is
exactly on her mind. She loved when she had a calling and was active when she
did, so we talked to her a lot about service. We are hopefully going to teach
her the lessons for "practice" and hopefully she will come back to
church, because she is fantastic and has such a good perspective on life!
This week we went on two more exchanges with the Clear Creek and
Highland Sisters. I would just love to serve in either of those areas. All of
the sisters I went on exchanges with this time around have a really good
understanding of what it takes to be a good missionary. I love getting to know
the other sisters and learn from them as I go. I especially love the Highland
sisters because we work really well together and we just laugh and laugh and
laugh! That is one thing that I love about being on a mission. The whole point
of this life is to have joy, so I know that if I am working hard 1) I will find
more joy in the gospel and serving and 2) the amount of fun and laughter I
enjoy is equal to how hard I work. It is funny how the hour of personal study
is the fastest hour of the day!
Being in a threesome (triship?) is hard! It is fun because there
are three of us to study, plan and teach, but that is exactly why it is hard.
Sister Cordner and Sister Ware are both really strong teachers, so we pray
extra hard for unity and the Spirit as we teach so as not to overwhelm those
who we do teach. It is strange, because sometimes I am quiet...... It is a new
skill I am trying to learn......
The package from home was so sweet and so perfect!!! Everything
in it MADE MY DAY!!! My companions were SO jealous, but so excited when they
saw the 5 Guys gift card. I don't know how I got so lucky.... but I love you
all so much!! I love being able to mark in my own copy of the General
Conference Ensign. I never expected to be so excited to read conference talks,
but they are the BEST! I just love having modern day prophets and so much
revelation that is all so applicable to my life!!!
We went and taught the C. girls this week again (their mom was
baptized about 6 years ago, but doesn’t currently attend church.) They are in
very poor living conditions right now. It is really sad to see Sister C. and
her five girls struggle. We were teaching our lesson and her boyfriend and some
other strange boys/men came into her home. The Spirit left upon their arrival
and all three of us were prompted to leave. We said a prayer and got out as
fast as we could. I have been worried about those young girls all week because
of all of the circumstances regarding their living situation. We
called President Cleaveland (He is here now!!) to see what exactly we should do
about the situation. I already love him. I could just feel his love for all of
the missionaries as he spoke to us over the phone! I am really excited to meet
him in person on Friday!!
We have been teaching a Preach My Gospel class in Sunday School
the past couple of weeks. This Sunday was our last class and it was on how to
be a better member missionary. All of the missionaries in our ward spoke
in sacrament meeting as well (I spoke on the Book of Mormon). It was
so fun to see the ward get so excited about missionary work!! I have already
seen a change in their attitude. As a companionship we are actually doing a
finding fast this fast Sunday. I cannot wait to see the results! In fact, this
Sunday we got two new investigators already!! One is a 17 year old boy named
Cody-- who said he was searching for the truth and wanted a relationship with
God, we invited him to be baptized at the end of our lesson and he SAID
YES!!!!!!!! The other is a sweet sweet older lady named Dorothy. We can’t
really tell where teaching her will go, but we can tell she already has a
strong love for the Book of Mormon! Heavenly Father is real and he answers
prayers. I am just so grateful that I have the opportunity to be in these
people’s lives at this time.
Transfers and coming up and rumor has is that my trainer is
probably going to be transferred into an area with another Sister Trainer
Leader. So I might get another trainer (
which would be fun, cause two is better than one, right?!?) So anyways, I guess
we will see in a couple of weeks.
Being a missionary is hard. But I love it! I love serving and
teaching! It is so cool to see how the Lord works through me by means of the Spirit.
The church is true and I love it!!!!!!
Love you all,
Sarah
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