week 52 - I love my companions!

April 12, 2010

Hi Everyone!
Wow, what I crazy week has been!!!! Let me tell you all about how training is........it's a bit stressful! haha. I feel more tired then I probably have my whole mission! Except for maybe when I first came out. Well let me tell you a little bit about my greenie, her name is Sister Anderson and she is from Salem, Utah. And she is absolutely AMAZING!!!! The first day, we went back to the apartment after transfer meeting so she could drop her things off, we talked about the lessons we were going to do and roleplayed a little bit then she was ready to go! She didn't even want to unpack her things first! She was like "Ya! Let's go street contacting!" hahaha, she stopped the first person we saw, and he was quite a bit awkward and just walked away, but it was good for her. It was good that she jumped right into it! She has just been on fire. And it's sooo true when they say that greenies have a fire they bring with them! So many miracles have happened since she came. First, Pritish's baptism was on Saturday. It was such a wonderful baptism service! President Summerhays was able to come and share their testimony with him, and after we said the closing prayer, Pritish even got up himself to thank everyone for coming and thank everyone for their prayers for him. It was so tender! And his confirmation was great too! I'm so excited for him and his new journey.
One thing I was worried about though, once Pritish is baptized, we have Erin as an investigator (which she is still doing amazing! Erin, if you are reading this, you are stinkin awesome!!) but other then that, our teaching pool is not very much. We really struggled last transfer trying to find new investigators. BUT, here comes that greenie fire again, we have been able to gain a pretty strong potential investigator pool. We found a chinese boy early last week who set an appointment with us and when he came, he brought a friend with him. So we got two new investigators and they seem pretty cool! We'll see them again next week. Last night, we had a pretty cool miracle too. We had an appointment fall through and I was kind of bummed out because I didn't want to street contact all night for 3 hours. But we went for it anyway and as we were walking we stopped and talked to this guy and girl, the guy immediately was like "oh, you want to talk about Jesus? Ok, let's go sit down!" hahaha, it kind of took us by surprise. He is a nice guy and he wasn't really too serious about it, but he likes to have discussions. But his girlfriend, we believe, was the one who really needed the message. When we started sharing the message of the restoration, she started crying. She told us about some experiences that she has been going through lately and how she's really been needing to find God and feel his love. We really had a great, spur of the moment, lesson with them. They said they are very weary about mormons so they didn't want to set up another time as of yet, but we talked about priesthood blessings and she really wants one to help her out. They also seemed pretty interested in prophets and apostles, so they said they would check out general conference online. I gave them our number, so hopefully she'll want to give us a call soon! It was a great experience, and now of course I understand the reason of why we needed to be in that place at that time. Even if she doesn't become an investigator, that's really what she needed right then. Such tender mercies!
Anyway, sorry I went on and on again about stuff. But missionary work is great. I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week! Guess what, it's almost time to talk to you on the phone again! Time just flies by so fast! Love you!!!!!!
Love, Holly