Week 61 - And we'll have fun fun fun....

June 21, 2010

Hi again everyone. It was a great week for us. Lately, it's been pretty rough on the weekends with not a lot to do, but this week it totally changed around and it was a little rough in the middle of the week and SOOO much to do on the weekend! Ready for some stories? Good, I knew you would be.
Let's start with David first of all. As we met with him this week, we talked to him about the Word of Wisdom...which was probably a little premature because he's not sure if he has a testimony of the restored gospel yet.....but it truly was inspired because it helped us know what he needs. When we committed him to live the WOW, he said "Probably not" So that led into a whole lot of other stuff. Basically we told him that if he's only meeting with us just to learn and not to progress towards baptism, then we would have to drop him (not that harshly though) and then he got a little worried and was like "well, I want to learn more and I want to really understand this stuff." Oh ya, he also told us that he knows there is truth in the Book of Mormon but as he has prayed he feels he should stay in his church. That's why we talked about dropping him. So, since he got all worried about it and WANTS to progress, we told him to pray about if he should still meet with us, with him completely understanding our purpose. He called us later on in the week and said he really wants to understand and learn more about the foundation of the church and told us that after thinking about it for a while, he will try to live the word of wisdom. hahaha, he's so funny. He KNOWS the church is true, he's just so scared. I hope this can help him get passed it all.
We had a great day at church yesterday too! Our investigator, Sam, came to church and brought one of his best friends, a girl named Jessie. She is so super cute and they both really liked sacrament meeting! Since it was fathers day, they had to leave right after sacrament meeting, but they both said that they liked it and were excited to come back again. Yay, they also both said that they would try to come to FHE tonight to play volleyball with us (we play volleyball every monday night for the activity....I'm getting better! haha). I'm excited for them! And praying that Jessie wants to learn more about the church too. One of our members (Kira) also brought one of her friends to church. Her name is Liz. Kira has been telling us about Liz for a little bit, she's from Rhode Island and here for the summer and wants to make friends. Kira brought her to FHE last week and then Liz volunteered to bring cookies to FHE for this week. Cool! And she came to church yesterday. We are trying to get Kira to be her missionary and invite her to take the lessons. That's what we have been trying to get the members to do, to get brave enough to make the invitations. She hasn't yet, so I don't know if we'll have to step in but Liz is awesome and we want to teach her too. And then Samantha also brought one of her friends to church. Her name is Maria and she is from Pakistan. Maria has been able to see all the changes that Samantha has made throughout her conversion and she always states to her how much happier she is now and how she wants to find out why. So she came to church, enjoyed it, and told her that she wants to come again. Yay!!!! Prayers are being answered!!! I've been praying to teach some more girls, because I feel like we've been teaching so many guys lately. And now there are 3 potentials! Thank you Heavenly Father.
Last little thing I wanted to mention. We had zone conference on Friday and it was probably one of the top 3 I've had so far! In the beginning, President was talking about the last couple days that led up to Joseph Smith's martyrdom and then he sang acapella to "A Poor Wayfairing Man of Grief" Wow, it was wonderful! The spirit was so strong in the room! He gave us all a copy of his talk to us too, so now I can remember it forever! Now here's the final funny thing I'll write about today that happened at zone conference. Every zone conference after lunch, Sister Summerhays does scripture mastery with us. She says a reference, whoever raises their hand first gets to recite it, then the companionship gets a candybar each. I usually get very competitive with this! :) So we had won quite a couple candybars and then the final one came. Sister Summerhays just asked " Who wants to do something amazing?" Sister Dewey raised her hand and said "me and my companions will say the Living Christ proclamation" hahaha. so we all did (we say it every morning in companion study) and after we got done, President got up and gave us $20 and said "Wow, good job! I'm buying you lunch tomorrow!!!!" hahahahahahahaha, Sister Anderson gladly ran up to go get it! It was so funny! Good things come to those who work hard!! :) We also all got another candybar too.
It's been a great week. This next week is Sister Dewey's last week of her mission so we are praying hardcore to have the best week ever for this transfer! If you would like, please pray for us as well. Please pray that we can find 5 new investigators this week and have 5 member present lessons and stay busy all week long! Thanks for all your help. I sure do love all of you! Have a super week yourselves! And keep spreading the gospel to everyone!
Love, Holly