Monday was a fantastic p-day!! After we did a lot of walking around, getting lost a couple times but managing to find the people we had planned to see. Some were home and others were not. Towards the end of our evening we had meeting with our bishops see what we could do to support him and his plan for the ward. He really wants to push missionary work because he feels people have been slowing down and they had seen such a good year last year and they are not even close to reaching their goals this year. He gave us some awesome ways we could help.
Tuesday we saw the Metz family, who is a recent convert and less active happily married with a child. They have a goal to be sealed in the temple this December. We are working with them so they can feel ready to go. We are super excited for them!! We had dinner with the Judd family. They are an awesome couple who just got married last year and are also going to get sealed soon! They are both converts and found the church in the military. They are a spectacular family and a real testimony builder. We also had our first lesson with the Cruze family! Man sister Cruze is from Germany so she has the German slang, passion and energy. Brother Cruze is more quiet and tender hearted. Sister Cruze was a convert and they both have a desire to come back to church. They are meeting some stumbling blocks so we have been taking the lessons slow and they have been coming to our Book of Mormon classes and that has been helping. We took a member from our ward and that was awesome.
Wednesday we took sister Rodgers (our RS president) to a less actives home named sister Morrison. She has such a strong desire to come back to church but her work schedule is getting on the way. She is the provider right now as her non member husband is out of work. She has been working so hard to provide for her family and she has been trying to keep up on her prayers and scripture study. We were able to talk with her about how important the Book of Mormon is in our life. We challenged her to invite her husband to read it with her, so we will see how that goes. After we met with sister Hayth, a recent convert. We had a really spiritual lesson with her about testimonies because last week we had a fast and testimony meeting and she just didn't know how people just got up there and spoke. We talked about what a testimony is and why we bear it in front of the congregation. Ne of my favorite part about bearing a testimony is the knowledge of my sins being forgiven. We asked her on the spot to bear her testimony to us and she did a fantastic job. I know I have taken for granted my testimony and I invite you all the cherish yours this week as you wrote it down or share it with someone.
Thursday we had a zone meeting and we talked a lot about our self worth, self confidence and they "why" in why we are still out on a mission. The missionaries did a good job in their trainings and I learned a lot. After we got to go see sister Doolittle with sister Rodgers again. We had another great lesson with her about the Book of Mormon. We were able to read the introduction with her and further explain how this book can help her feel of god's love and find peace as she is healing from the death of her mother. She also came to church this week which was awesome!! On Friday we were able to do our weekly planning and after we were able to see a lot of findings we had set up and we did a lot of service that evening for a less active. On Saturday the big storm was suppose to hit us so our mission president said we couldn't leave our homes. Well by 12:00 nothing was happening so we got a member to pick us up for our correlation meeting with our ward mission leader. We had a great meeting with him and his family took us back home after. Our mission president gave us the go ahead to get out and work a couple hours later so we were able to make it to our lesson with brother cherry, a less active and his daughter katelyn who isn't a member. We brought sister Thomas, the primary president and her daughter who is the same age as kateyln. We had a good lesson with them and we challenged her to pray about being baptized. Her father wants her to join, but her mom is more against it.
They came shortly after to our ward harvest fest party and we were so happy they came because it seemed like they had a good time. A lot of our less actives came out to this event, and we had a good turn out from our active ward members as well. It was a success and sister Frisch and I had a blast meeting so many more of our members and eating lots of popcorn. Sunday was a good day as well. We took out brother winks, our ward mission leader to go trackting with us and to try by some less actives. We didn't find too much success, but he told us her loved coming out with us and it was exactly what he needed. I definitely know Heavenly Father is aware of our members and any member of his church that wants to go out with the missionaries. Even if we don't see any miracles I know the members are blessed for their efforts, because no effort is ever wasted when it comes to preaching the gospel and building the lord's kingdom. All we have to do is our part and show Heavenly Father he can trust us with his work. Love you all. Have a wonderful week!
