This week was absolutely fantastic!
The rest of Monday was pretty much just the same as usual.
Tuesday
was really good. We had a really good district meeting about using the
scriptures regularly in lessons. One thing that I really liked was that
we shouldn't be using scriptures to back up what we are saying, we need
to use the scriptures and then back up what it is saying. The scriptures
are direct words from God, so what better source to teach with?!
We
spent lots of the day on the North side of our area. We had a great
lesson with our investigator Vanessa. We had to take her off date
because of her health but she is going to Calgary to have surgery or
something like that this week so we'll see what she says when she gets
back. She is a real sweetheart and we get along really well. Before all
of her health problems she used to coach soccer, so that is super fun!
Anyway, we're just praying that everything in Calgary goes all right so
that we can go forward with her baptism.
We also had a lesson with our
recent convert that got baptized the week before I came to the area. He
is so great and so excited about anything and everything with the
gospel. We are a little worried about his addictions... so we're praying
for that as well. That night we had got to go and meet with a less
active family. The father was one of the coolest people ever. He used to
be a professional MMA fighter, so he taught us some moves. That was so
much fun! They are a really cute family and we saw them at church
yesterday!
We had our last waffle Wednesday at the institute
building this week. School is getting out so we can't do it anymore :( Speaking of finals and stuff I hope that everyone at home isn't too
stressed out! We met with our druggie investigator as well and just read
the Book of Mormon with him. We aren't really seeing much progress in
him but he likes to read the Book of Mormon (who wouldn't?) It was
really nice weather so we walked a lot.
We helped this cute little old
lady, Sister Hansen, move and organize some boxes. That was really fun.
We found this little library box where you are supposed "take a book,
leave a book." We didn't miss out on the opportunity, so we had to put
in a Book of Mormon. If that ended up getting someone interested that
would be a pretty cool story.
Thursday was actually really
difficult. The night before we had the whole day planned out with like 5
lessons. As soon as well set down our planners literally every one of
them called us and canceled... including our dinner appointment. So that
was a huge bummer, but luckily we had high spirits because we just went
off of our ward list and tried to find some less actives or people that
we don't even know. So that was fun! Also, thank goodness for the
Francis' because she said that we could eat with them. They are
seriously the best! We also made some yummy rice krispie treats (here
they are called squares) to give to some of our investigators that kind
of stopped talking to us. Even though the day did not go nearly as
planned, we still ended up being able to have a positive attitude.
Attitude is everything! The mission is such a mind game and so staying
positive is so important!
Friday was great as well! We got to
meet with out less active that we recently reactivated *confetti emoji!
That is really cool to see someone remember the things that they once
knew and just be so happy. She really just told us how happy she was
that she had her testimony back. That night we went and delivered some
of those treats we made... and it worked! 2 of our investigators were
there and we got to talk to them for a bit and we made appointments with
both of them. Sugar works wonders!!!
SATURDAY WAS JUST THE
BEST DAY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! We woke up at 5:30 because we headed up
to Calgary.We got there at about 8:10, then got to talk with and meet so
many missionaries! This is the first time our whole mission has been
together at the same time, so that was really cool! I saw Elder Fellos. He was my FHE brother at BYU, so that was really fun.
However, most
importantly we got to meet Elder Christofferson! He shook all of our
hands before he talked to us. We also got to hear from Elder Martino. It
was a really good meeting. It was really cool to feel the spirit change
as soon as they walked in the room. So happy that we have a living
prophet and apostles! They truly are called of God! Elder Martino
spoke to us first and he talked about how we can better find people and
get more referrals from members and how important members are in
missionary work. That was really cool.
Then Elder
Christofferson spoke to us. He did a question and answer. That was
really cool and I learned so much. Then he talked to us about how important
the Book of Mormon is. He also told us multiple times how proud the
Lord was with us for being out on our mission. And that the best thing
that we can do for our family, especially if they are going through
something hard, is to just stay out here and be a good example. It is so
true. The blessings of being a missionary are plentiful! That meeting
was so good. Then we got to come back and go to a baptism in our
district. Saturday was just such a spiritual high!
Sunday was
great too! We got to speak in our Chinook ward about member missionary
work. The meeting was so good and I think that we really got people thinking
about what they can do as members to help hasten the work. I got to talk
about the talk by Mervyn B. Arnold about rescuing. Lots of the work out
here is finding those lost sheep, so that was really good. I would
highly suggest reading that if you get a chance.
Sorry that
this email is so long and if you got bored I'm sorry. This was just such
a great week and I am so thankful I get to be a missionary!!
Love you all so much and I hope you all have a great week!
Sister King
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