Last Thursday we had
interviews with President Cutler, and my companion and I got permission to go
to the Chicago temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D What a joyous experience it
was!!! But in order to go to the temple we had to move our P-day to
Thursday, or the day we were going. So instead of having p-day on Monday
we had a regular proselyting day and we went out to find new
investigators! The first part of the day was pretty hard and my companion
had a few discouraging moments but we said a prayer to help us find someone who
needed us that day and the Lord did bless us. In fact, right after our
prayer we visited with Kathy, who has been really struggling physically and we
were able to say a prayer with her. Then we went to go contact a referral
in an apartment building. The referral didn't answer the door but as we
were walking out we met a lady with a parrot on her shoulder. We started
talking with her and she said, "while I have you two ladies here, how
about doing a bible study." It was so neat because in our planning,
Sister Ormsby and I had talked about starting up a scripture study class to
help us find but hadn't done it yet. She told us that she just wants to
learn more about the bible right now but perhaps that will be a good way to
start teaching her. Her name is Lydia.
We also got a new investigator,
Bonnie. She is so sweet! She is an elderly lady, who loves learning
about God. She was Lutheran and then got kicked out of her church so she
joined the Baptist church and now isn't currently going to church. She
loves little children, and taught early elementary education for a long
time. She told us that she misses them. Bonnie has such a desire to
serve and to give! She tried to give us money but we said we can't, so
she offered us refreshments, haha. She is a little concerned with baptism
because she has already baptized twice and thinks that it would just be
silly to be baptized again. We taught her about the importance of being
baptized by proper authority and committed her to read and pray about the Book
of Mormon. We were able to meet with her 3 times this week and her
reading is going well.
Anyway, we had a lot of
little miracles this week but one of the greatest was that we were able to go
to the temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D It was such an amazing experience and
one that I will not forget! I was able to feel the love of those that
were with me as well as the love of those I could not see. What a special
place the temple is! Sister Schrauth, a woman in the branch took us, and
also the youth in the branch came. I will have to send you
pictures.
Well, I am out of time.
Love you! The church is simply true!
