Wow! It has been
such a crazy and great week! So winter so far has been nothing like
Marquette. The temperature has been staying pretty much in the
30's.
A lot happened this week
but I will try to give you all the highlights.
On Tuesday we had a very
unique lesson with a lady named Joy. She is a less active member of the
church and the Elders told us we should go and see her. The thing is she
only speaks Laotian so we could not communicate with her. She invited us
in and gave us some sticky rice and invited us to sit down. We sang
"I am a child of God" to her and I will never forget that
experience. It just really touched my heart that the spirit really is the
most important thing in our lessons. She didn't understand what the words
were, maybe she knew the song. I don't know but I do know that the spirit
touched our hearts and that was a good and familiar thing to her. The
rest of the visit we just pointed to her pictures of her family and she told us
their names. We introduced our names and offered to do her dishes, haha.
It was so exciting to me when we walked into the chapel on Sunday and we saw
her and her husband sitting on the chairs and she smiled brightly at us.
It just warmed my heart!
We also had a neat
District meeting where a new convert spoke to us on hope. We have been
trying out these new surveys as a door approach. We haven't used it a ton
yet but are continueing to try it out. We have also been getting a lot of
referrals lately. One of the memers from Fond du Lac has a sister that
lives in Sheboygan so we went and visited with her. It was so fun and she
wants to have lunch with us sometime!
On Wednesday we made
cookies with Sister Boldt and took them to our investigator, Linda, who lives
across the street. It was so good for Linda and Sister Boldt to meet
eachother and now LInda has another friend in the ward!
We had our first lesson
with our new investigator family, Valerie and Alex and their kids. Alex
wasn't home but we taught Valerie the restoration and Ebony, a new convert,
came with us to help teach and share her testimony. Ebony was the perfect
friend for Valerie! She could really relate to her and I know that needed
to happen that way. Valerie came to church on Sunday with her two little
girls, Adrianna, and Annalise. They are 1 and 2 years old so sacrament
meeting was rough but she stayed all 3 hours and enjoyed it! We have a
giving tree, and she offered to help out and also bring a dish for the potluck
Sunday in two weeks! I loved this past fast Sunday! I'm grateful
for fast and testimony meetings. I didn't bear my testimony in sacrament
meeting but I want you all to know that I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father
for His great love for us! He loves you and me and all of us! I'm
so grateful for the blessing to give this time to serve Him and others. I
am in no way near perfect but I'm grateful that our Heavenly Father wants to
help our weaknesses become strengths through relying on Him. This was a
really neat week and I'm grateful that the Lord watches over us. It is so
neat to see not only His hand in my life but His hand in lives of those we work
with and meet everyday. I love you all!
Really quick I have to
tell James about Thaina and Yu! I met our investigators Thaina and Yu for
the first time this week! They are so wonderful! Thaina is from
Brazil. Her brother is a member and she really looks up to him and her
mom is not but she wants to send missionaries to meet her mom. We taught
them the plan of Salvation this week. Yu is her friend and he is from
Japan! :D He said he lived in Utah for awhile as an exchange student so
he gets excited to meet anyone from Utah! We ordered a japanese Book of
Mormon for him. He was excited to here that you served in Japan,
James! James do you have anything I should know for our japanese
investigator? Can you teach me a cool phrase I can say to him?
Well, I have to go now! Love you! The church is limitlessly
true!
