This week Sister Fuller and I have a member meal EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!!!! It's CRAZY! In order to have success, all you need to do is love the people. When they see that you love them and everything you do is to help them, they open their hearts to you. I know almost all of them by name. The ward has shrunk, because it's practically a family ward for the residents at Dartmouth, we have lost around 55 members!
Today in my studies I read Alma 8. Alma goes to Ammonihah and is REJECTED badly! He sees that "Satan has gotten great hold upon the hearts of the people" and prays that their hearts will be softened and that the spirit would flow in the city! The people spit on him and reject him.
Sounds a lot like all the people who shut their doors on us, thinking that they know what we believe. (yet I love them anyways)
Alma then leaves the city and is full of disappointment.
An ANGEL comes and tells him to GO BACK!!! So he RUNS back to Ammonihah, enters through a different way, and shows up at a member's home, Amulek.
Amulek lets him in and feed him. Alma states his purpose and prays for the house and the food (just like missionary life! I do what Alma does!).
TOGETHER they do and preach the word in the wicked city, and find more success after effort and persistence. (this will soon happen in this ward)
Little happens where the members don't help, and by getting the members help you unlock the doors to the hearts of the people. Just like Alma, I am trying to get the members involved, and it's working!! We had 14 referrals last week! 1 new investigator! Things are progressing!
Before I came out on my mission I knew I could love people, I did love a lot of people! But now it's out of control! Every person I meet I feel connected to, I want what's best for all of them. There really is another mantle you put on yourself when you become a missionary, your ability to love and forgive skyrockets. Every member meal we have is great. I love getting to know the people here. I love watching the Lord expand my abilities, he stretches me and molds me. I am His took on earth!
I keep thinking about how it'll be when I see Jesus Christ again. I love thinking about it! In the introduction to the D&C it says "in these revelations one hears the TENDER but FIRM VOICE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, speaking anew in the dispensations of the fullness of times" He is the Christ. He loves us, more than we can imagine, because HE KNOWS US. When He was suffering in the garden, I know that every one of us went through his mind individually. He pictured us, and saw what we would each go through, then He suffered it with us. He knows how we feel because He went through it himself. His ability to love, forgive, and see people and their divinity is something I strive for. I know He lives. When I see Him again, it will be as the Nephites in 3 Nephi 11:15-19. I will fall at his feet. I want everyone to know how much He loves them. I want them to know that through Jesus Christ, all things are possible.
On another note, we caught a mouse. By catching a mouse I realized that that mouse/rat thing we killed last week, was actually a RAT. My stomach DROPS every time I realize that. Gross... Last weeks rat was so big we could've baptized him. Just dunk him in some water or something... Haha...
Here's this weeks kill:
{We kept him and ate him for dinner because we ran out of money to get food.. JOKE!!! Never would I EVER...
A senior couple dropped one of the other sisters off for exchange this last week and inspected our home. She wrote the president about our rodent problem, and how our home is the perfect area for them to grow... EEEKK. So nasty. So we'll see if we move or not.}
{Sister Fuller and I spend more of our days "downtown" in White River Junction. That's where most of the people we talk to are.}
{Sonya (Jodi's daughter), Pig Pig, and I!}
{I FINALLY got above the trees! These are the "mountains" everyone talks about.}
{Thank you mom for the packages this morning!!! I finally have a fleece blanket! I've been wanting one of these!}
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