9-10: Great
9-11: Good
9-12: Happy
9-13: Great... and tired
9-14: Exhausted
9-15: Sleepy
SHE'S HERE!!! MY THIRD COMPANION!! THE TRIO INSPIRED BY GOD!!! Good news is, she's awesome, super easy to live with and be around, is humble, had wonderful ideas, and is ready to WORK WORK WORK!
Her name is Sister Sowards, from Provo! She loves the area, but how can you not?! It's beautiful! She says that Sister Fuller and I never forget that missionary work should be fun. Which I am a firm believer in.
Missionary work IS fun, even though it's challenging.
I feel calm and at peace.
Or maybe just REALLY TIRED... I am gaining muscles from all this heavy lifting we have to do.
Earlier today we moved a lady and packed her ENTIRE HUGE MOVING TRUCK in an hour and 20 minutes.
Fall is in the air. We are picking tons of pumpkins and eating lots of soup and homemade cider. That stuff is so good.
WE HAD CANNED BROWN BREAD AT A DINNER THIS WEEK. HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF CANNED BREAD!?!?!?! DON'T EAT IT!!! You open it with a can opener, shake it onto a plate, and microwave it. Sister Fuller was up in the early hours of the morning SICK because of it. All bad.
We had three lessons as a trio this week. It requires a lot of tongue holding and taking turns, which is good for me! Everyone already loves Sister Sowards, which makes me SO happy.
Wednesday night we had the craziest thunder storm I've ever seen in my life. We were driving home from the church and there was thunder and lightening SURROUNDING US. Trees were fallen all over the interstate and all the power went out. We were able to use candles in our apartment because of it! It was insane! The sky was having a seizure! I wasn't sure if the second coming was happening or what, it just freaked me out. Everything was so dark.
Saturday the missionaries in the other ward had a BAPTISM!! We got John to go to it. As we were walking to the font, one lady turned around to John and says pointing at him "YOU'RE NEXT!" John hasn't talked to us since.
NOT GOOD!!
Saturday we had the chance to go to a BARN RAISING!!!!!!!! I HELPED BUILD A BARN!!! It was like a ward party.
Miracle:
The zone leaders called a wrong number. It was this man who had a daughter who was interested in the church. He gave the Elders her contact information. The Elders called us and gave us her info. Turns out it was Carolina! Our new investigators (SUCH A MIRACLE) from last week!! They are ready to accept the gospel! It would be INSANE if they were to be baptized, and it's definitely not out of the question! It could totally happen! The Lord is helping us so much. We are putting everything on the table and are doing our best to be EXACTLY OBEDIENT and it is showing! Little miracles every day help me to know that things are OK and that good things are coming.
We are encouraged to go to institute (we are so lucky we have it, lucky for us we are at Dartmouth!) and got to go! It was wicked nice to be taught instead of teach for a chance. We got to know the students in our ward a LOT better, and most of them have friends who want to know more about the gospel. We are studying the four gospels. During our companionship studies we always find questions that we don't know the answers to, there are so many corners of our doctrines that we don't know. Many of our questions were answered in institute, and my testimony was strengthened.
I love asking questions. Sometimes I feel like people are ashamed that they don't know everything about the church, and are even scared to tackle the questions they don't have answers to. They shouldn't be ashamed, because having questions is a good thing! We don't know all there is to know, God will teach us line upon line all His doctrine! I love asking Him questions and seeing Him strengthen my faith as I try to find answers. helping investigators find answers to their questions helps me to know that I can do the same. Everything I teach people I should also do myself!
Something that is finally making sense to me is when Christ repeatedly says "The Father in me and me in the Father and we are one" (something along those lines). It always confused me. People would say, "they say that because they are one in purpose." Which I didn't doubt, I just didn't understand. 3 Nephi 19:23 was the answer to my question. Christ is teaching the Nephites about the Holy Ghost as He is praying to The Father. I love this chapter so much! I love that they KNEEL ALWAYS! It's remarkable! Christ is the advocate of Heavenly Father. He has the authority to act in His name. When we receive the Holy Ghost we do the same for Christ, because His spirit is with us. Christ reflects everything Heavenly Father is. When we take upon ourselves the name of Christ, we are covenanting to reflect Christ, and have the ability to do so through His spirit! Hopefully this all makes sense... It made sense to me!
{BARN RAISING!!}
{IT'S REALLY GREEN HERE!!! Look at all the cows.}
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